Most people are both right and wrong in their assumptions about truth being relative. They’re right in the essence of their questioning whether the statement “Truth is Subjective” includes itself. They’re wrong because they fail to comprehend the true nature of a relative universe. The idea of a relative universe is based on a relative understanding of truth.

Without this understanding, we cannot truly view a relative universe at its barest form, that is, as relative. We must subscribe to the true knowledge (note, knowledge, not belief, for in a relative universe, one must know, not believe) that the universe is inherently relative. Once one does this, it is feasible that the statement “All truth is relative” is simply obsolete. Because, with a relative understanding of truth, one sees that whatever one knows to be true is true. Therefore, if one knows there is an objective reality that our reality is modeled after and subscribes to completely, then that person’s reality becomes an objective reality. You see that, if one knows that the statement “All truth is relative” is absolute, then it becomes absolute.

However, one does not need to know that the universe is relative. In fact, they can honestly know that the universe is objective, and it will be. That is the essence of relative truth. You see, their logic is flawed on the most basic presumption that a relative truth denies absolutes. In fact, it does just the opposite. It confirms absolutes. However, these absolutes are not absolutes in the objective sense of the term, but subjective absolutes, meaning that whatever one truly and completely knows becomes their absolute. So, indeed, all truth could be relative, and we would not even have to believe that it is.

Cam Colella