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What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (8 children)

That truth is absolute. It's very much subjective. Much in the way right and wrong are subjective.

Life is complicated and things don't fit into perfect little boxes.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Except when it comes to Math. Math is absolute, as long as you ignore statistics.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Gotta ignore infinities too. The axioms they're based on are highly controversial.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    And irrational imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Nah even statistics is perfectly logical and right, but not because truth is absolute (there may be such a thing, but we definitely don't have access to it in that case. [At this time?]), but rather because math defined there to be a way in which all you derive from it is 'absolutely' true. It just might be 'absolutely' true in a system that isn't ours, or isn't useful for answering anything we want to ask...

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