ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the fundamental "compartment" of culture—to its System of Truth and Knowledge. In an Ideational culture, some system of truth based upon a criterion of validity different from the evidence of our senses has to be dominant. For a purely Ideational culture mentality, the truth of faith has to appear more infallible than human reason and logic. In Sensate periods the situation must be reversed for the same reasons. Sensate mentality turns to the Sensate reality and is eager to study it, and either does not recognize any other reality or is not interested in it. It can also be expected that even within the scientific system of truth of senses the main topics which would be worked out in Sensate and Ideational cultures would also considerably differ. Of these, ideational or religious rationalism, mysticism, and fideism incorporate mainly the truth of faith; the idealistic rationalism, mainly the truth of reason; empiricism, mainly the truth of senses.
