Philosophy - The Only Truth Ex
"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 ...
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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 ...
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