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> Truth is something that exists.

that seems to imply that truth is a 'thing' like a house or a bird or a number...

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I disagree. I simply said that Truth exists. I didn't imply it's a thing. (Just as if I had said, "Love exists" or "Hate exists" it would not imply their 'thingness'.)

Looking exclusively at language has been the main thrust of philosophy since the middle of the 20th Century, but I think it's important not to get too caught up in it. It has its place, and it always has, but framing every argument as a language problem is a very narrow way of looking at the world. Relativists (among others) propose that since language is the only way we can communicate about things and concepts, that it's the only reality. When they argue with dissenters, they assume their premises and usually win the argument since one cannot refer to concepts that transcend language with anything but language itself.

Most people throughout the history of the world, however, have believed that Truth does in fact exist and that it transcends language. Relativism basically discards the common experience of humanity.