absolute truth
What simply is
Absolute truth is truth that holds universally, regardless of perspective, context, or opinion—what remains true whether anyone believes it or acknowledges it.
The phrase appears most often in philosophical and religious discussions, where debates center on whether such truth exists or can be known: Is there absolute truth, or is everything relative?
In casual use, it often carries skepticism: He speaks as if he has access to absolute truth.
- beyond doubtProven completely true
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
- God's wordSacred religious scripture
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
inerrancy · ontology · logic · certainty · divinity · objective reality · dogmatism · universal law · ultimate reality · universalism · revelation · foundationalism · a priori · first principles · axiology · scripture · logos · non-duality
- truthstruths, facts, fact, reality, verity
- philosophical questionsmeaning of life, free will, why are we here, nature of reality, morality
- Buddhist philosophyemptiness, two truths, non-duality, pratityasamutpada, treatises
- impossibilitiessquare circle, squared circle, perpetual motion, dividing by zero, logical paradox
- divinitydeity, godhood, divine, godhead, holiness
- dogmadogma, doctrine, creed, tenet, belief
absolute truthrelativism
Context-dependent truth doctrine
subjective truth · opinion · subjectivism · moral relativism · cultural relativism
absolute truthuntruth
A false statement
falsehood · falsity · deception · misinformation · delusion
absolute truthuncertainty
State of being unsure
doubt · agnosticism · skepticism · unknowability · epistemic humility