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