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True For You But Not For Me

PragerU: Five-Minute Videos

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Non-profit, Self-improvement, Education, Business, History

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Can something be true for you and not true for me? In other words, is the truth relative or is the truth fixed? How you answer this question shapes the way you look at the world. Renowned philosophy professor Paul Copan provides an excellent road map through this tricky and vitally important issue.

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0:00.0

Is there such a thing as truth?

0:03.0

Or is everything, including truth, a statement of personal opinion or preference?

0:08.9

In other words, is truth relative?

0:12.3

For our purposes here, let's put aside the science angle.

0:15.0

Yes, you can sit on a couch and not appear to be moving, but since the Earth at the equator

0:19.8

is rotating at 1,100 miles per hour, you are from that perspective moving and very fast.

0:25.7

I'm not talking about that kind of relative.

0:28.2

Let's confine ourselves to the more everyday questions of truth, like, does it exist?

0:33.6

Once the answer to this question was obvious, usually confined to late-night discussions in

0:37.6

college dorm rooms, but no longer.

0:40.6

Truth is going through a tough time.

0:43.4

A white woman feels black and represents herself to be so.

0:47.3

She rises in the leadership ranks of the NAACP until her fiction is exposed.

0:52.6

She refuses to go quietly, however, she feels black, and so she is black.

0:57.5

A 69-year-old man in the Netherlands petitions the court to legally change his age to 49, because

1:03.0

that's how he feels.

1:04.9

And of course, seemingly on a daily basis, men and more and more boys, with all the chromosomes

1:09.8

and body parts that make them distinctly male, declare themselves to be female.

1:14.8

And women and more and more girls likewise declare themselves to be male.

1:18.7

They feel they're one sex or the other.

1:21.2

Therefore they are that sex, and we must accept that regardless of what the truth is.

1:26.3

In a viral video of five-foot-nine-inch American Caucasian male asks students at the University

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