Reality, Sensation, Reason, and Truth

 

The reality-sensation-reason-truth complex seems immensely sturdy and strong. It also seems wholly natural. Indeed, reality and truth are synonyms.

Objects and beings exist in nature and reality. These objects and beings naturally have various attributes and engage in various behaviors. Living beings have sensing nerves or organs which receive impressions from these things and their acts. The data which these sensing parts gather in is sent to the brain or mind of the living creature. The being then processes and organizes the information into a unitary and coherent perception or reflection of the object which generated the original sensations. This idea or mental reality is an attempt to closely represent, mirror, and copy the object or physical reality. An intelligent being can then exercise his free will and take this idea – located within his mind, and without external stimulus – and process and organize it with other ideas to form concepts or categories. He might then compare and contrast various ideas and concepts to form opinions, draw conclusions, solve problems, speculate, imagine, fantasize, innovate, or create. If he does this accurately, these coherent and integrated ideas and concepts will result in a certain amount of understanding, knowledge, facts, truth, wisdom, and goodness which he can use to achieve great things.

It’s all a matter of reality, sensation, reason, and truth. And it’s all so clear, clean, natural, and almost obvious. None of these four distinct things, or their relationships, seems difficult to identify or comprehend. None seems ambiguous, uncertain, confusing, or open to sincere, honest doubt. None clash with or contradict the others.

So despite the nonsensical, irrational, and malicious claims of Berkelely, Hume, Kant, and Hegel – and their evil attempts to separate, disconnect, isolate, alienate, ignore, or deny the existence of these four – the whole human thinking process and existential complex still seems extremely solid, sound, sure, reliable, trustworthy, undoubtable, and undeniable.