There is truth, all truth is absolute, and truth is knowable.

"I will not vote if you won't either ;)" Excellent, thankyou very much. I have found the hole in PRO's argument, and it's quite simple, voters. I will start by answering the questions my opponent has posed: "Claim: There is no truth. Counter: Is THAT a truth? " MY ANSWER: Probably not. "Claim: You can't know the truth. Counter: Then how do you know THAT? " MY ANSWER: You don't, so don't make such a ridiculous claim. "Claim: All truth is relative. Counter: Is THAT a relative truth? " MY ANSWER: It hasn't even been shown to be a truth, much less a relative truth. It may or may not be, though. "Version 2: There is no absolute truth. Counter: Is THAT an absolute truth? " MY ANSWER: Perhaps. It appears to be a paradox, but the paradox disappears when we realize the statement that "there is no absolute truth" is not necessarily to be taken as true. Now that I've answered these questions, I will go on to my opponent's longer points: PRO: "Assume that the claim "Everything is true" would be, indeed, true. It does not work, because then also the opposite of it, "Nothing is true" would also be true. " REBUTTAL: Then don't assume the claim "everything is true" is true. The problem with all of your examples is in the hypothetical questions you are posing. There are varying degrees of truth. PRO: "How do we know whether the truth exists or not? Let us assume that the claim "There is no truth" is true. The problem with this thesis is that it can be countered with one question, "Then is THAT a truth? " And if nothing is true, how can the claim itself to be true? If the claim is true, then we must accept that there are truths. " REBUTTAL: Once again, you are assuming something ridiculous. How can you assume "there is no truth" is true? This is like writing the words "there is no red" in a red pen, and believing it! The problem is again with your assumptions. PRO: "-Truth is found, not invented. It is there, independent from whether people believe in it or not (Gravity existed before Newton). - The truth is true for all. (Regardless of the person, 2 +2 = 4) - All the truth is absolute. Even the truths that affect to be relative are really absolute. "I was warm 10th of June in 2008" may affect the relative, but it is true for everyone, everywhere that I got the feeling of warmth in 10th of June, 2008. - The truth does not change with it what we believe. If the whole world believes that cows can fly, it is still not the truth. - Beliefs can not alter facts, regardless of how sincerely one believes in something. " REBUTTAL: I will agree with all of these statements, bar one, because they in no way prove that all truth is absolute, which is my opponent's burden in this debate. My opponent is mistaken in his understanding of a relative or subjective belief. If you and I were standing in the same room which was uniform in temperature throughout, and you feel warm while I feel cold, you'd be correct in saying it is an absolute truth that I'm cold and you're warm. But there is a relative 'truth' here, because I will go on to say that the room is cold, while you believe it is warm. Both are relatively correct in their beliefs, but neither are absolute in their beliefs, because the room can't be warm and cold simultaneously. PRO: "C: "There is no truth. " A: "Is that a truth? " C: "All truth is relative. " A: "Is that a relative truth? " C: "You can't know the truth! " A: "Then how do you know that? "" REBUTTAL: Once again, these are ridiculous claims to begin with. How about this for a claim: "There are some truths in the world, but not every statement is a truism. Some of them can be known, while some can't. Some are relative, some absolute, some in a little grey-area mid-way. " PRO: "Conclusions: 1. Although relativists say that truth is relative, truth is absolute, can be known, and is unique (eg, if 2 +2 = 4, 2 +2 can not be equal to 36) 2. Sentences such as "Truth is not! " etc. "You can know the truth! " are pieces of rhetorical nonsense, which can be proven wrong with a few words. 3. The truth does not care about our beliefs and feelings. Something is true, whether you believe in it or not. " REBUTTAL: 1. I agree with this, but it does nothing to show that all truth is absolute, which is PRO's burden. 2. I agree, so I wonder why my opponent filled his entire argument with such silly rhetoric. 3. I agree again, but this does nothing to show that ALL truth is absolute, which is PRO's burden. Voters, it was my opponent's task in this debate to show that a) there is truth, b) all truth is absolute and c) truth is knowable. Points a) and c) are obvious enough, and my opponent has certainly shown this in his rounds. But he has done nothing to show that all truth is absolute.