This becomes a very comprehensive fact if we approach and analyse the
mathematical processes as some branch (_M_) of the time-binding process,
which they are; then this process at once becomes impersonal and cosmic,
because of the time-binding involved in it, no matter what _time_ is (if
there is such a thing as time).
Is the succession of cosmos, bios, logos, time-binding taking us right
back to cosmos again? Now if we put _psychological_ axioms into the
time-binding apparatus, it will thrash out the results _correctly_, but
whether the results are _true_ is another question.
To be able to talk about these problems I have to introduce three new
definitions, which are introduced only for practical purposes. It may
happen that after some rewording these definitions may become scientific.
I will try to define “truth” and for this purpose I will divide the
concept “truth” into three types:
(1) Psychological, or private, or relative truth, by which I will mean
such conceptions of the truth as any one person possesses, but different
from other types of truth (α1, α2, ... αn)
(2) Scientific truth (αs), by which I will mean a psychological truth when
it is approved by the time-binding faculties or apparatus in the present
stage of our development. This scientific truth represents the
“bound-up-time” in our present knowledge; and finally,
(3) The absolute truth, which will be the _final definition_ of a
phenomenon based upon the final knowledge of _primal causation valid in
infinity_.
For simplicity’s sake I will use the signs α1, α2, ... αn for the
“psychological,” “private,” or “relative” truths, between which, for the
moment, I will not discriminate.
αs1, αs2, ... αsn, will be used for scientific truths, and finally
αinfinity for the absolute truth valid in infinity.
To make it easier to explain, I will illustrate the suggestions by an
example. Let us suppose that the human time-binding capacities or energies
in the _organic_ chemistry correspond to radium in the _inorganic_
chemistry; being of course of different dimensions and of absolutely
different character. It may happen, for it probably is so, that the
complex time-binding energy has many different stages of development and
different kinds of “rays” _A_, _B_, _C_, ... _M_....
Let us suppose that the so-called mental capacities are the _M_ rays of
the time-binding energy; the “spiritual” capacities, the _A_ rays; the
“will” powers, the _B_ rays; and so on. Psychological truths will then be
a function of all rays together, namely _A_ _B_ _C_ ... _M_ ... or _f_
(_A_ _B_ _C_ ... _M_ ...), the character of any “truth” in question will
largely depend upon which of these elements prevail.
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