Does ‘yellow’ exist? Perhaps not to a color blind person. Meaning, it is dependent on our human sense of sight to be seen as such. What color is it if a dog looked at it? If a cat looked at it? If say, a yellow bird looked at another yellow bird? All these make such ‘truth’ relative to who/what is viewing it, and as such, cannot be classed as truth.
I see ‘truth’ as not relative to any one or two elements, but as such for ‘all’!!! These things like ‘yellow’ may be ‘true’ for us humans with good eye’s, but they are not ‘the Truth’! As Leela said with ‘12’, here too it is relative to the process used to achieve it… like the senses used to see yellow. Can you hear yellow? Can you feel yellow? Can you taste yellow?
A circle has 360 degree’s… one has to look at the center from all those degree’s. A sphere has many more angles of observation, what does the center look like from all of them?
‘Truth’ should be that which is ‘true’ for ‘all’… from the 1 year-old to the 90 year-old… from the one with a college education, to one in first grade… it covers ‘all’. Otherwise, it becomes ‘relative’ to a certain class and exempt from other classes.
Look at the acorn… when planted and it sprouts, even when it has just 2 starter leaves, it is an oak tree… and in all it’s growth, there is no time that it is not an oak tree, even though it changes shape and character as it grows. To me, this is closer to ‘truth’ then what is called ‘true’ at-the-time-and-place-and-under-this-circumstance.
Truth, by definition, simply IS… and with not one exception.
This is where science and philosophy differ.
