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Post #19 by Turias
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 30 Dec 2003 - 15:02
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050515015326/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=195041
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
Truth is all about perception, if you were going based on the "truth" of the society you lived in and it believed the world was flat, then that would technically be the truth until proven otherwise. To the religious, God is the truth until proven otherwise. To the atheist, God is not true until proven otherwise.


The catch is trying to differentiate between "perceptive truth" and "absolute truth". The two are completely different and yet we use them interchangably.