we are our own creators, a creation, or the object of evolution, as long as we know that we think, we prove to exist. Descartes claims, "But certainly I should exist, if I were to persuade my self of something." Our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that we know is certain . Rousseau would have us believe that truths can only be established in social situations, along with Aristotle who believes that truth cannot be isolated. Machiavelli brings us a little closer in a twisted way. He believes in telling lies to get what you want. He doesn't try to throw vague ideas at you, he just wants you to use effectual truths. Karl Marx gives us clear ideas of what he wants us to do. Just throw out the whole system and start over. He wants to create a system that does not involve truths. No more deception, everyone is on the same playing field. Truth is a very simple and handy concept. It is correspondence of a pictorial or symbolic representation to the thing being represented. We may search for the answer until the end of time, when God says to us that the only truths are in him. He may tell all these philosophers that the answer was right in front of them and that they should have never led his children astray. All I know is Jack Handy said it best when he said: "To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing." This is truth, to me." Every object is ruled self-contradicting which can be opposed by questioning its perception and even the existence for its use. Our experiences from our natural existence gives us a bias of all that is true. The ideas that we encounter are determined true by personal evaluation in the associations of those ideas with ourselves. "I am, [therefore] I exist," may be the only statement with any validity of our certainty. This is an essay that I w...
