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If in Philosophy there are......?

no absolutes.....Does that mean there are 'Absolutely no absolutes?'

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    so would my answer be absolute.....absolutely

  • 1 decade ago

    That is an absolute

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In postmodern philosophy there are no absolutes. Not all philosophy. And it's not an absolute statement in and of itself, more a conjecture.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Do a wikipedia search on "Postmodernism"

    It's the branch that says "there are no absolutes". It's a very, very small subset of Philosophy.

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  • 1 decade ago

    No,as this would be an absolute.

  • 1 decade ago

    depends if you live in an infinite universe or a finite universe

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    And the only truth that can be known is that there is no "truth"?

    But then...how can that be true?

    brain...hurting...now...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    thats the premise...

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