forum for week of 28 November: pragmatism

I hold a rather pragmatic perspective (like an engineer), so I'm inclined to say what we know of this world are mostly relative truth. As such, I believe that human are incapable of 'perceiving' absolute truth, but merely are convinced by the 'convenient fictions' that follows from the absolute truth.

However, there is one aspect of the universe that can be justifiably understood as absolute truth, I'm referring to mathematics. It's hard to argue against that '2+2 = 4 (being a fact) is merely a convenient fictions' because of the reasoning that such truth is universally persistent and fundamental to the understanding of the world (I raise the idea of universally persistent as a criteria to truth being absolute). Maths, to a large extent, is apriori knowledge, and as such does not come to rely on our perception to understand, but on solely on reasoning; so its hard for it to come to fault where most other knowledge has come unto, being that the majority of them are perceptual knowledge. And as such, anyone who could put 2 and 2 together will inevitably come up with 4 lots of them (unless if someone proved that 2+2=5 somewhere beyond our universe, then we can argue they are beyond our domain of reality, upon which my argument of maths being absolute lies).