Author Topic: There is no fact, there is only opinion and standard.  (Read 1053 times)

i feel like a lot of people are going to call me stupid for this but whatever

a while ago i had a thought that there is actually no such thing as definite universal fact, and that things are only true by a certain or multiple standards.

for example, from kindergarten (i hope) you've learned that 2 + 2 = 4. some people joke that it's 5 or 3 or 6 and for some reason fish. in other planets or dimensions or whatever other space some kind of beings live in, 2 + 2 could actually equal fish. the answer to 2+2 is not a fact, but indeed an opinion that is only fact according to human math standards.

the theory itself, though, creates sort of a paradox as it cannot be universally true either. though a way to think of it is that the theory goes by the standard of what humans call opinion, and by how we communicate with each other.

thoughts?

I suppose this is correct. Never really thought about it though

I realized the same exact thing not too long ago.

Just because it's familiar to us, doesn't mean its familiar to all living beings that exist.


I always thought about this

Problem is, you don't know what those are.
i'm pretty sure my point can still be understood

Facts don't exist, and that's a fact.

Wait...

there is no emotion, there is peace


There is only fiction

I have always and will always operate within the premise of modern science.

I have always and will always operate within the premise of modern science.
a lot of people are/will but it's still a neat thing to think about.

2 units plus 2 units always will equal 4 units.


Every loving where, all the loving time.

('Cept for alternate universes, but they're just messed up.)

Your opinion is wrong

No 2+2=5 my dear Winston