INTRODUCTION
BETWEEN TRUTH AND ILLUSION signifies an attempt by me to return to
basics in philosophy and understand the connections and indeed interrelations
of antitheses, polarities, opposites, and other such neat philosophical
categories in relation to the relativity of everyday life. It is not an express attempt to expound the
Truth but, rather, a modest undertaking on my part to comprehend the paradoxes
of the world in which we happen to live, and seek to unveil some of the illusions
and superstitions which make the pursuit of Truth such a difficult, not to say
protracted, task. Hopefully the result of this undertaking is a franker and maturer approach
to those very paradoxes which were the inspiration for this work and which led
to some of its most striking contentions.
If BETWEEN TRUTH AND ILLUSION cannot, by dint of its paradoxical
nature, lay claims to being the
Truth, it can at least be seen as the basis for a more realistic appraisal of
the terms by which the pursuit of Truth is made possible.
John O'Loughlin,