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Truth is not relative.

According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, by definition, the truth is the property


(as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality, which means in its true state it is absolute.
However, what we see as true or what a person or a culture accepts is merely perception of the truth.
Which in turn implies that although truth is absolute the perception of the truth is relative.
Mathematics even quantifies truth by setting up the truth value system, the statement is either is
false or true, and it does not specify who the statement is true for because of its objective nature. The
statement “truth is relative” is, in fact, a self-contradictng statement. To state that truth is relative is
already a purported truth, but if all truth is relative, then, the very statement is relativ as well— which
entails that the statement is not true all the time.

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