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title: Philosophy
genre: prose

project:
    title: Book of Hezekiah
    css: hezekiah
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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