From 7f93c5f7205bc1cc0c2e21694fd10880eec51aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:54:41 -0700 Subject: Add Hezekiah; Work out YAML metainfo" --- 98-hez-philosophy.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 98-hez-philosophy.txt (limited to '98-hez-philosophy.txt') diff --git a/98-hez-philosophy.txt b/98-hez-philosophy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c50310 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-philosophy.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: 'Philosophy' +project: 'Book of Hezekiah' +project-order: 3 +project-prev: 'purpose-dogs.html' +project-next: 'proverbs.html' +genre: 'prose' +... + +Importance is important. But meaning is meaningful. Here we are at the +crux of the matter, for both meaning and importance are also +human-formed. So it would seem that nothing is important or meaningful, +if importance and meaning are of themselves only products of the +fallible human intellect. But here is the great secret: *so is the +fallibility of the human intellect a mere product of the fallible human +intellect.* The question here arises: Is anything real, and not a mere +invention of a mistaken human mind? By 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. But 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. So +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. + +By this it is possible to see that nothing is knowable without the +mediating factor of our mind fucking up the "[raw][]," the "real" world. But +by this time it would seem that this chapter is far far too +philosophical, not to mention pretentious, so I must try again. + +[modification]: i-am.html +[raw]: spittle.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81