The European's etymology of truth is said to have come from Anglo-Saxon "fidelity"; from Old English for "soothe," as from "soothsayer" (a teller of the truth about the future); from "stable" or "steadfast"; or from the etymon (true) of the word etymology ("the literal sense of a word"). Ancient European philosophers assumed there existed an objective truth but the Greek Pythagoras (480-411 BC) said truth is relative and what is true for her may not be true for him. Plato (360-220 BC) stated we could know truth by sublimating our minds to its original purity.
 Joseph A. Bailey, II M.D., F.A.C.S.
By lacking general agreement on the concept of Truth, Western philosophy has no definition for truth and the subject remains chaotic. The Old Testament defines truth as the sum total of the reality of the universe of God and the correspondence of the known facts of existence with that reality. The New Testament says truth is reality as believers are able to experience it through choices guided by God. During the Dark Ages truth converted from a private commitment to a publicly assessed quality. Example: winning a "Trial of Arms" (a duel type battle) was the way to determine who was telling the truth-- even in spite of contrary evidence. Medieval Knights presented Truth-- on paper but not in practice-- as loyal behavior and chivalry.
Hypocritically, the knight of Chaucer's (1340-1400) "Franklins' Tale" said that "truth is the highest thing that man may keep". Today, European truth is characterized as factual, demonstrable, and impersonal. European dictionaries define it as the state of being true. "True" is defined as agreeing with fact and a fact as constituting "reality". Truth, according to the Correspondence theory is what corresponds to reality; in the Coherence theory, to whatever coheres with a system of ideas; and in the Pragmatic theory, to that which works. However, legally, "fact" has a wide range of definitions. Now, do you clearly understand "Truth"?
Without starting from a spiritual base, there can be no clarity. Without complete knowledge of the truth one's mind is in foundational chaos; one's morals are flexible; and one is totally self-centered. These features of European males spring from considering themselves, and not God, as the highest authority in the universe. Thus, they have no rigid control over the manner in which they express their morals; they can not think on multiple planes of existence; and their minds are fixed on one path-which, of course, cages creativity.
To honor analysis as masculine and disregard synthesis as feminine and weak blinds them to love, peace, harmony, and spiritual truths. Without a spiritual base, their system of values focuses on acquiring precious scarce materials as their ultimate purpose in life. Envy and an inferiority complex disquised as a superiority complex cause them to refuse to recognize the brilliance of Ancient Black Africans in any respect, including the fact that Africans were the source of European's best philosophy, major religions, etc. To disregard the source is to disregard what it takes to generate a foundational base for the truth. Unfortunately, many Black scholars now being educated in the Eurocentric system have lost their spiritual base for philosophical thought. They are "root-lessly" unstable and join Europeans in aimless philosophical drifting.
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Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.
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