my. Our judgment of what is true depends on our own experiences, and how things becomes true for us( Krishnamurti 31). Aristotle would have us believe that truth exists within the combination of ideas and the same would go for falsity. Truth or falsehood cannot exist when the ideas are isolated. So according to Aristotle there are only a handful of truths in the universe. The rest are just relative depending upon the context in which you use them. Every thought, besides the idea that we think, has the opportunity that it may be proven wrong. An example could be the initial idea of the earth being flat. We would probably agree to change our idea of truth to the judgments of experts(Boodin 212). This example we may have once believed to be the absolute truth, may be proven wrong at any time, and what we really know, may not be the truth after all. We may search for the answer of truth until the end of time, when God says to us that the only truths are in him. Jack Handy had the most logical answer to the question of truth 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." (Www.hooked.net). Thinking about our thoughts is evidence of our self-consciousness. 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(Solomon 158). So we cannot test the soundness of our reality, reason, logic, and truth, but we can test to the truth of our existence by thinking, therefore, being. I used this for a first year philosophy class, I don't think my T.A.liked it, he is making me come in to go "over it with him". ...
