The ultimate contradiction

No doubt many of you would have heard it said: “there is no truth”, “truth is relative” or something to that effect. Now quite apart from anything else, this is absolute nonsense. Anyone who argues, there is no truth, or, truth is relative, will inevitably end in error because their starting premise is wrong. Aristotle was probably the first to make this observation when he wrote, “Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.” In other words, if there is no truth, then the very statement [there is no truth] cannot itself be true. And if that statement is not true, then why should anyone listen to anything else you have to say? The funny thing is, this is almost exclusively asserted by those who are supposed to be “educated.” Go figure.