RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 1:30 am
There is no such thing as, "The Truth," or ultimate truth or absolute truth. Truth is not a thing, not a substance, and not an entity.
Truth is an
attribute. Truth is an attribute of only one kind of thing: statements that assert something about something else. Any statement (sentence or proposition) of the form, "such'n'such is so'n'so," is an assertion that is
true if such'n'such is actually so'n'so, and is not true (false) if such'n'such is not so'n'so. Truth is nothing more than the attribute of all true assertions.
There is no other kind of truth.
Like all attributes there is no truth independent of those things (verbal assertions) truth is a quality of. Truth only pertains to actual sentences that are thought, articulated, or written in a language. There is no truth of any kind independent of actual verbal statements. There is no truth independent of human conscious thought.
Just as there is no size, (such as big) or shape, (such as triangular), or taste (such as sweet) if there is nothing that has size, shape, or flavor, there is no truth (or falehood) if there is no verbal assertion that can be true or false.
Almost everything said or written about truth in religion and philosophy is nonsense intended to obfuscate what truth means with the intention of repudiating truth and knowledge to put over some absurd ideology, program, or agenda or other superstitious nonsense.
I agree and understand above statement. Which has been very well explained.
''Truth'' is a concept known only in relationship to it's equal and exact opposite by association.
Every known concept is a meaningless symbolic character that only appears to be meaningful, therefore can only be fictional.
All meaning is derived from what is fundamentally meaningless. Therefore, everything is both true and false, yet neither true nor false outside of human conceptual langage. As I've said before, knowledge and meaning can only point to the illusory nature of reality, in so far as there is no meaning and knowledge in reality, except in this fictional conception.
In order to understand what I have written, one has to think very deeply into what ''words'' actually are. They are in all actuality made of ''sound'' which is pure emptiness, at it's deepest core.
I'm not posting this response to invoke a reply, I'm simply leaving this an idea to ponder. I will say nothing further on the matter.
A pure example of what I am attempting to say can be read here >
''The character of existence is not true, is false''
There is no such thing as nonduality because nonduality is not a thing. Therefore, reality is nondual.
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