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Well the philosopher's quest itself, is originally a search for an absolute: Truth. But because through history, man has become increasingly aware of his own limitations (can we trust our own senses? aren't they flawed?how accurate is our capacity to reason? Can we trust ourselves, isn't our unconscious hiding something from ourselves?) becase of all of these issues and also scientific paradoxes(physical laws of gravity vs. subatomic physics), they had to replace absolute universal truths with validities, limited by time and space.
So are there any absolutes? Often what we do is go towards that absolute and try to get closer and closer, never attaining it, IMO.
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