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On QUORA: How do I know the truth?

Truth is established when a hypothesis meets both the necessary and sufficient conditions. Note especially that the proposed hypotheses must be disprovable.

1. The necessary condition is met when a hypothesis explains the observed situation.
2. The sufficient condition is met when all but one hypothesis, including unknown hypotheses, have been disproven.

In other words, one and only one hypothesis is permitted as an explanation for the observed. This requirement is essential for the hypothesis to be declared the ABSOLUTE truth.

The above process means further:

1. The necessary condition is achieved only through PROOF (perceptual models);
   1. Consider this step decision-making (occurs in the habit-brain–see image below);
   2. The decision-making person, because they are proving truth, draws upon what they already know within the SELF (see the habit-brain–see image below);
2. Whereas the sufficient condition is achieved only through DISPROOF (conceptual models);
   1. This particular step is reason (see reason–image below);
   2. This is the PURSUIT of truth. The process never concludes because of the unknown hypotheses. This is why the reasoning person cannot claim truth. They cannot ever know the unknown hypothesis.
   3. When all known hypotheses but one are disproved, the surviving hypothesis becomes OBJECTIVE TRUTH. For any given moment, that is enough. If a new hypothesis emerges, objective truth becomes, again, subjective truth, and the process of reason begins anew.