It's a tricky thing, to know something as well as you know yourself, and to choose not to take it as a gnostic representation of truth in a greater context than yourself.
In the end, we play word games, and believe that the words represent something real-- even "spin words" like "justification". But as soon as we spin a foundation, no matter how plausible it seems to us, we spin an entire universe-- our world view-- out of words and little more, because it all stands on that foundation.
This is humanity's greatest achievement, I think: to live in a world completely imagined, and to manage not to know so. For whatever is "out there," it cannot be what is "in here." And what else do I have?
In the end, we play word games, and believe that the words represent something real-- even "spin words" like "justification". But as soon as we spin a foundation, no matter how plausible it seems to us, we spin an entire universe-- our world view-- out of words and little more, because it all stands on that foundation.
This is humanity's greatest achievement, I think: to live in a world completely imagined, and to manage not to know so. For whatever is "out there," it cannot be what is "in here." And what else do I have?
