The only Truth Existing

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The Only Truth Existing

The Only Truth Existing

"We are, then, faced with a quite simple alternative: Either we deny that there is here

anything that can be called truth - a choice that would make us deny what we experience

most profoundly as our own being; or we must look beyond the realm of our "natural"

experience for a validation of our certainty."

A famous philosopher, Rene Descartes, once stated, "I am, [therefore] I exist." This

statement holds the only truth found for certain in our "natural" experience that, as

conscious beings, we exist. Whether we are our own creators, a creation, or the object of

evolution, just as long as we believe that we think, we are proved to exist. Thinking about

our thoughts is an automatic validation of our self-consciousness. Descartes claims, "But

certainly I should exist, if I were to persuade my self of something." And so, I should

conclude that our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that we should find its

certainty.

From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find are our personal

truths. From these experiences, we have learned to understand life with reason and logic;

we have established our idea of reality; and we believe that true perceptions are what we

sense and see. But it is our sense of reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our

perceptions, that may likely to be very wrong. Subjectiveness, or personal belief, is almost

always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the established truth that we exist, there are

no other truths that are certain, for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted.

Every person possesses his or her own truth that may be contradicting to another person's

belief. A truth, or one that is true for all, cannot by achieved because of the constant

motion of circumstances of who said it, to whom, when, where, why, and how it was said.

What one person may believe a dog is a man's best friend, another may believe that a dogs

is a man's worse enemy. What one may believe is a pencil, to another is not a pencil, but

a hair pin. Where one may believe that a bottle is an instrument, one may believe is a toy,

where another may believe is a beverage container. Where one will understand the moving

vehicle "car," one might understand "car" as a tree. Our perception of what is true

depends on our own experiences, and how something becomes true for us. Many

circumstances are necessary to derive at one's truth, whether it is an idea, object, or

language. All perception, besides the perception of existence, is uncertain of being true for

all individuals.

Every thought, besides the idea that we think, has the possibility that it may be proven

wrong. The author of the article, Knowledge Regained, Norman Malcolm, states that, "any

empirical proposition whatever could be refuted by future experience - that is, it could turn

out to be false." An example could be the early idea of the earth being flat and not the

current perception of the earth being round. History tells us that at one time, the

perception of the earth was thought to be flat. This notion was an established truth to

many because of the sight and sense that people perceived about the earth's crust. At one

point, to accept the newer truth that the earth is round, meant that, what one believed was

true, really wasn't. And, what if, at some point in the future, we were told by a better

educated group of observers that the earth is not round, but a new shape we've never

even perceived before? Would we agree to the scientists' observation