A parable:
When Truth was born, three good fairies came to her crib, and each one gave her a gift:
- The first gift would make her absolute.
- The second gift would make her objective.
- The third gift would make her deal with reality.
By an oversight, the wicked fairy was not invited, and did what wicked fairies do in such circumstances: she cursed Truth. By her curse, Truth would never enjoy more than two gifts simultaneously.
And thus Truth developed a personality split - into three parts:
As Mathematical/Formal Truth, she is absolute and objective, but does not deal with reality.
As Theologic Truth (where she underwent a further split into many sub-persons), she is absolute and deals with reality, but is not objective. Islamic Truth is different from Christian Truth, which is in turn split into Catholic and Protestant Truth ....
As Scientific Truth, she is objective and deals with the real world, but not absolute. Scientific statements are always approximations to nature.
Borrowed from an online discussion forum, authour's pseudonym: HRG
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