Truth?

By: Andrew Sakach

Book Topic: 1

In the beginning of the year we were talking about how myth's reveal the scope of reality which is what is true. With this idea and the other ideas about discussed from our readings it lead me to draw up a picture of Truth and Understanding.

The picture has a big circle on it and everything on the inside of the circle is Truth while everything on the outside of the circle is Not Truth. The line that makes up the circle is labeled Myth, the scope of our cosmos. However Reality is everywhere in and out of the lines. Truth given to us through our mythos explains the reality that it encompasses, everything outside of that reality is either interpreted as not true or not real.

I wonder if it's possible to understand reality to be all true, therefor having an all encompassing circle, however the nature of the metaphor is that there is a line that includes and secludes, so like Heidegger's Gestalt, can we both perceive a truth and see all truths? Or can we only see one truth at the expense of another?