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  %TRUE RELIABLE STATEMENTS TRUTH HONESTY INTEGRITY 920907

     We regard people of integrity to be reliable  because
they  reliably speak the truth;  make reliable  statements
which  lead  us to expect correctly what will follow.   We
regard  their  statements to be true,  and regard them  as
persons  to  be  true persons of  integrity---because  the
expectations which they generate in us are fulfilled.   We
see them as bearing significant responsibility for leading
us to  correctly expect what we see come to be true in our
experience.

     The  nature  of TRUTH is wrapped up in the nature  of
reliability and expectations;  and so is wrapped up in how
we  are  led  to  expect  whatever it is that we  come  to
expect.  Thus the nature  of  TRUTH  is  wrapped up in the
relationships within which  we participate as followers in
being led to expect whatever it is we come to expect,  and
in  discovering when our expectations were (or  were  not)
reliable  expectations.   We may be misled  by  statements
which  may  be  shown to be objectively  true  statements;
especially if we want to be misled and want to expect what
may  not  reasonably  be expected.  We may then blame  the
person  who  made  the  true  statements---for  our  false
expectations.

     Truth,  honesty,  reliability,  and expectations  are
reflexive  realities.  To regard them as purely  objective
realities   is   misleading,   leading    to    unreliable
expectations.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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