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The Only Truth Existing "We

are, then, faced with a quite simple alternative: Either we

deny that there is here anything that can be called truth - a

choice that would make us deny what we experience most

profoundly as our own being; or we must look beyond the

realm of our "natural" experience for a validation of our

certainty." A famous philosopher, Rene Descartes, once

stated, "I am, [therefore] I exist." This statement holds the

only truth found for certain in our "natural" experience that,

as conscious beings, we exist. Whether we are our own

creators, a creation, or the object of evolution, just as long

as we believe that we think, we are proved to exist.

Thinking about our thoughts is an automatic validation of

our self-consciousness. Descartes claims, "But certainly I

should exist, if I were to persuade my self of something."

And so, I should conclude that our existence is a truth, and

may be the only truth, that we should find its certainty.

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