What Is Truth?
The question of what it means for a claim to be true.
Pillar 7 of 8
Submission to Science and Truth
Willingness to follow evidence, question assumptions, and revise beliefs when warranted. Not blind obedience to scientists or institutions.
In the author's words
Submission in Tokenism is not submission to authority or fear. It means submitting to verified truth, evidence, ethics, legality, and scientific reasoning. When evidence changes, understanding is allowed to change.
Submission not to a deity or authority, but to science, truth, logic, and verified data.
Topics in Submission to Science and Truth
16 topics. Topics with a link have original writings or articles; topic overviews are editorial.
TOKENISM's Definition of Truth
How the TOKENISM writings define truth.
Objective Reality
The world as it is, independent of what anyone believes about it.
Subjective Experience
How things seem from the inside, and why that is not always how they are.
Belief vs Reality
Why sincerely held belief and reality can differ.
Evidence vs Faith
Accepting a claim because of evidence versus accepting it on trust.
Scientific Method
Observation, hypothesis, experiment, review and revision.
Falsifiability
The requirement that a scientific claim could in principle be shown wrong.
Verification and Replication
Independent checking and repeating of results.
Scientific Consensus
What the community of researchers has concluded from the evidence, and how it can change.
Uncertainty and Probability
Holding conclusions with confidence proportional to evidence.
Limits of Human Perception
What our senses and intuitions cannot detect or grasp.
Superstition and Scientific Literacy
How understanding the natural world reduces the grip of superstition.
Pseudoscience
Claims that look scientific but do not follow scientific method.
Intellectual Honesty
Following the evidence even when the result is unwelcome.
Evaluating Sources
Asking who says it, how they know, and who else confirms it.
Relevant scriptures
20 writings connected to this pillar through its topics.
Teaching
Truth & Science
Truth and science form one of the most critical foundations of Tokenism. Tokenism accepts only verified, cross-checked, evidence-based true data. Whether data is old or…
Principle
Create Your Own God (CYOG)
Create Your Own God (CYOG) is a philosophical principle in Pure TOKENISM that gives every human complete freedom to imagine and define God according to their own…
Teaching
The World Is Built by Thinkers
The world is built by thinkers, not by believers. This statement reflects a fundamental principle of Tokenism: progress comes from thinking, questioning, and…
Teaching
Human-Created Beliefs
When we observe life on Earth objectively, we see millions of species that have lived, are living, and have gone extinct. Among all these life forms, only humans have…
Teaching
God, Religion & Psychology
Tokenism approaches the concept of God through understanding, not belief. It recognizes that God, religion, and human psychology are deeply interconnected and cannot be…
Doctrine & summary
The Pledge, Elaborated
The pledge of Tokenism is not a ritual or an oath of blind belief. It is a conscious declaration of intent, responsibility, and mindset. By taking this pledge, an…
Doctrine & summary
Introduction
Tokenism is a modern, evolving religion and human philosophy created for the betterment of humanity. It exists not to control, divide, or instill fear, but to empower…
Teaching
History & True Data
Tokenism emphasizes that history should never be forgotten. History contains valuable lessons about human behavior, decisions, mistakes, progress, and survival.
Doctrine & summary
Complete Explained Doctrine
Tokenism is a modern, evolving religion and human philosophy created for the survival, unity, and growth of humanity. It replaces fear with confidence, belief with…
Hypothesis
The Origin of Life
In Tokenism, the origin of life is not treated as a settled belief but as an open scientific question. Life did not necessarily begin with a literal seed, nor does it…
Reflection
The Possibility of Alien Life
Tokenism approaches the question of alien life through science, probability, and openness. It neither blindly believes nor dismisses the possibility of life beyond Earth.
Reflection
Humility of Science
Tokenism values one of the most humble and powerful qualities of science: the ability to say, “We do not know, but we want to know.” Science does not pretend to have all…
Reflection
Absolute Zero & Infinite Temperature
KEET often reflects on scientific concepts that challenge human intuition. One such idea is the nature of temperature in the universe. KEET states that it breaks his…
Reflection
Astrophysics & the Human Ego
“If you ever want to crush your ego, your greed, and open your mind towards the world, just learn about the basics of astrophysics.” — KEET
Hypothesis
Multiple Energies & Freedom of Thought
KEET believes that the universe may not have originated from a single, perfect, all-defining energy commonly referred to as God. Instead, he speculates that multiple…
Teaching
No Superstition
Tokenism clearly rejects superstition in all forms. Beliefs that are not supported by evidence, logic, or scientific verification are not accepted as truth within…
KEET's perspective
From Fear to Education
In TOKENISM, KEET argues that many supernatural concepts—including miracles, paranormal phenomena, heavens and hells, ghosts, demons, black magic, and supernatural…
Teaching
Knowledge and Fear
Tokenism is built on a simple but powerful principle: the more you know, the less you fear; the less you know, the more you fear.
Hypothesis
Neutrinos & God: Open Speculation
As a Pure Tokenist, KEET approaches the concept of God not through belief or worship, but through curiosity, science, and openness to being proven wrong. This…
Teaching
Evolution & Updates
Tokenism is not a fixed or rigid religion. It is designed as a living, evolving human philosophy that updates itself according to new verified data and deeper…
Educational articles and pages
Page
Truth
How TOKENISM defines truth, a supplementary working definition, and plain-language explanations of reality, belief, evidence, knowledge, subjective experience, objective…
Educational article
Fear and Control
How fear shapes judgment, how threats, shame and uncertainty are used to influence people, how misinformation exploits gaps in scientific understanding, and how evidence…