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Old 28-May-2006, 21:36
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Default Re: The misued word....absolute

Hello PLJ

You could make a distinction between "relative" and "absolute" truth:

1. It's hot.
2. Lydia is a very strange girl.

— the truth of each statement is relative to whichever scale of hotness/strangeness you choose to employ.

3. The moon orbits the earth.
4. Two plus two = four.

— both statements are absolutely true.

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