(BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE (2) [continued(6)])[14th April 1987]

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What I think this* means is that there is a class of phenomena which we may correctly describe as having objective reality** even though they can only be perceived (and thus validated) through the inner sense: which I have called Qualities (I do not think these are the same as Properties of external phenomena, e.g. softness of touch, smell, colour: if there is doubt, what we are talking about should be described as Inner Qualities, as they are independent of such external phenomena).

Once this is accepted, it follows that any statement made truthfully (and not misunderstood) maintaining*** personal perception of an Inner Quality must not only be absolutely true as a statement (following the content of the statement's description, rather than the label), but must I think also maintain*** a personal perception of something that has the quality of absolute truth****; and if it has the quality of absolute truth, the Inner Quality must presumably embody an aspect of The Absolute Truth.#

*[See last previous entry.]

**Objective reality: i.e. existence independent of the particular observer (but see [[Redbook3:184-193][19870414:1003#](BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE (2) [continued(#)])[14th April 1987] at] p193).

***[i.e. claiming, claim (presumably).]

****The quality of absolute truth: i.e. there can be no possible doubt (once it is identified) that it exists. This is not true of any external phenomena.

#The Ultimate Objective.

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