Alex Bennett
1 min readJul 23, 2023

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Thank you very much for making me aware of your ideas! Your points all resonated with me, and based on my understanding so far, I completely agree: “the top level is inside our minds is non-functional” and “the only certainty is uncertainty shows us a certainty albeit a negative one” and “a truth is not a truth unless its context is declared at the same time.”

The last of those quotes reflects the primary idea of truth units—its hoped-for value—which is that a truth requires a context (and if there is a “context”—an “experience”—then there is a truth). You could say a truth unit is the signifier and the experience is the signified (a la Saussurre). Signifier and signified are precisely, unambiguously related to one through the elements of truth units—claim, test, evaluation, result, verdict.

Personally, I don’t see how you can build human knowledge any other way—although people seem to yearn for something less ethereal. I hope for further dialog!

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Alex Bennett
Alex Bennett

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My goal on Medium has been to publish “Truth Units.” It took 1.5 years. I hope you read it. New articles will respond in-depth to your questions and critiques.

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