If one says a person is created at conception, and the other says that they are created, rather, when they become conscious, then this is a contradiction. In this case, only one can be right, or neither, since the two answers to the question “When is a new person created?” are mutually exclusive.How about the following answers?
One said life begins at conception. The other one said a person start when they have a conscious brain, and a person ends when their brain becomes unconscious for the final time.
You are correct, I should’ve been more clear in my example that it was three different people saying three different things and then each of them declaring them to be true for themselves.This is not an good example of factual relativism. It would be contradictory for all three of the answers to be correct for an individual. If he was to suggest that all three were true, then none of the statements could be “facts”. He can acknowledge that three are possible answers, but what he holds to be true for himself (relative truth) cannot consist of all three.
A better example of relative truth would be if Person A has a “Mystery Flavor!” Airhead. He then procceeds to share this Airhead with Person B. After both tasting the airhead, Person A suggests it is strawberry and person B suggests it is blueberry. Since neither can fully understand what the other person tastes, it would be impossible to tell the other person that what they are tasting is in fact, something else. So to person A he is eating a strawberry flavored candy and person B is eating a blueberry flavored candy. The decision of flavor may seem like opinion because it is not definite, but this is the foundation of relative truth. Also the term relative truth by definition is contradictory as “JackVK” posted earlier.
The Pope is infallible. The world is flat.The problem in a pluralistic society is that we are often confronted with conflicting moral values. Moral relativism is one thing; factual relativism quite another.
How do Catholics deal with factual relativism?
Yea i guess factual relativism is basing reason on fact, i never really thought about that but i dont thing that people are really able to reason to well regarding facts?Definition of Factual relativism from Wikipedia:
Maybe other members can provide better examples.