What are some issues with relativism and subjectivism?
Nothing can be tested.
Nothing can be fixed.
Nothing can be in error.
All of the above.
What is the key issue of relativism and subjectivism?
what is the truth ...
what is right and wrong ...
what is conservative or liberal …
what is consciousness …
What is objective truth?
That which works for the individual.
What seems to occur most times.
What that is it is, and of what is not that it is not.
Whatever one believes to be true.
What are some failed theories of truth?
Pragmatic truth - what works.
The empiricist's definition of truth - what one can sense.
The rationalistic theory of truth - what can be proven by reason.
All of the above.
Why is subjectivism self-destructive?
We are all the subject of something or someone.
God and religion are only a personal truth and can’t be proven or shown to be true.
Subjective truth is only relative to some issues.
An atheist is only subjective to relative truths.
How should the apologist argue against subjectivism and relativism?
They should provide a clear explanation of truth and show the failure of alternative definitions of truth.
They should show that relativists are only relative to themselves.
They should show that subjectivists are only subjective to their own subjective truths.
They should show that belief in a relative version of truth is subjective.