Is Truth Absloute or Relative

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JAMAICA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS TRUTH ABSOLUTE OR RELATIVE A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO DR ERICA CAMPBELL IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE COURSE INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES BY ALICIA ROBINSON KINGSTON JAMAICA NOVEMBER 14, 2013. Aristotle defined truth as, "In order for something to be true, it can in no way be false". The Pragmatists, idealists, and Realists have all formulated methods of identifying these absolute truths. The Pragmatists have come up with a method that uses subjective experience and usefulness in determining truth. For something to be a truth under the Idealist Theory of Coherence, the truth must cohere to other established truths Postmodern Relativism The popular view of truth in our culture today that is objective, universal and absolute truth is implausible. Those who hold to it are often viewed with contempt. Postmodern relativists build their understanding of truth along the basis of the naturalistic worldview. Truth then has its origin in human beings. This leads to conclusions that differ greatly from those who hold to absolute truth. They believe that Jim Leffel states that relativism says the truth isn't set by outside reality, but is decided by a group or individual for themselves. Truth isn't discovered but manufactured. Truth is ever changing not only in insignificant matters of taste or fashion, but in crucial matters of spirituality, morality and reality itself. Leading postmodern thinker John Caputo writes, "The cold, hermeneutic truth is that there is no truth, no master name which holds things captive." Both men summarize the postmodern belief that objective truth does not exist leading to the conclusion that all truth claims are equal even if they are contradictory. Before we can present the evidences for the existence of God and Jesus Christ,
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