When in doubt about the nature of truth and the way philosophical truth applies to religion, call in our time's philosopher par excellence. MA: "There's no Chinese physics; there is no Japanese physics or Hindu physics or mathematics or technology ... In some sense the whole world has been Westernized by technology, has it not? ..." WFB: "And do you predict-" MA: "That in due course people will be aware of the fact that acting and living and using the truths of these transcultural elements in their culture requires them to face up to the inconsistency between what is asserted logically in technology and physics and mathematics, and what they hold in their religions." ... WFB: "If you can foretell the collapse of the non-rational aspects of the religions you cite ... then why can you not forecast a recognition of the truths of religion within our own culture?" MA: "Because our own culture ... is dominated by a philosophy that's made a mockery of truth: positivism. It asserts that the only truths we have are the truths of science."