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Comment by medbud at 24/01/2025 at 10:01 UTC
29 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Just because somebody claims something to be true, does not make it so. This article is just a puff piece promoting a book using Trump's controversial infamy as a launching pad.
It seems to confuse two uses of the term truth, on one hand describing objective truth, and on the other subjective opinion as a belief.
I'm sure it's well meaning...but not really a philosophy paper.
Comment by AllanfromWales1 at 24/01/2025 at 10:01 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Alternately, truth is universal but what people seek to pass off as truth isn't.
Comment by Sudden-Pass551 at 24/01/2025 at 19:52 UTC
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That article might have been 'fine' (though not really) if it had started by defining exactly what 'Mexican philosophy' is—but it doesn’t. Instead, it attributes to 'Mexican philosophy' a vague notion of 'relativism' (or whatever you’d like to call it). This characterization only holds if you follow a *particular* strand of Mexican philosophy, which, like all philosophies produced within a national context, is inherently plural.
Can we truly describe Trump as a universalist? Trump *est nihil*.
Comment by frogandbanjo at 24/01/2025 at 22:02 UTC
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If truth isn't universal then sometimes maybe it also is. Otherwise, "truth isn't universal" would be universally true.
The lesson here, children, is, "There are some axioms you just can't fuck with without everything falling apart."
Comment by [deleted] at 25/01/2025 at 04:31 UTC
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Saying “truth isn’t universal” is a fallacy. Truth is universal although our knowledge and experience can vary, it does not change truth. I thought we had moved beyond Post-modernism at this point.