It's quite obvious that there is objective truth. — Cidat
Why do you say it's obvious? — alan1000
I get the feeling that reality must have existed infinitely long before I came into existence. — Cidat
reality must have non-caused events. — Cidat
It's quite obvious that there is objective truth. But how is it possible? What preceded our existence? And what preceded before that? Reality must have a beginning. I get the feeling that reality must have existed infinitely long before I came into existence. My only answer is that reality must have non-caused events. — Cidat
Why do you say it's obvious? — alan1000
But that isn't what you mean, because you speak of OBJECTIVE truth (ie something which would continue to be true, even if I personally didn't exist.) — alan1000
f you sincerely believe this, any textbook of introductory theology will satisfy your needs. — alan1000
If you are commited to the pursuit of truth, however uncomfortable the consequences, enrol in a philosophy 100 course. — alan1000
Reality must have a beginning. — Cidat
Yes, it is self evident and attempts to deny it using it as a stand, is contradictory and admitting of recognizing it. — Garrett Travers
Also, non-objectivity has no applications, so it's useless even if it were somehow correct. — Garrett Travers
We are, in fact, forced to conclude that the universe is self emergent. — Garrett Travers
That is the only direction in which evidence points. — Garrett Travers
Any detractors you come across, you need to demand evidence of non-material reality, and dismiss any conclusions drawn from ignorance of reality. You should be good with that. — Garrett Travers
You can recognize something and deny it. So denying a self evident objective reality, while knowing how it looks like and admitting it exists, is not problematic. — EugeneW
That's specifically my point. So what? There's no point in the concept of non-objectivity.So what? — EugeneW
No, we are not. — EugeneW
The evidence points in more directions. There is not one objective reality. There are more. — EugeneW
There is no need for demanding evidence. But if so, a scream suffices as evidence. In full knowledge of reality. — EugeneW
truth is, tiny brains just can't comprehend complex evidence. even tiny increment is Evidence from this lowly dimension. — theRiddler
All this talk about "objective truth" is silly. Objectivity and subjectivity are properties that pertain to a mind. None of the literature on the theories of truth (pragmaticism, coherentism, correspondence, semantic, et. cetera) ever seems to actually investigate this isolated pop-culture idea about "objective vs subjective" truth. — Kuro
Silly is ad hominem name calling and not an argument — magritte
It only suggests that you lack familiarity with the subject, therefore you intend to tackle the opponent instead of the claim. — magritte
Objective truth is a golden dogma and you can stick to it as you will. — magritte
But others are at liberty to question the comfortable surroundings of strict and limiting non-contradiction with excluded middle. — magritte
By 'literature' you just mean standard dogmatic literature taught to undergraduates. — magritte
It's OK, but there is much more to logic, and truth is only a value of a logical calculation in whichever logic one might choose. — magritte
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