Absolutely Truthful Arguments - the difference between absolute truth and relativism
Date Submitted: 10/23/2004 12:31:00
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (911 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (911 words)
"I have absolutely no right to be explaining philosophy," I declare.
You exclaim, "Absolutely!"
These above uses of 'absolutely' are a form of an intensity adverb and "emphatic agreement", respectively, and in society, the aforementioned uses would never be questioned because I have no background in philosophy, I have never taken a philosophy class, and all I know is that Plato's name is as notorious in college as play-dough is in elementary school (Sparkes 205). After …
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…that these two arguments are polar opposites. No one should make a decision in an argument based on opinion without knowing all the options. In between these two arguments are other philosophies such as pragmatism and skepticism. The main arguments in this paper do not have a middle ground in which they agree; however, they do have a middle ground on which they both base their philosophies. This is the acceptance or denial of truth.
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