No, it's all three of those. Consciousness, observation, and logic.

Do you ever make mistakes? Get it wrong?

Yes. Making mistakes is part of discovering the truth.

How do you know you have made an error?

Why do you ask so many questions?

Curiosity.

How can you tell when you have made an error?

With logic.

How does logic help?

It basically helps you reach conclusions in reality. By holding non-contradictory ideas.

So you know that reality is consistent?

Consistent in what way?

It contains no contradictions.

Yep.

And you know this... because?

It's evident that reality doesn't contradict itself.

It's evident? From observation? But that you have not so far found a contradiction does not mean that there are none. One might come up in the next observation.

A is A.
A cannot be B or whatever else.

Contradictions are impossible.

Thinking that a contradiction could happen or wanting to achieve a contradiction in reality will only lead to disastrous consequences.

A cannot be B or whatever else. — AppLeo

The morning star can't be the evening star?

You can call something a different name, but that doesn't change what it actually is.

You can call me AppLeo or call me by something else, but the essence of me is still me.

When we say that A is B, aren't we either just calling it a different name or focusing on a different set of facts about it, a la morning and evening star?

If A = 5
And B = 8
Does A = B?
Does 5 = 8?

No.

A = A
5 = 5
8 = 8

What would you say that has to do with the question I just asked?

The idea isn't that A is necessarily B. It's that "A can not be B" is false.

I don't really know what you mean.

Are you saying that reality can contradict itself? That 5 = 8?

he morning star — Terrapin Station

I get the reference

I don't really know what you mean. — AppLeo

Quote something I said that you specifically do not understand.

When we say that A is B, aren't we either just calling it a different name or focusing on a different set of facts about it, a la morning and evening star? — Terrapin Station

I don't understand this.

Consider the postulate: The only tool we have available to provide support or not for the truth of anything is application of the scientific method. — Scribble

Here's an interesting thing. Any properly written software program resolves down to one giant if statement. That's worth thinking about.

Hello, so it seems to me like the scientific method is to communicate shared experiences, observations, results, in order to explain collected data. It is true information only if results are recorded. It is truth if the results can be replicated every attempt at performing the experiment.
I really dont want to be the one to say that the truth is, none of us will ever know what is true or what is not true because even feelings can be deceiving. Limitations are not even true such as natural laws governing matter are being broken at the quantum level. I really want to think of another method for all of you and the only thing that comes to mind is learning. For example, as a child you are forced to obey parents or guardians and listen to what they say is true because their actions brought you to exist. They provide for you and seems to be true until you are able to actively think about what has been said or shown. Knowledge seems to im'prove' your chance for existence and that is our tool to find safety and comfort. Here are some truths I struggle with : you need to consume water or fluids to live, all mammals bleed, and all information can be disputed. Thank you.

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I don't think you understand what I mean when I say contradiction. I'm not saying that there can't be paradoxes like cold and hot. What I'm saying is that something can't be cold and hot at the same time. A penguin can't also be a rooster. A pineapple is a fruit, but doesn't mean a pineapple can also not be a fruit.