{"id":35711,"date":"2015-07-18T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=35711"},"modified":"2015-07-18T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T20:31:12","slug":"the-maverick-philosopher-on-some-fashionable-confusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-maverick-philosopher-on-some-fashionable-confusions\/","title":{"rendered":"the Maverick Philosopher on some fashionable confusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35712\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-between-the-legs.jpg\" alt=\"ball between the legs\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-between-the-legs.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-between-the-legs-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-between-the-legs-90x71.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Such as, &#8220;<strong>the question of whether there is one god or many (or none)<\/strong> as a version of the question of whether there is \u201cone truth or many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eh?<\/p>\n<p>The Maverick Philosopher shines the bright<strong> sunlight of clarity <\/strong>on this whole mucky swamp of confusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The claim <strong>that truth is absolute<\/strong>, and cannot be relative to individuals or groups or historical epochs or races, or anything else, is a claim about the <em>nature<\/em> of truth.\u00a0 It is a claim about what truth <em>is<\/em>. One who insists on this obvious point is <strong>not laying claim to any absolute or god-like knowledge<\/strong>.\u00a0 I can know that truth is absolute without knowing which propositions are true.\u00a0 It is not polite to say it, but say it we must:\u00a0 the failure to grasp such a simple point is a mark of stupidity in someone like Caputo who has had plenty of time and opportunity to learn something about philosophy.\u00a0 He&#8217;s committing <strong>a rookie blunder<\/strong>, a sophomoric mistake. (emphases added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/07\/john-d-caputos-truth-problem.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole post\u00a0here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such as, &#8220;the question of whether there is one god or many (or none) as a version of the question of whether there is \u201cone truth or many.\u201d Eh? The Maverick Philosopher shines the bright sunlight of clarity on this whole mucky swamp of confusion: The claim that truth is absolute, and cannot be relative&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-maverick-philosopher-on-some-fashionable-confusions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the Maverick Philosopher on some fashionable confusions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-complaints","category-linkage","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35714,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711\/revisions\/35714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}