On Truth

Dear X,

You asked me do I write. Yes I do. I used to write and was productive before love stroke me. I am getting over it and becoming normal again. This evening I put some of my notes out from a dusty self and started collecting them again.

I am writing to you about "Truth" - The Manifest Truth and How to grasp it.

The manifest truth is out the there naked. We are the ones who tend not to look at it. The truth is in the book of nature, we just have to spell it out [Sir Karl Popper].

Dear X, one way is the Baconian way, that is to purge our mind of all anticipation or conjectures or guesses or prejudice. Socrates way is to find counter instances of the things. These counter instances will help in destroying the prejudices we have - through tradition, false belief. Such that instead of justifying our beliefs of truth, about our knowledge, i.e. instead of looking at what is true about our beliefs we must try to find problems and try to correct those problems. Try not to devote all your efforts on justification trying to proof that you are right. Try to criticise your belief to get new beliefs. By a little exercise of cleansing our mind of prejudices and scrutiny can we be able to move in the right path of knowing what is true and what is false. Here I have used the phrase "in the right path" because we don't know what is the end truth - the absolute truth. To say that we have the total truth (the total or complete truth doesn't exist in my view) is to say that we are now stoping here - stoping progress in that area.

All in all our source of knowledge has to be pure, like an innocent eye [as Karl Popper says] we have to look at the truth. Any impure source, i.e. having apriori position, leads to ignorance [Plato]. 

Scrutiny and Doubt helps :)