The 3 Types of Truths

Data Driven Fiction

a polemic with the article by “The World Unveiled”

“The World Unveiled

I agree with what you are saying, but I want to bring attention to some details that might make your point more nuanced.

Religious people do not have different types of “truth.” They all have the same ultimate truth, which they are trying to understand and be closer with, but perspectives often vary on this ultimate truth. For example, say there are two Muslims who believe Allah exists — one of them may believe God speaks directly to them while the other may not subscribe to that view. Furthermore, even though Islam has many sects that differ in their beliefs about God and other fundamental notions of faith, each denomination still connects with Islam, so they still call each other “Muslim.” To put it in another way, the only difference between them is in their understanding of Allah.

The 3 types of truth are:
1. The objective truth is objective because it is not relative to any one person or group, but also that it would be evident by its nature when someone approaches the truth. For example, take mathematical formulas. Mathematics (or any other branch of science) cannot be subjective or relative because it deals with information derived from objective reality. Thus, there is no need to argue about the true meaning behind mathematical formulas because you can just plug in numbers and see if they match.
2. Subjective truth — this is the kind of truth that someone has picked up from his community or society, often without rational basis or justification. For example, if someone believes that the world will end in 2012 because he picked up this belief from his religious community, this would be a subjective truth.
3. Absolute truth — The absolute truth does not change, and it is also one that is inseparable from and eternal and unchanging and pure and perfect (in the absolute sense). Thus, for example, there are absolute truths in mathematics such that the axioms they are based on remain…

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