Relative Truth Essay

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One version of relative truth is used when people disagree. A person might say

"Well, that may be true for you, but its not true for me." The

implication here is often that there is no real truth to the matter but is

instead a matter merely of belief. You believe what you want to believe and I'll

believe what I want to believe and let's go on our merry way. You can see what a

boon to self-deception a mechanism like this could be. You can believe anything

and no one would have the right to tell you that you can't rationally believe

it. So, one can isolate oneself and one's beliefs from the critical evaluation

of others, because what also goes without saying in this framework of relative

truth, is that no one besides yourself can tell you what is "true for

you". The closest another could come would be to say something like

"It's true for me that it's not true for you". This is never actually

done in the 'true for me' game. But if it were, then since all that the other

would be expressing is what is true for them, even though your beliefs are the

subject of their 'truth', there "opinion" has no real importance

(except to them). It is only true in their world which is inaccessible to you.

You can dismiss it and forget it. We can see that by this view "true for

me" just means that I believe it. The word 'true' is in there to give the

belief its own legitimacy. You may ask: "What does 'I believe it'

mean?". There doesn't seem to be any way of answering this without saying

"I believe it to be TRUE". And so we see that for it to mean anything

to have a believe, we must already presuppose that there is an actual truth or

falsity to the matter that is the subject of the belief. This is another thing

denied by the relativists. He often says, there is no real truth, only what is

'true for me'. It is as if the relativist by the mere act of believing something

can make it true in his/her "reality". And this suggests that everyone

has a different reality....

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