Is there absolute truth in society? One can never know if the information provided to him is whole truth, the unbiased and complete account or just another faade for national propaganda. Thus, truths are never quite absolute.

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Have you ever questioned the accuracy of the facts and theories around you? It is true. Textbooks often contain nationalistic agendas hidden beneath revised historical facts. The Japanese have been accused by Koreans and Chinese of extenuating the carnage in Nanjing and the Malaysian peninsula. If knowledge from the most prevalent form of education deviates from the reality, to what extent are the factual accounts we know, the truth? One can never know if the information provided to him is whole truth, the unbiased and complete account or just another façade for national propaganda. Thus, truths are never quite absolute. Absolute truth and facts could be a mere myth.

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Artistic disciplines, such as history and philosophy, are founded on the multitudes of insights and varying perspectives of individuals. Studies in this discipline are more reliant on the understanding of relative truth rather than absolute truths, dependant on the accuracy of one account in comparison to another. Since interpretations are founded on the marriage of preexisting knowledge with the revelation of current knowledge, then it is definite that interpretations would differ between each individual as everyone would have unique experiences in their lifetime. In that case, should a bias account be regarded true because it was provided by a ...

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