How does one differentiate truth from doctrine or rhetoric?
Define thou thy terms.
There are experiences that are true prima facie, without doubt, without reason!
They are because they simply cannot be otherwise. If they were not, then nothing would be. Experience as such would collapse into chaos, into oblivion. If we apply those truths stringently, consequently and without mercy we can extricate truth from the follies of doctrine and rhetoric.
Long live Logos!
Rhetoric and doctrine bluff and bluster and thunder and posture. Truth bleeds.
Gairloch