The Nature of Truth
By Tom Brown
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The fundamental questions we must ask are: What , How , Why ?
“What?” concerns physical observations and experiments, and records kept, consisting of essentially data and facts, and in essence indisputable.
“How?” is in explaining, consisting of knowledge and interpretation and where predictions might be made and can be tested, it is the realm of scientific theory and mathematics.
“Why?” is in the realm of the mystical, the deepest level of knowledge itself of philosophy, wisdom and religion, and in its meaning such as in theosophy and metaphysics.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
– TS Elliot
Where is the information we have lost in data? Where is the intelligence we have lost in artificial intelligence?
Wisdom ultimately is the study of the nature of truth and consisting of irrefutable logic and faith in the existence of an absolute supreme being which could be possibly part of this universe, or of other unknown substance of reality, influencing our world separated and independent of it.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth
– Aristotle
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