The same conversation once occurred between me and a close relative. He eventually came up with an idea that seemed at first to demonstrate that he was right in his assertion that nothing is absolute.
His idea was mathematical. Just look at asymptotes, he told me. See? They are the proof of relativism—the asymptote approaches, but never touches, the line.
But then I realized that my relative had in fact proven that the relative is in fact defined by the absolute (the absolute is the line which describes the asymptote).
This mathematical proof reflects a very important reality—all that can be said to be relative is so only because of the existence of the absolute.
One last thing to consider, and this offers the chance to negate all the lies told in public schools and universities: Truth is not ours to define in our imaginations—it is external to us, to be discovered and observed.
The absolute truth I’m speaking of is not mathematical/logical in nature.
Except for the part about needing to be discovered, I agree that...’Truth is not ours to define in our imaginations—it is external to us, to be discovered and observed’...I just happen to believe that this truth is different for each of us, as God planned. To me this is reflected in our belief in self-evidential truths.
This truth I speak of, is absolute only to the individual. When applied to more than one individual, it becomes a reference. This reference, is what defines the relative.