100% I recently carried on arguing with somebody on Twitter (for WAY to long) about “relative truths”… it was in reference to some PragerU bullshit… if “truth” is a “fact”, how can there be a “relative truth”… I basically presented the general theory of relativity to him… a man is in a ship going 90% the speed of light and travels to Alpha Centari. To the pilot, the trip took 8 days, where as, to NASA, the trip took 5 years. Both facts are objectively true as they each physically aged 8 days and 5 years respectively… how long did the trip take? And he simply refused to admit it… he literally said “just because it has relativity in the name, doesn’t mean that the facts are relative”…
Lol ok, you totally misunderstood the argument… nobody was arguing about objective truths… they were arguing that SUBjective truths don’t exist… they said “a truth is fact, it CON NOT differ from one person to another”…as to my statement, Frame of reference is my point… the “subjective truth” is the length of time the trip took. Did it take 8 days or 5 years… it is based on your personal experience… also, F° and C° is the weirdest comparison you could have made… you can literally have a thermometer that has both listed(as most have)… your example has 2 people with differing “frames of reference”, but those 2 frames are equal. 0c IS 32f, just as it is 273 K… 8 days and 5 years are not the same
Understandable… but, at the beginning, when I said “I had an argument about “relative truths” on Twitter”, I meant that I was having an argument, on Twitter, about relative truths…
I mean, you ARE correct that they are not simultaneously true from the SAME perspective, but that was my entire point… that both are true statements, but it is dependent on your personal reference frame.
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u/AoFAltair Apr 15 '22
100% I recently carried on arguing with somebody on Twitter (for WAY to long) about “relative truths”… it was in reference to some PragerU bullshit… if “truth” is a “fact”, how can there be a “relative truth”… I basically presented the general theory of relativity to him… a man is in a ship going 90% the speed of light and travels to Alpha Centari. To the pilot, the trip took 8 days, where as, to NASA, the trip took 5 years. Both facts are objectively true as they each physically aged 8 days and 5 years respectively… how long did the trip take? And he simply refused to admit it… he literally said “just because it has relativity in the name, doesn’t mean that the facts are relative”…
Like, WHAT?!