Our Qualitative Existence

Objects are ideas of assumed entities conceived in the mind. Their modifying qualities are perceived in the world by the senses. The essentials of a qualitative existence are succinctly summarized in a statement published in the Book of Mormon in 1830. In the statement Joseph Smith introduced the phrase "a compound in one," which effectively challenges the claims of the intellectual establishment and successfully addresses questions regarding the difference between knowledge and belief that from ancient times to the present have confounded the best minds of science, religion, and philosophy.