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The Question Of Truth The goal of any philosopher is to find what can only be referred to as "truth." Truth is the undeniable, that which can be relied upon in any circumstances, obviously the one thing in life that has real meaning. Unfortunately, truth is quite elusive, as philosophers have been going at the question since Socrates, and no one has produced a definitive answer yet. In the course of my years of reading about the subject, I have accepted only a few concepts as being valid, and I would like to share them now. Rene Descartes essay "The Search For Certainty" should be considered the jump-off point for any discussion about truth. In it, he expounds one of the few hypotheses that possesses no holes-solipsism. It states that a person's own existence is the only thing that they can truly be sure of. The existence of others or...

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