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Truth II: The Only Truth Existing Essay, Research Paper

Truth

The Only Truth Existing

[This is my second and last essay of Philosophy 201]-RJ

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” experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find are our

personal

truths. From these experiences, we have learned to understand life with reason and

logic;

we have established our idea of reality; and we believe that true perceptions are what

we

sense and see. But it is our sense of reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our

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