Why would you think otherwise? Doesn't everybody take a position? The difference being my position is more humbling, and in process makes me more receptive to learning. A mind that already knows cannot learn.
OK. I'm not sure who you're aiming at here. Whatever, I don't think you're the only humble or receptive person on the planet — not that I think you're saying that — but nevertheless, you believe what you believe and are arguing forcefully, even those you simultaneously believe you might be wrong.
I would argue that is a perversion of the word, an obfuscating profundity designed to dilute the meaning.
Funny, I would argue the reverse.
There cannot be "many truths," there can only be one Truth.
OK. This sounds very much like the Traditionalist position.
If there was nothing in existence, would truth exist?
I'd say yes, as a concept, a possibility (never mind the contradiction of who the heck am I, if nothing exists). There is the potential for something to be true. In which case, truth is a quality we ascribe to things. It's not actual until there's something of which we can say, 'that is true'.
But that will always be itself first, and true subsequently. I exist. That's true. But there was a time when I did not, and there will be a time when I am not. That doesn't make my current existence unreal, or untrue, it's just conditional, but it's no less true. I exist, that's 100% true, but it's not the totality of truth.
And nothing is or can be that totality.
That's the way I see it.
So I don't think there is there is One
numerical Absolute Truth. Rather 'truth' is a singular quality shared by many, to a greater or lesser degree.
Truth itself is a quality; formless, it neither increases nor decreases, grows or decays. It stands before, over and above anything and everything that can be said to be true. It is in a category of one. (Untrue, or false, is not a complement, but the absence of ... )
Your One Truth is astonishingly close to the theist's idea of God.
Is the truth that cannot be spoken, because there is nothing to say. It's what the ancients would declare Transcendental, because no statement or definition of truth, other than it is, can be made. Truth, as such, is prior to anything that is true, other than it's own nature.
They would go on to say what is real is true, and vice versa.
After Absolute Truth comes relative truths. Now we're in the world of things. The cosmos is, that is true, but that truth is conditional, one day it will not be. It had a beginning, it has an end (not to get caught up in the nature of time). But as said above, if something can be said to be true, then it is absolutely true.
There *can* be many perceptions of that Truth, but only one Truth.
Yes, as above, that truth cannot be perceived, because there's nothing to perceive.
(and NO religion, or science, has it in totality!)
But access to it, more or less, by degree.
As a student, an adept, a scholar, a philosopher...how can you not???
In which case we'd have nothing to say about anything, surely? All inquiry would stop, because we know a priori we cannot know?
That strikes me as somewhat nihilist.
What is 'love'? Is it true? It moves man more than 'truth' ... it's what makes the world go round.
But then again, I agree. It is the genius of humanity.
It is the most pure and sincere dichotomy in all of our created concepts. I would need to research, but I would be inclined to think that the advent of "many truths" is a fairly recent philosophical development, that my view (however distorted and abused in the past) is likely closer to the original intent.
I'm not so sure. I rather think it points to the fact that many things manifest the truth, and point towards the Truth of which you speak ... without that, we'd have to agree that truth is a possible, abstract state that may or may not exist.
Humble, and open to learning.
Of course.
Keep in mind Quantum Physics (or any Physics) is but another discipline used to attempt to describe what is thought to be understood, but even Quantum Physicists will tell you there are limits to what their discipline can address, beyond which is speculation. This is another "perception."
Music to my ears! Will you tell the rest that?
No doubt, but a mind is more receptive that hungers for knowledge, not so for a mind that is already full and content to be so.
Yep. I was like that on my first day of school, and fell out of love with that institution before the day's end!
So where do we go from here ... ?
