Truth: relative or absolute?

Is the truth relative or absolute? How you answer this question shapes the way you look at the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMzhzqoQh8c

Well on a larger scale we probably don't truly see reality, so everything is relative.

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/does-reality-exist

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A DNA helix
Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
KEVIN DICKINSON
09 August, 2019
Donald Hoffman theorizes experiencing reality is disadvantageous to evolutionary fitness.
His hypothesis calls for ditching the objectivity of matter and space-time and replacing them with a mathematical theory of consciousness.
If correct, it could help us progress such intractable questions as the mind-body problem and the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

This belongs in the Philosophy forum.

If God is real and I'm not being allowed to perceive reality the way it is, I reserve the right to punch him in the face.

For the Reading Impaired Here is a Vid on the Same Topic.

YouTube video