existence is given
how to understand existence is not
is not a given
the question of understanding is the mind reflecting
it is reflection on what is given
what is given is not known
reflection is the knowing
knowledge is characterization of the given -
of the given unknown
how do we characterize what this is -
the characterization of the unknown?
epistemology - is reflection on -
the reflection that is knowing - that is knowledge
there is a necessity about it
it is not as if we choose to know
we must know
knowing is our fundamental activity as human beings
we cannot - do not operate without it
still to characterize the unknown is to what?
it is the question of how best to describe what is
presented
again - the presentation is for all intents and
purposes - necessary
the world we see as human beings -
in its basics is presented
to know it is to conceive it
(conception here is natural - it is what we do)
however the mind does not come to the presentation -
fixed
the basis of conception is uncertainty
presentation is clear
but reflection uncertain
reflection is the process of uncertainty
it is grounded in uncertainty
the mind is essentially - uncertainty
any conception that is ventured
is by its nature uncertain
this is the ground of theory - any theory -
any conception
the basis of this uncertainty - is possibility
the mind brings possibility to the world
knowledge is the expression of this possibility
and the world without mind - without knowledge
what can we say?
I say we don't know
however the fact of the world -
as a primitive
unknown - but primitive
suggests a view
that the world is without possibility
without mind that is
no questions in nature
only if mind
so - overall?
mind in the world -
an indeterminacy
as a fact of
nature
a contingency
and if so -
(and so it seems)
a necessary fact?
well as necessary as any fact
any event or class thereof
before we get ahead of ourselves
good to remember that 'contingency' and 'necessity'
are conceptions
conceptions
of
the unknown
it is always tempting to get above your status and
to speak from the pulpit - sub specie aeternitatis -
as it were
and to imagine you can conceive the totality and
its status
however this is bad logic - or fantasy
beyond what we know - and this is uncertain -
is the unknown
and here you - necessarily - come to an end of
characterization
or if you like the reason for it
