ts many reflections. One of
them is the possibility that one of the functions of the time-binding
energy in its pure form, in the highest abstraction (_M_), works
automatically--machine-like, as it were, shaping _correctly_ the product of
its activity, but whether _truly_ is another matter. Mathematics does not
presume that its conclusions are true, but it does assert that its
conclusions are correct; that is the inestimable value of mathematics.
This becomes a very comprehensive fact if we approach and analyse the
mathematical processes as some branch (_M_) of the time-binding process,
which they are; then this process at once becomes impersonal and cosmic,
because of the time-binding involved in it, no matter what _time_ is (if
there is such a thing as time).

Is the succession of cosmos, bios, logos, time-binding taking us right
back to cosmos again? Now if we put _psychological_ axioms into the
time-binding apparatus, it will thrash out the results _correctly_, but
whether the results are _true_ is another question.

To be able to talk about these problems I have to introduce three new
definitions, which are introduced only for practical purposes. It may
happen that after some rewording these definitions may become scientific.

I will try to define "truth" and for this purpose I will divide the
concept "truth" into three types:

(1) Psychological, or private, or relative truth, by which I will mean
such conceptions of the truth as any one person possesses, but different
from other types of truth ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}1, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}2, ... {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}n)

(2) Scientific truth ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}s), by which I will mean a psychological truth when
it is approved by the time-binding faculties or apparatus in the present
stage of our development. This scientific truth represents the
"bound-up-time" in our present knowledge; and finally,

(3) The absolute truth, which will be the _final definition_ of a
phenomenon based upon the final knowledge of _primal causation valid in
infinity_.

For simplicity's sake I will use the signs {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}1, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}2, ... {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}n for the
"psychological," "private," or "relative" truths, between which, for the
moment, I will not discriminate.

{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}s1, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}s2, ... {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}sn, will be used for scientific truths,