How illogical is it to answer this question 'no?' For, if the answer is 'no,' would that, itself, not be an absolute truth? The answer necessarily is 'yes,' because simply answering 'no' to the question means the answer is 'yes.'

The question, for the purpose of debate, might better phrased 'is it possible to know the absolute truth.' Again, though, the answer is 'yes.'

Two examples of 'absolute truth' which we are capable of understanding are 'infinity' and 'time.' There are no exceptions to either. It would seem that two things to which there are no exceptions would truly be the same. Yet, infinity and time are different. The absolute truth called infinity is objective. The absolute truth called time is relative.

The difficulty in accepting absolute truth lies in the subjective factor: our minds. Truth has a multitude of definitions, but they all boil down to 'not false.' 'True' is one of the 'binary words,' with 'false' as its binary mate.

To contend that nothing can be 'absolutely true' is the same as saying nothing can be 'absolutely on,' 'absolutely one,' or 'absolutely yes.' If you believe 'true' to be different, then you are hanging up on a connotative definition that, if boiled down to its residual definition, will mean 'not false.'

The main reason our subjective minds struggle with understanding and accepting absolute truth has to do with a variant word of 'true:' trust. If we do not understand or accept something fully, we tend to not trust claims it is true. We have doubts. Therefore, 'we do not trust it is truth.'

There are natural reasons our minds do not trust without understanding and accepting, the most primal of which is to not be eaten. As our individual intellect develops principles and ethics that override our basic instincts, we begin to understand and accept more things as beliefs. We believe things like extra effort earns rewards, flipping this switch turns on that light, and the date on the calendar. Our minds may or may not trust these as truths because everyone understands and accepts both truths differently and different truths.

There is another reason our subjective minds struggle with understanding and accepting the absolute truths of infinity and time: both absolute truths are mind boggling.

Infinity includes everything. You cannot make it larger by multiplying it by something else, and you cannot add to it to make it any larger. Most people can understand this to some degree. Infinity times two equals

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