@Scottydamion,
Scottydamion;129201 wrote:Absolute knowledge would be knowing that P is true, and my parents claim absolute knowledge concerning god or reality, because they think the knowledge comes from god and can therefore not be false.
I apologize if the term "absolute knowledge" has a specific meaning in philosophy, but if it does I did not know it.
If P is known, P is true. And so we
can certainly know what is true, if we know things. Remember, think of knowing as simply
a set of conditions which must be met. As long as you believe P, have justification for P, and P is true, you know P. There's nothing absolute about it.
Now, what you seem to be doing is confusing certainty and knowledge. Your parents are very certain about what they think they know, but they might very well be mistaken. That is, they may not know at all. But no matter someone's certainty about a belief, it does not change the, let's see, 'quality' of the purported knowledge. Your parent's knowledge that God exists, if they actually know, isn't any more absolute than my knowing that my dog is in the kitchen, if I actually know. I do not know what the term "absolute knowledge" would mean, except if certainty and knowledge are confused, conjoined.
But this is very common.