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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.

From the "natural"......

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