{"id":16279,"date":"2021-10-11T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:41:38","slug":"ive-been-hearing-this-a-lot-and-want-a-definite-answer-is-truth-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/10\/11\/ive-been-hearing-this-a-lot-and-want-a-definite-answer-is-truth-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been hearing this a lot and want a definite answer: Is truth relative?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AW101121-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AW101121-2.jpg\" alt=\"I've been hearing this a lot and want a definite answer: Is truth relative?\" class=\"wp-image-16275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AW101121-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AW101121-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AW101121-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>I&#8217;ve been hearing this a lot and want a definite answer: Is truth relative?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh man, discussion of that is a whole branch of philosophy. I can&#8217;t settle it for you, but I can point you to the ongoing arguments about it, because answers depend heavily on what kind of truth you mean. Survey of thinking on truth: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth<\/a>, more technical survey: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth1\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth1<\/a>, arguments for and against relativism: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth2\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, discussion of that is a whole branch of philosophy. I can&#8217;t settle it for you, but I can point you to the ongoing arguments about it, because answers depend heavily on what kind of truth you mean. Survey of thinking on truth: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth, more technical survey: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth1, arguments for and against relativism: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-truth2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16284,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions\/16284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}