It is easy for a person to believe that Saturn has prominent rings. A person can also believe that Saturn is the largest planet in the Solar System. The questions that come up are, are that person's belief that the largest planet in the solar system is Saturn correct and does that statement express that persons true thought that it is true. If this person were to say that the largest planet in the solar system has prominent rings, does that express the true thought of the person's belief that Saturn is the largest planet in the solar system?
             A person might say "Well, that may be true for you, but it's not true for me." The implication here is often that there is no real truth to the matter but is instead a matter merely of belief. You believe what you want to believe and I'll believe what I want to believe and let's go on our merry way. You can see what a boon to self-deception a mechanism like this could be. You can believe anything and no one would have the right to tell you that you can't rationally believe it. So, one can isolate oneself and one's beliefs from the critical evaluation of others, because what also goes without saying in this framework of relative truth, is that no one besides yourself can tell you what is "true for you". The closest another could come would be to say something like "It's true for me that it's not true for you". This is never actually done in the 'true for me' game. But if it were, then since all that the other would be expressing is what is true for them, even though your beliefs are the subject of their 'truth', there "opinion" has no real importance (except to them). It is only true in their world which is inaccessible to you. You can
             dismiss it and forget it. We can see that by this view "true for me" just means that I believe it.
             The word 'true' is in there to give the belief its own legitimacy. You may ask: "What does 'I believe it' mean?" There doesn't seem t
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