On Truth and Falsity

                                Experience and Reality

The skeptics are those philosophers who claim that they have suspended all judgment as to whether anything that can be experienced is true or false. They contend that because experiences can contradict each other, then no way can be found to discover what is true and real. They contend that contradictory experiences cannot be the same as reality because reality would contain no contradictions. They assert that all humans can have only sense experiences and thought experiences that, because of their contradictory natures, cannot be the same as reality. They posit that if reality exists, it must be something that lies hidden behind appearances, and they claim that they hope that this reality can be discovered, but they also know that humans have no possible way to discover this hidden reality, and so they actually claim that there can be no such thing as reality. The skeptics castigate the philosophers they call the dogmatists because the dogmatists engage in  the useless attempt to speculate on how humans can find ways to separate truth from falsity, and thereby find a deeper reality. paperback Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Yet, even though they reject dogmatism, they insist on their own dogmatic assertion that in order to be a real skeptic, one must adopt their ideas that they consider to be absolutely true that all judgments about what is real and not real must be suspended. OP p. 63.

But what if all sense objects and all thought objects were real just as they are experienced. The empiricists claim that humans can learn nothing except through experience. The empiricists must be right because no one can know anything until one has experienced it. But that truth can only mean that all sense objects and all thought objects must be real because they all have made impressions on the mind, and therefore, they all have been experienced. Turn at random to any page in the dictionary and read it, and one will find that every word on that page, and in the entire dictionary, has a meaning. Since every word has a meaning, then every word has made a necessary impression on the mind, and therefore, every word has been experienced. One can learn something from every word in the dictionary. Even nonsense words have a meaning. They mean nothing. This fact reveals that although nothing has never been experienced to the mind as a sense object, it nevertheless has a useful purpose in that it indicates to the mind the difference between something and nothing. The basic reality of the mind is that it has the ability to distinguish the real experience of something from the real experience of nothing. That ability cannot be doubted. The usefulness of the real idea of nothing allows the mind to realize that nonsense words mean nothing. They are equal to nothing. But in its recognition that nonsense words mean nothing, the mind provides a meaning to nonsense words. They mean nothing. This recognition makes the idea of nothing useful to the mind, and therefore, real. Whatever is not real cannot be useful. Illusions are always useless except in certain special ways. Minds have never experienced nothing as a sense object. Minds cannot directly see nothing, but minds can see something through nothing; that is, through space to something. The idea of nothing has a useful purpose to the mind which means the idea has made an impression on the mind which, in turn, means the idea of nothing has to be a real experience in the mind. And yet, the idea of nothing happens to be only a thought object to the mind. Since the idea of nothing can be real to the mind, then all somethings, whether sense objects or thought objects, must also be real to the mind.

God created man in His image. Genesis 1:27. God created humans to have an intelligent consciousness like He has. The difference happens to be that God has an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness whereas humans have a limited intelligent consciousness. God perfectly calibrated the intelligent consciousness of humans to recognize that the entire quallia of human sense experiences and thought experiences happens to be appearances that are real to the mind exactly as they appear to the mind. This reality can be proven by the fact that every sense object and every thought object happens to be useful to the mind in that they can be put into words that can be arranged into meaningful sentences and useful systems that have the effect of being beneficial to the knowledge, health, and well being of humans. Truth obtains in practical systems that benefit humanity. False words and systems always mean nothing and can therefore be usefully discarded by intelligent minds. Genesis 1:31; Psalm 19:1-14; Romans 1:19-23.