Relative truth is subjective reality.

Truth in scientific knowledge is a kind of knowledge objectively reflecting the properties of a perceived object. Relative truth is one of two varieties of truths. It represents adequate information relative to the object.

The difference between relative truth and absolute

As already mentioned, truth can be absolute and relative. Absolute truth is an unattainable ideal; this is absolute knowledge about the object, fully reflecting its objective properties. Of course, our mind is not so omnipotent as to know the absolute truth, and therefore it is considered unattainable. In reality, our knowledge of the object cannot completely coincide with it. Absolute truth is more often considered in connection with the very process of scientific knowledge, which characterizes the progressive movement from the lower levels of knowledge to the higher. Relative truth is a kind of knowledge that does not fully reproduce information about the world. The main characteristics of relative truth are the incompleteness of knowledge and its proximity.

How is the relativity of truth justified?

Relative truth is knowledge acquired by a person through limited means of cognition. A man is constrained in his knowledge, he can know only a part of reality. And this is connected with the fact that all truth comprehended by man is relative. In addition, truth is always relative when knowledge is in the hands of people. Subjectivism, the clash of different opinions of researchers, always interferes in the process of obtaining true knowledge. In the process of obtaining knowledge, there is always a collision of the objective world with the subjective. In this regard, such a concept as delusion comes to the fore.

Misconceptions and Relative Truth

Relative truth is always incomplete knowledge about an object, blended, moreover, with subjective characteristics. Delusion is always always taken for true knowledge, although it has no correspondence with reality. Although error and unilaterally reflect some moments of objective reality, relative truth and error are not at all the same thing. Misconceptions are often included in some scientific theories (relative truths). They cannot be called completely false ideas, because they contain certain threads of reality. Therefore, they are taken for true. Often some fictitious objects are part of the relative truth, since they contain the properties of the objective world. Thus, relative truth is not a fallacy, but it can be part of it.

Conclusion

In fact, all the knowledge that a person has at the moment and considers true is relative, since they reflect reality only approximately. The composition of relative truth may include a fictitious object whose properties do not correspond to reality, but having some kind of objective reflection, which makes us consider it true. This occurs as a result of the collision of the objective knowable world with the subjective characteristics of the knower. Man as a researcher has very limited means of cognition.