ON TRUTH AND ITS IMPORTANCE

One is born into this world and finds oneself expecting no less from it, than one does from a complete understanding of the truth, and even though we cannot attain to a full understanding of the truth, we are yet still confronted by a lot of meaninglessness and diverging opinions in every quarter and at every turn.
Most opinions are a result of the conditioning and hearsay of the period or age in which they circulate. The truth mostly interests the people who are curious by nature, rather than the people who are opinionated and do not spend much time thinking about it. The truth motivates great thinkers and scientists and so forth, it does not motivate the masses. Only the things that "exist" and are "possible" in reality are the truth, and according to Immanuel Kant the truth can be said to be the agreement of knowledge with its object and our knowledge of what we consider to be the truth is both a description and a judgement. An adequate and full way to define the truth would be to say that the truth is when the knowledge of an object or thing agrees with or is the same as this object or thing. For human beings the experience of the truth is a "realization" that occurs in our lives because nature and reality in general functions and operates in a certain manner and also reality has created truth from the possibilities of its processes. Humans also create truth from possibilities and also from "ideas". Our realization of the truth can be said to be an interpretation of something that we do not fully understand or comprehend. "Truth" in its purest sense is called eternal truth, and constitutes what is eternally possible at all times. Many philosophers argue and doubt whether truth actually exists at all or whether facts are really facts or whether the truth and facts are really only just in our minds, but this is simply a form of futile niggling. All matter and existent things are part of a process where both eternal truths and temporary truths can be observed, it can be said that many temporary truths can be doubted, but you cannot doubt the eternal laws of possibility that constitute the truth that create forms and processes consistently in a certain way. I have always thought that the truth is a process and thing that is "felt" as well as thought , for instance, when we are figuring something out we think and reason and think, but our realization of the truth is always a "feeling", it is as if our thoughts are merely appearances for the realization of the truth which appears like a lightning flash or feeling. When we are describing the truth we must realize all the things that cloud us from a direct understanding of it, we should know that our words, languages, personalities, prejudices, tastes and so many more ways of describing the truth are merely appearances. To want to figure out the truth and to love it more than anything else , should be a priority for the philosopher, even if it be merely an inkling or interpretation as such and not the full majesty of the pure truth that exists everywhere waiting to be grabbed. Solutions that come in their own time are more accurate than solutions which are forced by the mind to appear, this is what is meant by the concept of a person as a "pure knowing subject". The process of discovering the truth or you could say the desire to uncover the truth of things is a desire to avoid wanting to deceive oneself about existence and reality, ignorance can deceive us about many things without us realizing it. The greatest ignorance is the type that takes things for granted without wondering why things are this way or that way and so on. Some people make the mistake of thinking that obvious truths are not worth bothering with because they are obvious, without obvious truths unobvious truths cannot be indicated or felt by the use of logic, one springs from the other in the use of inference. What counts is that we are sure of the truth at all times, all truths give us certainty and even an obvious truth should be as useful and should excite us as much as an obscure or unobvious one. Intelligence, knowledge and truth are the only safeguards against doubt, doubt can make some people lose their way, tragedy is usually due to doubt, if you can eliminate doubt, you can rid yourself of many mistakes and errors, then their is no hardships you cannot conquer. Truth can be said to be an objective thing, this is why opinions have no bearing on the truth. "Truth" is mostly felt by the faculty of "understanding", it cannot be fully contained by language or mathematics. The only way to fully embrace the truth, is by rising above and overcoming one's own limitations of thought and existence and one should and must rise above the trivialities of this planet and attain a birds eye view of a cosmic setting. There are four main ways that the truth is felt by humans: the first is directly by empiricism or experience and by the use of the five senses and the faculty of sensibility as a means to create concepts for our understanding and reason by the use of this sense data.
The second way that we feel the truth is by the logical intuition of space, time and causality. The third way that we feel the truth is by an intuitive connection of knowledge and concepts, and this can be considered to be a form of logical intuition also. The fourth way that we feel the truth is by the physical connection of the forces in matter constantly working on our bodies (i.e., gravity, electro magnetic, strong/weak nuclear forces, the pull of the moon/sun and planets and the tides of the sea, etc.). The rest of the ways in which we feel the truth is a combination of the above four but in different combinations. Understanding the truth is never a purely mental act, but is something that is "thought" and "felt" simultaneously. A common mistake that is made by many thinkers is that they define truth in a limited and one-sided manner, for example, when Kierkegaard mentioned the statement that "truth is subjectivity" he uttered something that we all find to be a very narrow and finite definition of truth. Truth in reality consists of "truths" in the plural sense and so to understand truths requires that you can define all of them by different means. In reality you get universal truths, particular truths, individual truths, subjective truths, objective truths, eternal truths, temporary truths, truth as correspondence, truth as fact, etc. To understand a particular truth requires that you can define it in a meticulous way, rather than stating that truth is a particular thing alone and that's it. The truth is a thing that many people claim to want, but not many people desire it passionately for its own sake. Most people enjoy and welcome truths that flatter and please them, but then reject unwelcome truths as though it was a threat to them. A real lover of wisdom and truth welcomes all truths and fears nothing, we should all be willing to receive truths, obtain them and love them for what they are. Human truths are conventional truths, they are truths by custom. If we call human truths interpretations, this does not invalidate them as truths, because the truth must be interpreted somehow. An interpretation is a type of truth. When we interpret something, what is it that we interpret? It is the truth that we interpret, not something valueless or neutral. We can say that human beings do not value truths only because these truths are practical and have utility, they also value truths as having an objective independence as facts. Objective truths and objective knowledge exists as an ongoing project within human culture, it is also a body of information to be analyzed, scrutinized, questioned, refined and worked on. The objective knowledge, which people fail to falsify can be considered as valid, it can also be expanded, refined and studied in more depth than knowledge that has already been falsified. Truth is one of the most valued and contentiously pursued concepts in regard to its validity that we as people have, and it makes knowing whether certain things are the truth or not even more difficult an endeavour than it could be. Truth is an intrinsic feature of language; if this was not so, then sentences would have no meaning, and ideas would not correspond to experiences. Some truths in the form of the facts of reality, are beyond our comprehension in some cases, but this does not mean that all truths are beyond language if comprehended, it means that some truths in the form of facts are beyond our abilities to sense them, and comprehend them properly, which in a sense, means that we cannot translate them into language. Truth is not just something that we observe, it is something that we actively create in our behaviour, as well as in how we manipulate our environment. Intelligence is more creative than reason or emotion; it is with our intelligence that we are able to manipulate ourselves, others and our environment. I have already mentioned the correspondence aspect of truth, yet truth is also something that we say exists as the reality of facts and events in the world independent of us and our minds. Truth itself exists in the relationship and realization between knowledge and the objective material world that we live in; as this "realization" itself is the essence of the concept of truth. Now in the pursuit of truth and knowledge – there are no neat and tidy answers; only complex, multi-layered ones. And the only way to be ordered and definite, is by defining one's terms beforehand for every concept, notion, hypothesis or theory presented to others for their consideration. For truth is a "realization" that certain ideas and notions are correct representations within knowledge of the things that they apply, or refer to in the world. While a representation is an "image" or "likeness" of something that has some kind of intellectual, emotional or practical use value.