On Truth and Falsity

                               God's Gift of Reality

The skeptics maintain that what they call the "regent part," which they equate with the soul, cannot be apprehended, and therefore, its objects cannot be apprehended as they really are. pb. OP ps.118-122. But what they mean by the phrase "regent part" can only be consciousness. The skeptics admit that humans have appearances, but then they deny that both consciousness and its appearances can be known to be real. In other words, they equate both consciousness and its appearances with nothing. But nothing cannot produce appearances. Their conclusions clearly cannot be the case since consciousness really does have appearances whether those appearances are real or not. This means the skeptics have tacitly admitted that at least one true fact exists; that is, that consciousness really does have appearances whether or not they are true and real. If consciousness were in a state somewhere between reality and unreality, it could not produce appearances, or if it did, those appearances could only exist in chaotic state. This fact establishes another undeniable fact; that is, that consciousness has to be real because it really has appearances whether or not those appearances are real or not.

Consciousness has to be real because it effectively produces appearances whether those appearances are real or unreal. If consciousness were unreal, it could produce no appearances whatsoever. Since it does produce appearances then it must really produce them. Consciousness has to be real in order to do that. Experience has taught humans that unreal systems always only produce the real idea of nothing which humans can use to identify the falsity and the nothingness which adheres to false systems. Falsity and nothingness always equals unreality, but humans never directly experience unreality. Humans only experience the real idea of nothing that indirectly indicates unreality. True and real systems always work. False and unreal systems never work.

The skeptics further assert that the only way to determine if consciousness and its appearances can be true and real is to put both to an infinite test. Only if an infinite consciousness exists can consciousness be known to be real, and only if an infinite set of the objects of consciousness exists can those objects be known to be real. But if consciousness really has appearances, whether real or not, then that means that consciousness itself has to be real and can be proven to be real by an infinite test. Finite consciousness really does have appearances, whether real or not, and those appearances constitutes the stream of consciousness to finite consciousness. But intelligent, finite consciousness can be conscious of its stream of consciousness which requires another consciousness. But since finite consciousness possesses this additional consciousness, it can only be conscious of it by means of still another, and of that still another, which proceeds toward infinity. Although finite consciousness happens to be far to weak and limited to carry itself to infinity, the very fact that finite consciousness can proceed toward infinity provides evidence that an infinite test of its reality can be possible. That part of human consciousness that proceeds toward infinity could be called the spirit of humans that connects to an Infinite Consciousness. This Infinite Consciousness would complete the connection of human consciousness to infinity and prove that limited human consciousness can only be true and real. Proverbs 20:27 (KJB).   

The skeptics contend that consciousness can only know its sensations that it receives from its appearances and not the real objects themselves. But these skeptics can never know if their supposed real objects exist if there can never be any way of apprehending them. They dogmatically assert the non-evident. But if God created a real human consciousness then He must have also calibrated that consciousness to be apprehensive of real sense objects and thought objects. The very sensations of its objects of consciousness happens to be the same as the reality of its objects. But the skeptics confuse the issue by their assertion that different sensations occur to different persons under different circumstances, and that fact proves that no one can tell if the objects of consciousness are true and real or not. But they ignore the fact that when different sensations occur to different persons under different circumstances, that only means that different systems occur within different streams of consciousness. All of the elements of all of those systems can still be true and real.

God has calibrated humans to be conscious of real sense objects and thought objects displayed as sensations or impressions on consciousness. The problem with weak humans is that they often combine true and real sense objects and thought objects into false systems that mean nothing. For example, 2+3=6 is a false system even though every number and sign are real and true. "Bitter" is a real and true sensation even though it can appear in a false system when an unhealthy person tastes honey. "Round" is a true and real appearance even though it can occur in a false system when a person observes a square tower from a distance. God has given true and real sense objects and thought objects and all of their spectrums to humans which constitutes reality. But humans can by accident, by mistake, by weakness, or by deliberate action formulate any of these real objects into false systems which happens to be the only unreality that humans ever encounter. Even so, humans never directly observe unreality. Humans only observe that by the use of the real idea of nothing, they can determine that false systems mean nothing and can be usefully discarded from reality.