Comparative and Absolute truth

The comparative and the absolute, what is what and what do they each mean. In this post, I would like to explain my own short theories and pen down thoughts I have been having. Today, I would like to explore the concept of truth. In the world right now, there are certain statements that we make that are absolute statements, for example, that pen is blue or that feather is light, these are absolute statements said independently and singularly. Next, we have comparative statements, for example, the ink is bluer than the sky or the pebble is heavier than that feather. These are comparative statements that cannot be interpreted by themselves and require a comparative mean to estimate their value's worth. These 2 truths are what I am discussing today.

Right now, the slightly more common truth in society would probably be an absolute truth. As society progresses, linguistics and research continue to improve and we are now confident to say certain words with the absolute and whole meaning to them. As we speak, more adjectives are being formulated and the vocabulary list of the world continues to expand. With education and culture, we are now able to confidently say absolute statements knowing full well how others would interpret our statements and understand what they mean. But how exactly were those words created and how have they evolved? Well, that's where there is a grey area where absolute statements are, in fact, stemmed from comparative statements. For example, we have a colour blue, but how did we know what blue was or any colour so to speak. What makes red different from blue, and how did we humans decipher and create spoken symbols to differentiate those 2 colours? Well, through comparative statements.

We can perhaps link colour and senses all to Galileo, where the father of science had formulated and separated the sense world and the physical to mathematically and logically explain the physical and concrete world. But perhaps that would be getting slightly off-topic. Back to comparative statements, society can only create absolute statements by comparing and formulating what a certain word really means. Only after comparing one object with another can we only define that object with a word. For example, the colour red, only after comparing red with blue and ensuring that they are different then can we label a certain colour. Same can be said about objects. We can only label grass after comparing its colour, shape, size et cetera, only after which can we call it grass. That is the ultimate nature of language or the roots of it at least, it's comparativeness.

These are all similarly constructs of society, how we know what the meaning of a symbol, word, action or sound means ultimately depends on the surroundings we grow in, but at this current time language has become a rather concrete construct and is no longer undergoing its development stage but rather it's improvement stage. Of course, ambiguity will always exist especially on an individualistic level, but through years, decades and centuries of rich cultural-historical improvements in language, we now do not require the use of comparative truth in every single statement we make. Language has developed where we know that blue is blue and not that blue is only blue because it's bluer than red. Of course, we are far from perfect and new words may still be created to further exemplify smaller scoped words but if words are too developed wouldn't that ruin and over-complicate language?

For example, if a language and words are used to describe an oddly specific situation or action, would that not over complicate things? For example, the word antepenultimate means 3rd from last, a word I find extremely irrelevant and extra. Of course, there is use for such a word in the research of linguistics and language but to use it as an everyday language to describe the man 2 spaces away from you is simply redundant. Which shows that to oddly specify situations would be ineffective in the progress for an everyday societal language.

In summary, in this post today I summarised the very roots of language and linguistic, and perhaps how it should not be progressed in the future. It's a rather short and summarised post today, and to be honest, these are thoughts that briefly crossed my mind and I only wish to pen them down quickly. If you made it this far, thanks for reading my post!