Questions · Ultimate Questions
Must truth be “correctly known” for it to hold?
Direct answer
Zai-Sheng Thought’s answer leans toward: no. If a thing can only be established after some subject has correctly seen it, known it, and realized it, then its establishment still depends on a knower. Zai and Sheng go one step further in asking: before there is that step of “I have seen the truth,” is what is happening already present? If the answer is yes, then “correct knowing” can occur, but it is not a license for the fundamental existence.
Further explanation
This is also where Zai-Sheng Thought is worth comparing with many expressions that take “awakening, recognizing, seeing the real” as their endpoint. The books do not deny the value of seeing; what they refuse is letting the “seer” sit back down in the final position. If truth is truly fundamental, it should not stop holding simply because no one announces “I now know.”
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Conclusions that must not be drawn
It must not be reversed into “knowing is worthless” or “there is no need to distinguish true from false.” What is discussed is whether the establishment of the fundamental depends on a final knower.
Related phrasings
Is truth only truth once someone has known it?Does truth still hold if no one knows it?Does the fundamental need to be realized before it holds?
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