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Your Little Fickle Pickle
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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:41 pm
Relativism is the phisosophical belief/theory that we can never know if anything is 'true', or in other words, that we cannot ever truly 'know' anything, or have true 'knowledge'.
It seems rather hard to overcome or argue with, and forgive the shortness of this topic at the moment, but I'm slightly out of it.
Anybody out there subscribe to said theory? Any relativists?
I may be one.. but a rather lenient one.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:06 pm
Well, I guess I could say that I suscribe to it, because I"m always asking questions, such as, "How do we know [Insert something] really happened?"
This would mean all of our scientific knowledge is flawed, because we don't know whether tis true or not.
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Your Little Fickle Pickle
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:24 pm
Destinykeeper Well, I guess I could say that I suscribe to it, because I"m always asking questions, such as, "How do we know [Insert something] really happened?" This would mean all of our scientific knowledge is flawed, because we don't know whether tis true or not. Ah, exactly how I tend to act and believe. How can we ever truly know if something is true? Can we? If so, then what proof have we, seeing as just about any sort of proof is flawed in some way, and finding any sort of rock-solid defense for anything seems nearly impossible?
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:01 pm
Ah, I once made a poem about such a thing. It was titled "What is Reality?".
I spoke about how sure can we be that when we sleep, we are awake in our dreams, but when we awake, we are asleep in the "real world". Why must reality be measured by one's own perspective and not that of which is inside of us all? Who says, black has to be black when it can be bright and vibrant? How do we know that our dreams are just dreams, and not the moments where we actually live? When we die, don't our dreams die with us? And when our souls go on, do we not still live in those dreams?
The answer is, there is no reality or unreality, what it is is what it is and nothing more, nothing less.
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:49 pm
You must do the best with what you know ,and aways be on the never ending quest for knowledge. Remember the knowledge you have will aways be wrong or right nothing else. You must accept that some things are just what there are because you have no choice in the matter.Thats how logical thinking works.
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:40 pm
[Josh] Relativism is the phisosophical belief/theory that we can never know if anything is 'true', or in other words, that we cannot ever truly 'know' anything, or have true 'knowledge'. It seems rather hard to overcome or argue with, and forgive the shortness of this topic at the moment, but I'm slightly out of it. Anybody out there subscribe to said theory? Any relativists? I may be one.. but a rather lenient one. Ugh. Relativism is the idea that everything is only known in relation to other things. As in, you can't know what a ball is unless you have things other than a ball to compare it to. In 4 words, there are no absolutes. However, that statement itself is either an absolute or it is relative. If it is relative, then there may be absolutes. If it is an absolute, it contradicts itself. Point in case, while relativism has its merits, it has its flaws, as well. Like almost any other philosophical postion. I myself adhere to moral relativism, but not relativism in most other realms.
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