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Originally Posted by Chraeloos
Everything we know, everything we say is based on language. Language in itself is a metaphor. The only thing we can know for sure is math, and even that is subject to our minds metaphors. So, in that way, yes nothing we know is "truth", but it's the closest we can ever get. We have to change things into metaphors because its the only way our brain works.
Have you read Descarte's Meditations? I think you'd get a lot out of it.
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Not sure if i have read that or not Will have to check it out thanks!
maths is just another language we use to describe the universe. the set rules of maths do not apply when we actually apply them to the universe.
how about this - can something be truth if it has never existed?
for instance can we say a circle has ever existed? whilst we cant say that a circle has never existed for sure - the figure as far as we "know" is something like 99.999999% sure that it hasn't.
if we say the definition of a circle is true - then we are saying pure theory is considered truth. well... thats calling a belief truth.
