Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Truth is created, not discover!
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
Talking about creating truth tends to alarm people, because truth is meant to be 'just out there'. It doesn't take much thinking to appreciate that we sometimes change truths on the ground - sometimes just by words. A new law will change what is possible. I think - perhaps because the paradigm we follow tends to be scientific, and all about discovery - the creative element of truth is one upon which we don't focus so much attention. This is particularly so in anglophone philosophy, perhaps because we associate it too much with those 'pernicious' continental trends.
