FreeThinker
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2006
- Messages
- 1,001
- Reaction score
- 34
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
Whilst standing in my kitchen heating a can of chicken soup, it occurred to me that people on the far right AND the far left always seem to be wrong at some level.
Pondering upon my douchebag english professor reading his own poetry during composition II class today, I realized that since poetry uses ambiguous language to evoke emotions about different events to different people ("what does this poem mean to you?"), that must also be true for ALL spoken language, because poems are just words with structure.
SO...
Right and wrong are relative because the english language is relative. All words have different meanings to different people, therefor nothing can be absolutely true to all people.
Our language is imprecise, and so our sense of truth as well as right and wrong are imprecise.
Is math capable of expressing the world absolutely? Or is it also ambiguous? Are numbers just more words for things that exist beyond 1 and 2 and 3?
Pondering upon my douchebag english professor reading his own poetry during composition II class today, I realized that since poetry uses ambiguous language to evoke emotions about different events to different people ("what does this poem mean to you?"), that must also be true for ALL spoken language, because poems are just words with structure.
SO...
Right and wrong are relative because the english language is relative. All words have different meanings to different people, therefor nothing can be absolutely true to all people.
Our language is imprecise, and so our sense of truth as well as right and wrong are imprecise.
Is math capable of expressing the world absolutely? Or is it also ambiguous? Are numbers just more words for things that exist beyond 1 and 2 and 3?