'One thing is the feeling that something is happening,
an intuition which finds what it finds and cannot be made
to find anything else'
the idea here is that in such an intuition - the view is
from the inside - (if there is a view) - i.e. - it sees
what it sees
look we can understand this -
but it's not a terminal position -
we are not just captives of our intuitions
consciousness is not exhausted by it's experience
far from it - beyond this basic level of conscious
behaviour - is the higher - or at least -
post-immediate level of - reflection
so what we experience may be one thing
how we regard this - what kind of place we give
it in our understanding - quite another
and this is the key to understanding scepticism -
the capacity to step back and look
and to step back again -
your back is never against the wall
now when Santayana says - 'it finds what it finds'
this is on the money
what it finds in a pure sense - is just so -
undefined - unknown
we of course always bring to experience all our
knowledge
but what we find is - for our purposes -
dependent on what we know
and so - is only as stable - clear or sure -
as our state of knowing
scepticism is - the conscious process of reflection -
without restraint
what consciousness finds - depends on - when it looks
