(BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE (2) [continued(8)])[14th April 1987]

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However, while this* possibility of inaccurate perception (as I have said)* does not cast doubt upon the Objective Reality of Qualities which are perceived with an inner sense; nor upon their own Quality of Absolute Truth; nor upon the absolutely true nature of a statement truthfully describing inner perception of such a Quality; (once we have accepted the Objective Reality of Inner Qualities as a Class which can only be perceived by an Inner Sense, we are bound to accept the Objective Reality of any Inner Quality truthfully** so described, whether we understand it or not, and whether anyone else has experienced it or not); what the possibility of inaccurate perception does suggest is that there may still be a difference of clarity between what the speaker perceived and the objective reality, as between the absolutely true statement and the absolute truth of the quality, depending solely upon his own nature clouding his inner sense.

How is that different from external perception? Science shows us that things are not what they seem; that the further into them you investigate, the less they are revealed as like what they appeared [sic] to us to be; and that there always seems to be another level further 'in', with no scientific philosophy to show where this may end.*** The more you delve, in other words, the less certain and the more cloudy things seem to become.****

The more you delve into Inner Qualities, on the other hand, the clearer they become, and the more certain; and the better you perceive the objective reality of the Quality; and the implication of this Objective Reality, and of the Quality of Absolute Truth, inherent in these Qualities, is that the next level within or beyond them is the Absolute Truth itself.

*[See last previous entry.]

**[For “truthfully” it might generally be easier to understand “honestly” throughout the entries discussing Belief and Knowledge, given the increasing difficulty contemporary culture appears to have in distinguishing between untruthfulness and mistake. <20160305>]

***I am not knocking Science, which in its philosophy is also able to conceive of the Absolute Truth but not (I think) to identify objective reality by experimental methods.

****(But they also grow uncertain the more applied they are.) <891001>

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