There are a few mathematical truths out there that seem to have no real meaning. You cannot properly construct a regular polygon with 65,538 sides using a compass and straightedge alone, but you CAN properly construct a regular polygon with 65,537 sides using a compass and straightedge alone . It's true. But not too many people would find any meaning in that statement. This would imply that certain truths exist that are, well.... unimportant truths. I suppose you could also call these weak truths, or truths that are not mighty, because they lack any real significance it seems.
I often run into a lot of ideas on the internet that imply that everything in the world has no real inherent significance and the only significance that exists is in the eye of the beholder. I imagine if you suggest that nothing has any significance, that would imply that truth itself has no significance. Why would it? Why would you make an exception for just that one thing? Why should I have to assign meaning to that value just because you do? If you say significance is relative, you can't say my holding truth as insignificant is wrong and your holding truth as significant is right. Truth is weakened beyond repair when there is no inherent significance behind it.
So the only way to say that truth is important in ALL frames of reference is to hold that there's at least one thing in this world that has inherent significance. If that's the case, how in the world did truth become the sole attainer of the lofty status of having inherent and not assigned value? Very difficult to explain. I turn to God for that.
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