On Truth and Falsity

                             Reality Cannot Be False


The skeptics admit that their bodies hunger for food and thirst for water so that they can stay alive. pb. OP p.92. Food and water are appearances, but they happen to be necessary to keep humans alive. The skeptics assert that all appearances could be false, but falsity always happens to be completely useless and equal to nothing unless humans add other ideas to false systems in order to make them useful. All this means that food and water cannot possibly be false or unreal because these have proven to be useful systems that keep humans alive. Since the systems of food and water can only be real, then all of the elements of food and water must also be real. When one reads a dictionary in any language, one finds that all of the words have meaning, even if they mean nothing, and therefore denote sense objects and thought objects that happen to be useful in the formulation of beneficial systems or false systems. That can only mean, by the use of inductive reasoning, that all sense objects and all thought objects experienced by consciousness must be true and real.

Some may counter with the argument that all appearances could be but an illusion, even if useful. They contend that human consciousness could exist in a kind of dream state. But a dream state of consciousness happens to be quite different from an awake state. Dreams often make little sense, and any type of thought object can unexpectedly appear in the dream state. That seldom happens in the awake state. When humans encounter systems that make little sense in the awake state, they often instigate investigations of those systems to find out why. Humans seldom do that in the dream state. Fantastic events can happen in the dream state. They seldom happen in the awake state.

In addition, if consciousness produces appearances that are all mere illusions, one would still undeniably have to admit that consciousness produces them. Even if consciousness produces only false appearances, consciousness can nevertheless use those appearances to formulate beneficial or false systems. But since all illusions have proven to be useless and false except when humans can add ideas to them to make them useful, then such a consciousness could never produce beneficial systems. Even false systems have proven to be beneficial because they can be usefully discarded and put out of reality. All of this means that a consciousness that produces only falsity could never produce any beneficial systems. If consciousness produced only false sense objects and thought objects that it could nevertheless use to formulate beneficial and false systems, and all falsity became useless within those systems, and no means could be found to discover that all appearances were false, then that illusory reality would be indistinguishable from reality itself. Consciousness is a basic, irreducible system that produces the full spectrum of reality. Consciousness has to be a true system. If consciousness were a false system, it would be useless and would produce nothing at all. In other words, consciousness has to exist in order for reality to exist. If consciousness did not exist, only an absolute nothingness would non-exist. That fact can only mean that an Infinite Consciousness must exist in order to create an eternal reality. Genesis 1:1 (KJB).