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âContext is allâ. Does this mean that there is no thing as the truth?
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... "Context is all" (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth? It is difficult to imagine a world in which no truths exist, which is perhaps why we are eager to accept some things as absolutely true. As our understanding of the world is limited, it is debatable whether truths which we perceive in our reality can ever be considered absolute. For example, it could be claimed that in mathematics and the natural sciences, absolute truths, such as the existence of gravity or the fact that potassium is more reactive than sodium, subsist. However, the existence of these 'absolute truths' could be partially accounted for by humans' limited capacity and ability to understand and perceive things. An example of our limited understanding is apparent in mathematics. Most high school students learn Euclidean geometry in school, which, for example, teaches us, as an absolute truth, that two
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