On Truth and Falsity

                             Reality Proves Itself

While the skeptics admit that humans have appearances, they deny that there can be any proof that appearances are real. pb. OP ps.143-160. But if appearances were not real, then they could only be illusions, and true reality would have to be something different. But the skeptics assert that proof that anything is real can only be impossible. Even if their supposed true reality were discovered, would it not be subject to all of the impossible tests, such as the infinity test, that the skeptics apply to appearances? The skeptics actually argue that true reality can never be discovered. But if it is impossible to ever discover what true reality could be, would not appearances be the same as true reality, even if they are illusions?

The skeptics argue that appearances are mere sensations, and therefore, might not be real. But if sensations are all that humans can possess, how could anyone recognize true reality even if they found it? For what reason do the skeptics separate sensations from reality? Sensations themselves could be the true reality. Since sensations as appearances can be all that humans can possess, and any other reality is impossible to discover, then appearances can only be the same as reality.

What do the skeptics mean when they assert that appearances could be unreal? If the skeptics mean that appearances could be unreal because some non-evident true reality exists behind those appearances, which, by their own admission, can never be discovered, then, by a logical elimination, only appearances can be real. If the skeptics mean that unreality equals non-existence, and therefore, appearances mean nothing, they contradict their own admission that humans actually have appearances which are the same as sensations.

In addition, when one closely examines the appearances which humans possess, one finds that unreality never directly appears to humans. One finds that unreality always consists of a false combination of two or more appearances. For example, when one closely examines any false system such as a lie, one finds that they always, without exception, comprise true appearances. When a child lies to his mother and tells her, "I did not eat the candy," the "I" is a true appearance, the "did" is a true appearance, the "not" is a true appearance as an idea in the mind, the "eat" is a true appearance, the "the" is a true appearance, and the "candy" is a true appearance. The same happens to be true of all false systems. When the mother discovers that her child has lied to her because of the smear of candy on his face, she realizes that his false system means nothing. She uses her real idea of nothing to equate his false system with unreality, but she never directly observes the unreality. Since humans never directly observe the unreality in false systems, then that can only mean that all appearances must be real.

In addition, humans can use both sense objects and thought objects to create true systems that prove to be useful for the benefit of their fellow humans. This means all objects must be real since all unreal objects could only be useless. The skeptics, even to this day, believe that thought objects have less meaning than do sense objects. But since both prove to be useful in the creation of useful systems, they have to be equally real. Thought objects can be abstracted from sense objects, but in cases where they could not have been so abstracted, they had to have been given to the mind. But thought objects happen to be just as real as are sense objects in the same sense that a photograph of a person is just as real as is the person. Sense objects and thought objects are equally real in the vast spectrum called reality because both happen to be useful in the creations of beneficial systems. Sense objects and thought objects both have to be real appearances because unreality never directly appears in this spectrum of reality. Human consciousness can use the useful and real thought object called "the idea of nothing" to indicate the falsity within all false systems which always comprises true and real appearances. "Falsity" is a true and useful idea. "Nothing" is a true and useful idea. All of the appearances in all false systems are true and real. But unreality itself never directly appears to human consciousness.

When God created humans, He calibrated all of the sensations and appearances that humans can possess with reality itself. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:7-9; Genesis 2:19-20. (KJB).