Absolute Truth Essay

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To understand if there is an absolute truth is investigating what would be the misunderstood that it is the truth. The truth is could be interpreted as conformity with the events and realities; a fact proven or accepted as true; reality or realism. For some people, there is an actual reality, only perceptions and opinions. On the other hand, there are others who argue that if there is or should be some reality or absolute truth. For that reason, finally, there is an authority which decides if an action can be positive or negative, good or bad. This point of view is simply is a situational ethic that leads to the mentality and lifestyle of performing actions or events that overcome feel or think that what are doing or thinking the right thing, …show more content…
Therefore, actions can be determined as right or wrong by those who measure these absolute rules. An example would be the law of gravity. If this is not an absolute, sometimes people might take a step and end thousands of miles in the sky, or could not move the body at all. Also about the confusion that would result if the numbers did not have absolute values. For example 1 + 1 would not always already equal to two. If there were no absolute truths, the world could be a mess. There would be no laws of science or laws of physics, all would lack meaning, and no standards to measure, nor what is right or what is wrong. What disorder would have, but, fortunately, there is absolute truth, and this can be found and …show more content…
They logically not can be absolute negative statements. For example, a person can not say God does not exist (though many do) because to say this, they would need to have an absolute knowledge of the entire universe from beginning to end. When they people them say that there is no God, or that there is no absolute truth (which really, in essence, is the same thing), which can say rationally and logically is that with the limited knowledge, I do not think that there is a God or they could respond with the little knowledge that I have, I do not believe that there is something that is one

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