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2 | title: Philosophy | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: Book of Hezekiah | ||
7 | css: hezekiah | ||
8 | order: 3 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | title: Proverbs | ||
11 | link: proverbs | ||
12 | prev: | ||
13 | title: The purpose of dogs | ||
14 | link: purpose-dogs | ||
15 | ... | ||
16 | |||
17 | Importance is important. But meaning is meaningful. Here we are at the | ||
18 | crux of the matter, for both meaning and importance are also | ||
19 | human-formed. So it would seem that nothing is important or meaningful, | ||
20 | if importance and meaning are of themselves only products of the | ||
21 | fallible human intellect. But here is the great secret: *so is the | ||
22 | fallibility of the human intellect a mere product of the fallible human | ||
23 | intellect.* The question here arises: Is anything real, and not a mere | ||
24 | invention of a mistaken human mind? By real of course I mean | ||
25 | "that which is *on its own terms*," that is, without any [modification][] on | ||
26 | the part of mankind by observing it. But such a thing is impossible to | ||
27 | be known, for if it be known it has certainly been observed by someone, | ||
28 | and so it is not on its own terms but on the terms of the observer. So | ||
29 | it cannot be known if anything exists on its own terms, for it exists on | ||
30 | its own terms we certainly will not know anything about it. | ||
31 | |||
32 | By this it is possible to see that nothing is knowable without the | ||
33 | mediating factor of our mind fucking up the "[raw][]," the "real" world. But | ||
34 | by this time it would seem that this chapter is far far too | ||
35 | philosophical, not to mention pretentious, so I must try again. | ||
36 | |||
37 | [modification]: i-am.html | ||
38 | [raw]: spittle.html | ||