Jersey Flight: A STATEMENT ON TRUTH

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A STATEMENT ON TRUTH - Jersey Flight

At this point in my life I am inclined to believe that the existence and pursuit of Truth is unimportant (as so many thinkers have thought before me) while the use and pursuit of truth is part of the common fabric of life. Truth as truth is a pragmatic property of man's social function, while Truth as Truth is an abstract ideal, entirely linguistic in construction, having the high purpose of delivering man over to the pursuit of Ghosts. Truth as truth means truth within the context in which truth is presupposed; it means allegiance to precepts that we use for justification, it does not mean, allegiance to precepts because they are justified. In other words, when we say that ghosts do not exist, this statement is true according to the precepts on which this statement is based... the precepts which make this statement intelligible in the first place (we can rightly call these presuppositions). That is to say, we can know truth just so long as we do not confuse it with Truth. All truth is uttered within a paradigm of truth. If one is not aware of this one may end up chasing Ghosts.

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About Me:

Jersey Flight can be considered as a sort of left-wing version of Nietzsche. He is an iconoclast against all forms of cultural superstition, including elitism and academia. His intellectual interests include, defining and expanding the psychological qualities that account for advanced thinking, as well as collaborating a method for its culturation. He has repeatedly challenged intellectuals to transcend theory and fulfill their social responsibility to engage culture through polemics. His writing style is consciously concise; an anti-scholastic, he tries to communicate complex ideas in simple prose. He has written multiple volumes of philosophy that have not yet been released to the public. He is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research.