On Truth and Falsity

                            The Reality of Truth and Falsity

The skeptics contend that no one can discern the difference between truth and falsity, and therefore, truth cannot really exist because it would always be nullified by falsity. pb. OP ps. 122-127. They actually maintain that neither truth nor falsity can exist. When they make this argument, they misuse both their intelligence and true logic. According to their logic, one wonders how they could have ever obtained the ideas of truth and falsity. If no difference really exists between truth and falsity, no one could ever become aware of truth and falsity. If it were true that no human can really tell the difference between truth and falsity, then humans would possess no intelligence, and human consciousness would be equal to that of the animals. The animals simply accept their stream of consciousness as it comes without any consciousness of it or any judgments about it.

But humans are aware of their stream of consciousness, and therefore that gives humans the intelligence needed to manipulate their sense objects and thought objects to form systems that can increase knowledge and benefit their fellow humans, or that can be discovered to be false and usefully discarded, or speculative systems that need investigation to determine if they are true or false. This fact can only mean that the ideas of truth and falsity can only be innate to the human mind. The ideas of truth and falsity could not have been derived from an evolutionary process because, as the animals consciousness demonstrates, truth and falsity do not appear in experience except as independent needs such as food and water. Intelligence is required to obtain the ideas of truth and falsity. But the ideas of truth and falsity had to exist prior to human intelligence because they could not have just inexplicably appeared out of nowhere.

Humans can be conscious of their stream of consciousness which gives them intelligence, but in order to be conscious of their stream of consciousness, humans need another consciousness, and still another which proceeds toward infinity. Human consciousness has a connection to the infinite, connected to it by the infinite, since human consciousness proves to be far to weak to carry itself to infinity. This means that humans derived their intelligence, and such ideas as truth and falsity, from the infinite. But since ideas cannot exist without consciousness, then the infinite would have to possess both an Infinite Consciousness and an Infinite Intelligence. Psalm 147:5 (KJB).