September 9, 2008

  • VERITAS

    "Truth is said to consist in the agreement of knowledge with the object. According to this mere verbal definition, then, my knowledge, in order to be true, must agree with the object. Now, I can only compare the object with my knowledge by this means, namely, by taking knowledge of it. My knowledge, then, is to be verified by itself, which is far from being sufficient for truth. For as the object is external to me, and the knowledge is in me, I can only judge whether my knowledge of the object agrees with my knowledge of the object. Such a circle in explanation was called by the ancients Diallelos. And the logicians were accused of this fallacy by the sceptics, who remarked that this account of truth was as if a man before a judicial tribunal should make a statement, and appeal in support of it to a witness whom no one knows, but who defends his own credibility by saying that the man who had called him as a witness is an honorable man."

    - Immanuel Kant

    Hm...

    Maybe that's the way it really is...

    Everything I touch, I see, I feel and I think, are merely just interactions of electrodes in my nerve cells that my brain generated. This is Matrix shit, for we all are living a lie, where my opinion will forever stay mine and yours will forever stay yours; my blue is always different from yours, my truth is always different from yours.

    I think I've come to accept this thought, that we are after all, very different beings to the degree that we are the same.

    So what?

    I don't know...

    I know there's no point thinking about these stuff, but somehow I feel there's a necessity to it.