I'm pretty fond of relative truth. I loved my first trips to the university library when I first started my studies, and finding out that for every theory, there's someone else who discredits it. It doesn't bother me that 'truth has to fight for its life' because to me, there no such thing as a definite truth anyway.
Caveat: Um, though I suppose exceptions need to be made for creationism, negationism and other unfounded crap. But as a historian, generally speaking, I love the thought that nothing is fixed in time, can always be rediscovered by using a different outlook.
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I'm pretty fond of relative truth. I loved my first trips to the university library when I first started my studies, and finding out that for every theory, there's someone else who discredits it. It doesn't bother me that 'truth has to fight for its life' because to me, there no such thing as a definite truth anyway.
Caveat: Um, though I suppose exceptions need to be made for creationism, negationism and other unfounded crap. But as a historian, generally speaking, I love the thought that nothing is fixed in time, can always be rediscovered by using a different outlook.