On Truth and Falsity

                                Only Reality Appears

The skeptics claim that there has to be a difference between appearances and reality. They also claim that humans only possess appearances and that reality can never be found. They believe that if reality exists at all it must be hidden behind appearances. Since they also believe that reality is impossible to find, they really believe that reality does not exist at all.

But God would never supply humans with appearances that were not the same as reality. That would be a form of deception, and God never lies except to His enemies. Titus 1:1-2. In addition, God would never need to hide reality. God has calibrated human consciousness to be conscious of experiences as reality in both sense objects and thought objects. Humans cannot be conscious of anything except reality. Unreality is that which is hidden from human consciousness. Humans can formulate false systems which indicate nonexistence, but humans must use the real idea of nothing to indicate nonexistence. Nonexistence itself never appears to human consciousness.

For all their skepticism, the skeptics dogmatically assert their believe that God does not exist. pb.OP p.26. Yet, these skeptics are perfectly willing to live in a civilized society made possible by the laws and rules laid down by dogmatists for the purpose of constraining humans to live in peace and harmony with each other. In other words, the skeptics tacitly admit that someone has to make the rules in life if humans are to attain a better existence. God makes the rules of life so that humans can enjoy peace and prosperity if they obey those rules. Exodus 20:1-18. One would think that if the skeptics were true to their doctrine, they would do whatever they felt like doing and pay no attention whatsoever to any rules. Sextus Empiricus was a physician. Yet, he must have ignored the fact that when he prescribed medicine for a patient to recover from his sickness, he was being a dogmatist. Many skeptics and atheists exist in the world today. Yet, for all their perversity, they all follow some little god who lays down the rules that they obey.

One of the examples that the skeptics use as evidence for their claim that humans will never be able to discern the difference between reality and unreality happens to be that a square tower can look round from a distance, and therefore, no one can ever tell if the tower is really square or round. pb. OP. p.26. But in making this claim, the skeptics confuse two separate and different systems of observation. The first system is, "Close to the tower makes it look square." The second system is, "Distance from the tower makes it look round." Both systems comprise sense objects and thought objects that are true and real. Yet, the first system is true and real, and the second system is false. The second system is false because it subtracts the real sense object called "close" and replaces it with the real sense object called "distance." Distance from the tower distorts the appearance of the shape of the tower, but replaces the distortion with the real thought object called "round." In both systems, all that appears to an observer is true and real, and yet, the second system is false just as 2+3=6 is false. An observer can make the judgment that the second system is false by his use of the idea of nothing that indicates its falsity, but the unreality of the distortion of the tower never appears to his consciousness. The distortion was replaced with the real idea of "round." When a person is close to the tower, he observes not only the "squareness" of the tower, but he indirectly also observes all of the systems that went into the creation of the tower. The tower was designed and built to be square. Therefore, the true and real system can only be that, "The tower is square."