• Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Well, it depends on your definition of truth and it could be the absolute truth by definition. A theorem is absolutely true in the same way that “a bachelor is an unmarried man” is categorically true.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      “This line on the map is perpendicular to this other line on the map” is not a statement about the territory.