Finding the Truth to all things is dependent on the knowledge that one has, and this can change at any given time. Therefore, the truth for any one person can be a totally different due to the knowledge that they know. According …show more content…
In the allegory three men are described chained to a wall, and they have been there since a child. The men could only see shadows made from a fire behind them. These men would see the shadows of the other humans and objects that were projected behind them due to the fire. These men started to name the shadows as objects. To the men, at that point in time, the "truth" would be the shadows that they were seeing. They did not see these as shadows but as the real world. One man got free and left the cave, thus finding the outside world and new things. This man did not, at first, accept what he saw; his truth had been altered due to gaining more knowledge. The freed man now had a different view on what his idea of truth was for the outside world. If the man would not have been set free, he would have never gained the knowledge of the outside world. The free man would have only seen his truth the same as the others chained up to the wall, because he had not obtained that knowledge of the now true outside world. Truth may have different variations due to the knowledge one has. This is shown in the allegory also, as now the three men now have different truths due to their level of knowledge. The freed man found the truer truth due to knowledge, therefore knowledge can help find a truer …show more content…
Therefore, there cannot be a constant truth for everyone. The idea of truth, within all things, is ever changing due to different levels of knowledge. This concept showing that there is never a constant truth can be shown as a spiral of everyone’s truth around the real truth. The different variations of everyone’s truth is dependent on that person’s knowledge. Around the spiral of truth is everyone’s perception of truth. These perceptions of truth are all scattered in different locations around the spiral. This is due to the different levels of knowledge. The spiral of these perceptions of truth are never ending due to the different levels of knowledge in humans. Although there are many variations of truth, oneself truth is never biased off of someone else’s truth unless oneself find their knowledge the same as