Absolutes are a tricky thing. Can anything ever be absolutely something? You know like “yes” or “no”, true or false, black or white, above or below, light or dark, empty or full, close or far. We frequently use words like always, never and forever. Is that because we just want to emphasize our point? If not then why else do we communicate with such ignorance and fallacies?
However even a simple statement like “Nothing is absolute.” is absolute and thus…wrong? What I’m getting at here is that it is difficult (not impossible) to say with any kind of certainty that something is either always or never. Just like in quantum mechanics, certainty is not absolute¹. You are only certain of the current moment, nothing further². It is probably human nature to try and extrapolate our current experiences to explain and predict future ones.
Spend a day examining how many times absolutes enter into play around you.
¹Yet another absolute statement. How do we fix it? We must acknowledge that sometimes certainty is absolute. That in turn violates the initial premise. Paradox.
²Isn’t the assertion that absolute certainty of the current moment a fallacy in of it self?
