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It seems if I understand Mike, that truth is within perception so multiple truths can exist.
This is something bear wrote, but just to clarify what I mean:
There is one truth, one reality, and like Sergey, I believe it is unknowable by humans, especially considering our limited capabilities of perception. We can visualize in only three dimensions for example.
Perhaps there are more dimensions. Who knows? Many explorations by the science and math community suggest this.
This is a good example of why I like math. We may not be able to see a four dimensional cube, but we can find its volume, its surface area etc. We can even draw the three dimensional shadow that it would cast.
There are, however, multiple perceptions. In fact one unique perception for each individual based on his sense organs ( some people are nearsighted for example) and on the neural connections in his brain which is also unique for each individual. The difference of two perceptions may sometimes be very slight as to go mostly unnoticed, and sometimes very different (like that of a schizophrenic)
Furthurmore, not only is any human beings perception incapable of knowing the truth, but I also take the extreme point of view that it is not even a partial truth, it is an illusion.
Now on this every attempt to prove it disproves it concept.
I don't know about you, but when I dream the dream is real to me. I am in the dream. My dream perception is my reality (and a dream reality can be very different from my waking reality) until I awake. Only then do I know it was a dream. And no matter how hard I fucking try, and I have tried mighty hard, I cannot prove to myself beyond a reasonable doubt that this life I am now experiencing and perceiving is not some dream from which I will one day, maybe upon my death, awaken to find myself able to know the true reality. And then again maybe I awake to a dream within a dream within a dream...
I will attempt in my next post in this forum to explain why I have invested so much time on the metaphysical and then after that, enough of metaphysics, for the time being, and lets get on with political economics.