Introduction To My Theory of Truth

Theory: A response to Decartes

Sitting still with a tea in my hand, and the wind delicately blowing the strands of hair off my face, I could only help but wonder why it feels so real. I contemplated what was real almost the entire time throughout my life, but have only now understood the concept that it is necessary to live without doubting the truth in order to accomplish anything. As I was reading Decartes, I noticed something that might not otherwise be noticed or conceived in the same fashion as what I am about to present to you. For just a recap, Decartes found himself as a ‘thinking thing’ and found himself the only thing that he himself knew for sure existed. Do I exist? Well, like Decartes, because I doubt therefore I think, and thinking is a function of a thing, the brain, therefore I am. Nothing in the world as a thing, concept, logic or idea is real in the sense that it can be continually questioned and researched. There isn’t a solid truth, even though it may be universally accepted, as the grass is green, and may all things be tested and doubted.

If we take all things, matter and energy, and classify them as false, or what they contain can be questioned, then all of society would live on edge, not trusting one another. So in a sense, we need to live by certain by standards and accept most things perceived and validated by our senses as true. Then it got me thinking, what happens if truth within itself is a perception, and on the basis of your individual definition, find indeed things that are true, without the perception of your senses, but by you who exist can find truth in a matter solely inside of you.

Now to get into clarity of what I have proposed, I had already studied this in my own head, because if honest truth can be found and it isn’t solely the truth of one’s existence, then I must be able to prove it within myself in order to see the truth in others.

According to Decartes, he exists solely because he doubts. Now, I exist because I can doubt as well. In taking this fact, I take it one step further. What is it in you that makes you exist other than the function you are already carrying out? If there is truth behind your existence then you must be able to identify yourself before you can explain it. This is a concept I have been trying to figure out for a long time now, why me? How is it that ‘me’ as an entity has the ability to do like others do but still keep my own identity. If I am able to make the connection between ‘me’ as a thing, as an entity, without the ability of being able to do anything except exist, to something that allows ‘me’ to carry out functions like ‘you’ or ‘them’, then I believe I can find things true without doubting them or testing them.