by Adam Sears

Created on: May 09, 2009

Truth Exists In and Of Itself

Truth's Greatest Myth:

The greatest myth about truth is that it requires someone to perceive it in order for it to exist. The tenets of this belief include that if a person perceives something to be true then it must be a truth. Another branch of this belief claims that because a perception is limited that any truth that is viewed in this perception is also limited in the same ways. It is also a claim made by those who follow this course of belief that because things must be perceived in order to register as a form of truth to the viewer that there is no such thing as truth beyond that boundary, and that because of this limit that everything in its nature is an illusion. It is out of this illogical belief that much debate has formed over the existence of truth.

Truth Is Not Limited to Perception

However, if you are prepared to acknowledge that there is truth beyond your limited perception (that there ARE things you nothing of that have the potential to be true) , then you should likewise be prepared to understand that truth is not limited to being perceived by you. After all, no one person knows all things true, and everyone does not know everything about a single truth. In fact, there are truths that are still waiting to be discovered.

It took humans thousands of years to discover that Earth is a globe. Anyone before that who claimed it to be true, even though they were right, were viewed as delusional. It is a truth, and it did not, nor does not, require being perceived in order to exist.

So Long As Humans Have the Will, Every Truth Will Be Deniable

Even though most people recognize their perception as a potentially biased viewpoint, they seem unwilling to assess, or even accept, the realities beyond their limited veil of understanding. It is because of this limitation and the inability or undesirability to act beyond it that humans have fallen into this trap in believing that truth is limited to their field of vision.

This is why the belief that truth is limited to being perceived is an illogical one. It is illogical because: even though the people who believe in this way recognize that they live in a multi-dimensional world, they somehow feel as though truth should be something that is perceived by everyone to that point where it is undeniable. However, it becomes clear that such thinking is morbidly double-minded. It is the extreme of this point that many people can argue, even with evidence, that every truth is deniable because not

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