The
question 'what is truth' precedes ‘where is truth’.
Is truth in the mind, within a book, on the tip of a statue's nose or
within a crisp apple? Soren Kierkegaard being not a dunce might have
upgraded his paradigm of truth theory were he alive today.
Truth
theory offers several versions one should know. I prefer
correspondence theory and its emphasis upon communication. Truth is a
process of verifying subject-object relations. For example, one says
that it is raining, so Sally looks out the windows, sees that it is
and determines the statement 'it is raining' is true. If,
alternatively, it had been snowing, she would have determined the
statement was false.
Yet
truth is a relationship within communication. One might ask if
communication is subjective or objective equally well. Truth is a
relationship amidst words rather than a thing in-itself, except as a
relationship about words. Thus John begins his gospel with, In the
beginning was the word. One realizes that Jesus, and God, implicitly
are truth. They not only transcend everything material of the
Universe, they are the authors of it from which everything else that
is not God, is contingent being.
Pontius
Pilot rightly asked 'what is truth' before giving Jesus unto the mob
for sentencing by default. Jesus had said that the kingdom of God is
within you. Also that the truth will make you free. And of course
Jesus is the truth and sets free from the sin-debt (not a relative
and subjective state) those receiving the Lord as their personal
Savior. Pilot did not recognize the truth within or without yet he
was fearful of it, knowing that he knew nothing too well, except for
worldly objective facts such as that he would be chastised by the
Emperor if he let someone go free that some said was a sedulous king.
Sometimes
I open the Bible randomly when I haven't read it in a while and/or am
a bit tired as a way simply to not put off reading it more. Saturday
I took a bicycle up a small mountain topping out around 5000 feet.
After completing the day's exercise, a bit tired, I opened my
Gideon's bible randomly to Matthew 8:1 "When
he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him."
Once again I was mildly shocked at the relevance of the Bible to
situations I am in during life.
That
made me think about Jesus and crowds. The kingdom of God is within
each individual, yet the Lord knows what is within each individual,
and their thoughts, while no other does (except the other two members
of the Trinity). I am glad that no crowd followed me when I came down
from the mountain. I can do without crowds. Jesus did not view crowds
as so many strangers or even acquaintances though. As God, he could
view even a large crowd personally IMO.
Soren
Kierkegaard seems to have taken the inward philosophical path for his
primary development while Hegel should have taken the outward path
more so than he did. IMO The
Phenomenology of Mind is
a brilliant analogy of evolution phenomenalities of the Big Bang
thermodynamic time-arrow so far as it might have been presented in
his day. And though human intellectual development increases too over
time (such as the history of ideas compiles), I believe that
Kierkegaard is far more correct than Hegel with epistemology.
Kierkegaard and Hegel could be said in a way to have been
talking/writing past one another.
Basically
physics differs from epistemology and communications. Communications
allow things to be muddled up very well and easily. Back in the day,
circa 1835, it was too easy to unify philosophically distant topics
such as mind and cosmology in one wrong, or partly correct, system.
Kierkegaard generally avoided the errors of that sort unlike G.W.F.
Hegel (though I like Hegel's works too). Words probably have a
nominal character rather than Platonic realist, and one uses them
freely with whatever degree of skill one has. Some people could use
more words and better learning, while others might be better off with
less.
Language
is a phenomenal tool with the original application of a
field-expedient utilitarian pragmatic nature. It is
still used to allow individuals to learn more about the experience of
life and where they are at, as well as what to consider true or
false. Language exists with lexicons each with a personal ontology
(according to Quine). Mass, energy, the quantum field wherein people
are embedded and self-aware as well as aware of others, are aspects
of being. Some want to locate this or that phenomenon in coordinate A
or B...N with absolute precision, while the field itself is only
relatively located withing the great unknown.
