On Truth and Falsity

                                 A Proof of Reality

The skeptics base some of their arguments on the fallacy of circular reasoning. Circular reasoning means that a person assumes something to be true, and then they try to prove that truth by the same assumption. The skeptics argue that sense objects cannot prove that thought objects are real, and thought objects cannot prove that sense objects are real because both themselves have not been proven to be real. They contend that in order to be true and real both sense objects and thought objects must be tested to infinity to prove that they are true and real. Since that test happens to be impossible for humans to do, then every person should suspend all judgment as to the truth of reality itself. pb. OP ps.63-67. Circular reasoning is always false because it happens to be always useless. But in the broad sense, circular reasoning can be valid because all that humans discover to be true can only be described in terms of that which is already known. When scientists discovered atoms to be real, they could only describe them in mathematical and geometric terms already known.

The skeptics contend that one must suspend all judgment as to what is true and real because all of reality could be just an illusion. But reality cannot be an illusion because all illusions prove themselves to be useless except when humans attach real ideas to them in order to make them useful. Fiction writers and magicians regularly attach the idea of "entertainment" to their illusions in order to create useful systems. The police regularly lie to criminals holding hostages because the police attach the idea of "rescue" to that illusion in order to make it into a useful system in their attempt to rescue the hostages from possible harm. All sense objects and all thought objects prove themselves to be true and real because humans can use them all to invent useful systems that benefit humanity. Reality is always creative. Illusions are usually useless. All useful systems always comprise true and real sense objects and/or thought objects, but illusions also always comprise true and real sense objects and/or thought objects.

Humans observe sense objects and thought objects in a stream of consciousness. But intelligence happens because humans can be conscious of their stream of consciousness and can therefore manipulate their objects in order to invent systems that prove to be useful and real or useless and false. But since no one can say anything of which one is not conscious, then one must realize that in order to be conscious of one's stream of consciousness then one needs a consciousness of one's consciousness of one's stream of consciousness. But this process requires still another consciousness which proceeds toward infinity. This procession of consciousness toward infinity could be called the spirit of the human being. The skeptics applied the infinity test for the establishment of reality to the sense and thought objects, but the infinity test that establishes reality should be applied to human consciousness. However, human consciousness happens to be far to weak and limited to be able to carry this process to infinity.

In order for time and space to exist, at least limited consciousness must exist, which being always in the present divides the universe into the past, present, and future. If a consciousless universe existed prior to the advent of human consciousness, then that universe could only perpetually be a singularity, completely devoid of space and time. Consciousness has to exist in order for space and time to exist. This fact can only mean that an Infinite Consciousness has to exist who expanded a singularity to create a universe with space and time. This Infinite Consciousness would have to possess an Infinite Existence and an Infinite Presence. This Infinite Consciousness created humans in His image which means He gave humans intelligence, a conscience, and a direct connection of the limited spirit of humans to His Infinite Consciousness. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). This can only mean that God calibrated human consciousness to be conscious of the reality of all of its sense objects and thought objects.