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I agree - 09-11-2005, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve Hanson
Truth is a measure of the distance between our internal model of existence and the way existence really is. ...Any other way of looking at 'truth' simply makes it more complicated than it needs to be and makes it useless.
I agree. That is why I think we should call "absolute truth" something else. Empirical truth and absolute truth are completely different concepts.

Within the realm of science, absolute truth has no meaning. This is because science depends on having an observer and the thing observed. A philosopher tries to convey the meaning of absolute truth by using terms where the observer and the observed are the same thing. The only commonality between these two concepts is our arbitrary use of the word "truth" to describe both.

This mistake in language applies to other areas of science as well. For example, we use the word "mass" to describe both a unit and a dimension. A unit and a dimension are as different as a house and a brick. Houses may be made with bricks, but they are not bricks.

Dave
  
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