ABSTRACT

First a few words about how we may understand truth. We must not understand truth in the way positivism does, namely, as a positive, present and available fact connected to a given thing or phenomena. We can of course talk about a certain objective truth connected to given things or phenomena: for example, gravity, the existence of trees, or of black and white people. However, the problem, as we know it with regards to gravity, is that the referent included in such an objective truth is never unequivocal. The law of gravity only exists under certain circumstances, and as a law it makes no sense if we do not include at least a globe and a body. But where is gravity: in the globe, in the body or in their relationship? And do body and globe know the law of gravity? There is no simple answer to these questions. It becomes even more confusing when talking about blacks and whites, in so far as the words black and white belong to a code of colours, not to mention all the possible racist or biological discourses connected to various colours of skin.