I found this essay around the end of college.
I strongly recommend it to anybody who's cared enough to participate in this thread.
http://educ.jmu.edu//~omearawm/ph101willtobelieve.html
That is a very Te/Fi perspective. That is, the the idea that if truth is not something totally externally verifiable, that it is then a chosen subjective belief. It exalts the will.
However, I believe that there is something not considered. There exist logical principles that people can be convinced represent truth, regardless of their personal feelings towards those principles. There also exist assumptions which are necessary in order to use most systems of logic, or function in everyday life. These assumptions are:
1. The idea that our senses give us accurate data about the world around us.
2. The idea that our minds are capable of perceiving the difference between reality and fantasy.
3. The idea that there is a difference between reality and fantasy, and between accuracy and falsehood.
One must either accept those assumptions, or behave as though they did, in order to function.
The basic idea upon which all logical systems are founded, is that reality can be organized upon spectrums and dichotomies, because those are the only things which our logical minds are capable of processing. If reality is organized in any other way, then it is outside of our perception, and incomprehensible.
What one believes to be truth, is not always chosen by the will, but is often derived from unconscious principles and assumptions that come from various sources... such a society, experience, and more. Some may even be biological in origin. We cannot choose to reject such principles with any degree of conviction, because some part of us would always see the rejection as absurd, even if we willed the rejection.
Thus, while logical principles may not be totally objective, this does not validate the assumption that they are a product purely born of conscious will. There are such things as impersonal principles and ideas, that a person believes against their will, even if there are no such things as impersonal truths.