Truth of the Word; and Epistemology, Meta-Physics
and Science.
What is truth and knowledge?
2002
This thought will attempt to
define and clarify the above question. It will investigate purely from a linguistic
perspective; other approaches such as Ontology or Epistemology, or even a
mathematical approach are not included because they are an extension, an
attachment to the science of words. To clarify this, I mean that even with
mathematics, words are and must be used to explain the discipline; or to apply
it. Words are the foundation of knowledge, no matter what meaning is applied;
for example, ’two’, or ‘3’. Both have a knowledge attached to them. No matter
that the ‘perception’ or ‘meaning’ might be contested, the knowledge is
present. And the word is the foundation.
Knowledge is also known as wisdom. This can be said to have
two guises (though there are doubtless more). One is natural-wisdom, the other;
received-wisdom. The latter passes throughout society in the form of ‘words’.
This can be identified as a ‘received sociological paradigm’; it is a
burgeoning extension of ‘natural wisdom’. This meaning that natural wisdom was
explained with words, these words were then passed on.
So this means that all
knowledge has its foundation in words. Truth is in knowledge. Truth is
uncontested knowledge. Truth is a perception of knowledge; more than that,
truth is the perception of deception.