Assertion: truth | /r/HasProperty | relative
Facets:
value: likewise
type: DEGREE
value: as for social sciences
type: OTHER
value: to complicate matters
type: PURPOSE
value: in some domains
type: LOCATION
value: to the person
type: OTHER
value: to their situation
type: OTHER
value: in this period
type: TEMPORAL
value: to specific problems
type: OTHER
value: to a conceptual scheme
type: OTHER
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: to personal
type: OTHER
value: to social
type: OTHER
value: to society
type: OTHER
value: to culture
type: OTHER
value: to historical era
type: OTHER
value: to language
type: OTHER
value: according to the world
type: OTHER
value: in this case
type: OTHER
value: to the individual
type: OTHER
value: to
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Truth is Relative.
text: To counter this self-contradiction, some have suggested that truth is a relative concept.
text: In relativism, all points of view are equally valid and all truth is relative to the individual.
text: Pilate apparently went along with the idea that truth is relative.
text: Both statements are true, mine for me and yours for you, because truth is relative and subjective in this case.
text: Thus, truth is relative.
text: If so, then perhaps truth is likewise relative or subjective or both.
text: Truth, according to the world, is relative or unobtainable.
text: He offers the belief that truth is relative; appealing to our sense of tolerance and fairness, he keeps the real truth hidden by claiming that one person’s
text: When someone says that truth is relative, what he normally means is that there is no absolute truth .
text: When people say things like “that’s fine if God exists for you, but He doesn’t exist for me,” they are expressing the popular belief that truth is relative.
text: But no one really believes that all truth is relative.
text: The statement “truth is relative” is, in fact, a self-refuting statement.
text: In saying, “Truth is relative,” one states a purported truth.
text: But, if all truth is relative, then that statement itself is relative as well—which means we can’t trust it to be true all the time.
text: Truth is relative to culture, historical era, language, and society.
text: Have you ever been told that truth is relative?
text: Truth is relative inasmuch as it reflects an object not exhaustively but within certain limits, certain relations, which are constantly changing.
text: It may be said that any truth is both absolute and relative.
text: But if that is the case, then truth is relative, a view which itself is untenable and self-refuting.
text: Truth is relative insofar as it reflects the object not fully but within certain limits, conditions, and relationships, which are constantly changing and developing.
text: Allan Bloom wrote in his book The Closing of the American Mind: “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
text: Do you believe that truth is relative or nonexistent?
text: These quotes, giving vague descriptions of truth, point towards relativism — a doctrine instructing that truth and morality are relative and not absolute.
text: If truth is relative, then absolute right and wrong become doubtful and obscure.
text: And if truth is relative, then only subjective and indefinite answers exist for the purpose and meaning of life.
text: Does that include the statement that truth is relative?
text: It would have to, making this statement invalid since no claim to truth can be made by this statement, including the claim that truth is relative.
text: Peterson frequently attacks post-modernists for their views on and , but he shares with them the assumption that truth is relative to personal and social .
text: Alternative theories include the coherence theory, according to which the truth of a belief is just how well it fits with other beliefs, and the social construction view that truth is relative to what people want.
text: There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of,’ according to Bloom: ‘almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
text: Is Truth absolute or relative?
text: If Truth is relative, then no one is ever wrong — even when they are.
text: Truth is absolute and never relative.
text: If we hold fast to the concept that truth is relative, then as individuals we apply a subjective measuring stick to our own behavior as well.
text: This gives the impression some truths are relative or contextual.
text: This idea has two senses: (1) truth is mutable, (often attributed to William James and F.C.S. Schiller); and (2) truth is relative to a conceptual scheme (more widely accepted in Pragmatism).
text: Schiller held that truth was relative to specific problems.
text: It has become somewhat popular to think that truth is relative.
text: Truth, it seems, is indeed relative.
text: To say truth is relative is to make a truth claim that there is no truth.
text: There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth: what things are truthbearers capable of being true or false; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective or objective, relative or absolute.
text: Today we are told that absolute truth does not exist, that all truth is relative.
text: it is true in all cases that all truth is relative.
text: In this period, truth is relative (“I call ‘em the way I see ‘em”).
text: Truth is personal and relative.
text: By a three-to-one margin, adults say truth is always relative to the person and their situation.
text: To complicate matters further, in some domains, truth may be relative or subjective, but the truths that science aims at building are ones that reflect the way the natural world actually works  regardless of one's point of view.
text: Truth is relative.
text: Besides positing an absolute, suppose the statement was true and "truth is relative.
text: If "truth is relative" is not always true, sometimes truth is not relative.
text: In this perspective, which must not be omitted, "truths" are as relative as for social sciences.
text: Thus as long as consciousness is separated by boundaries of self, thus not seeing everything as one, then truth is relative, but when consciousness unite, then and only then can there be absolute truth.
text: "Truth is relative" is a relative truth.
text: If truth is relative and everyone is to believe as such relativism would then be an "absolute" for all.
text: If there weren't, then every truth would be relative.