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The importance of this article to psychoanalytic work is that we must keep in mind that 'truth' is a man-made concept, and the most important things in life fall far outside the realm of truth and falsity. We can not declare a truth or falsity on things that can not be put into logical formulas and tested for soundess and validity. We live in a culture that is desperate for 'knowing the truth' as an attempt at establishing security, but it is an illusion, we can not ever know what is true when we enter into metaphysical concepts. Like Schopenhauer said, a complete and balanced philosophy contains half logic and half metaphysic, to have only one or the other is to see only half of ourselves in the mirror, thinking that we see all there is. There is an unmistakable order to thought and to the laws of physics, but there is also the metaphysic which holds it all together, and that we cannot measure, it is not visible; it can only be felt and speculated upon. My own view is to see things as a mitigated skeptic; that is, to think in terms of probabilities rather than absolutes. We must try to get as close to the truth as we can while knowing that we can never find the whole truth. I believe that the consequences of a belief are more important than the belief. In essence, no matter how much science or logic we may like to use, we still decide what is true the same way we did back in the Dark Ages: by how true something 'feels' to us.