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âContext is allâ (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth?
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... "Context is all" (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth? No such thing as truth. If "Context is all" does it mean that there is no such thing as truth? I start to wonder in what context Atwood made this statement. However, I do not believe that the context when Atwood made this statement is all, or as a matter of fact of hardly any importance when attempting to answer this question but I believe it would be more beneficial to try to answer it in more general terms. I will do this by discussing truth as a concept in different areas of knowledge and thus in various contexts. When it comes to science I, as a knower, can claim to know whatever I have been taught at school, in class, through experiments and so forth. It has been presented to me as a
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