What does that mean, anyway?
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This is, in fact, what passed for conversation with my husband on the way to work this morning.
To give you a reference point, I had said that there’s no such thing as an absolute. J thought there might be some sort of cliche about it being ironic or impossible that you could make an absolute statement about there not being any absolute statements.
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So, I cross-referenced “absolute truth” with “logical fallacies” and found something kinda hilarious.
“SELF-REFUTING ASSERTIONS—This fallacy is to assert a truth that either refutes itself or that the act of asserting or arguing for the truth is contradictory to that belief. For instance, the assertion, “Language is too ambiguous to be reliable.” is self refuting in that making the assertion is to use language which is the thing being repudiated.
And “There are no absolute truths,” is self refuting in that it is asserted as an absolute truth.”
I didn’t even realize it when you said that, but, yeah, pretty funny. As for finding a fallacy that deals specifically with absolute truths…coming up empty. I must’ve imagined it.
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After this, I’m going to have to start digging in my lit crit texts to talk about the ambiguity of language.
