For dialectics, the Absolute is only the whole movement through various relative stages of understanding, but the progress of knowledge never comes to an end, so the absolute is relative. However, even a relative truth may nevertheless contain some grain of the whole absolute truth, so there is an absolute within the relative.
Perception is relative to the observer, but the existence of an objective world is absolute.
Hegel used the various 'definitions of the Absolute' to characterise the successive philosophical standpoints shown to be in fact relative in the development of the Absolute Idea . Hegel's exposition in the Shorter Logic or in the Science of Logic , or Lenin's annotations on the Science of Logic . Absolute Truth Currents outside of religious fundamentalism. Absolute Truth means an ideal which is completely in correspondence with Nature, a synonym for God. Abstract and Concrete Abstract and Concrete are philosophical concepts concerned with the development of conceptual knowledge.