forum for week of 28 November: pragmatism

Like many others above me, I agree that truths are convenient fictions. In the way we are brought up, we tend to percieve different words with slightly different meanings, and therefore truth is affected by perception. The only way to have truth in this sense, then, would be to create definitions for all the words in a language with all of the words in this language. That would create a sort of circularity and cover any loopholes. For example 'Horses has four legs', by using all the words available to us we can cover all of what it is not, and therefore leave out what it is. That, of course is pointless, so therefore truths are never absolute and are mere convenient fictions