From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- 98-hez-philosophy.txt | 31 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 98-hez-philosophy.txt (limited to '98-hez-philosophy.txt') diff --git a/98-hez-philosophy.txt b/98-hez-philosophy.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1c50310..0000000 --- a/98-hez-philosophy.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ ---- -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