On Truth and Falsity

                              Only Reality Appears

The skeptics contend that no one can know if their sense objects and thought objects are true and real or false and unreal. The skeptics maintain that the dogmatists do not know because some of them are idealists, some realists, and some a mixture of the two. pb. OP p. 112. But if humans can use their sense objects and thought objects to formulate systems that benefit their fellow humans, then whether they appear only to the mind, or their sense objects all exist exterior to the mind in the world, makes no difference whatsoever. All sense objects and thought objects can only be true and real in either case.

The skeptics do not know if honey is really sweet or bitter because it tastes different to a healthy person and to an unhealthy person. But they ignore the fact that these are two entirely different systems. The system where honey tastes sweet to a healthy person adds to the general knowledge of all humans and is therefore a useful system. When honey tastes bitter, for whatever reason, then that is a useless system. As a universal rule, all systems fit into one of these two categories. Humans can formulate true and useful systems that improve the general knowledge and/or the well being of their fellow humans. But when humans formulate false systems, they use the very same sense objects and thought objects that they use when they formulate true and useful systems. This fact can only mean that all of the sense objects and thought objects that form useful systems or false systems must be true and real. They prove to be useful in either case. "Bitter" is a true taste whether it occurs in a true system such as unsweetened chocolate or in a false system such as the taste of honey. Falsity always occurs in the false combinations themselves, never in the elements of those combinations.

When a person discovers that a system he thought was a true one turns out to be a false one, he never discovers anything that is not real. A person observes a tower from a distance and sees it as "round," but when he walks closer to the tower he sees that it is really square. His false system that includes the true sense object "distance" and the true thought object "round" happens to be false simply because it mistakenly combines two real objects that prove to be useful in any other useful system that requires the inclusion of the real sense object "distance" and the real thought object "round." This fact can only mean that humans never observe and experience anything that is not real, but humans can use its sense objects and thought objects to form true and useful systems, or false systems, which proves that they all must be true and real. For example, a person can imagine that a unicorn exists. He uses two thought objects derived from experience called a "horn" and a "horse" to form his false system. He knows that his system is false because it is useless and means nothing. He has made use of his real idea of nothing to determine that his imagined unicorn is really false and useless and means nothing although it comprises two real thought objects. But he never directly observes the unreality of the unicorn. The fact that humanity can use its real idea of nothing to indicate the reality of false systems, and humanity can also use its sense objects and thought objects to form useful systems that increase knowledge and benefit their fellow humans, and humans never directly observe or experience unreality, only goes to prove that all of its sense objects and thought objects can only be true and real. God has calibrated human consciousness to be able to observe and experience only reality, and unreality can only be a vast emptiness that humans can never directly experience.