Duality

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Duality

Philosophy is far easier to understand than most people make it out to be. Its objective is to determine which of our intuitions can be relied on, and its motivation is an unceasing vindictive spite for the observation that seemingly all that we call knowledge is founded on intuition. The more sage the philosopher, the more intensely they're passive-aggressively telling the nature of human awareness 'I'm not mad, just disappointed.'
- July 17, 2019
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1. Frostgage
  
  Question everything, especially your questions
  
  July 17, 2019
2. Widdershins
  
  Perhaps it comes down to accepting self-trust.
  
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  July 17, 2019
3. Duality
  
  @Frostgage
  
  but then infinite regression and brainhurt
  
  @Widdershins
  
  The issue is that you clearly can't trust all parts of yourself on all matters, because then (as quite easily observable in the gullible 'self-trust' of children) you'd be trying to murder people whenever you got angry and thinking that swirly patterns of light actually appear in reality whenever you rub your eyes, to say nothing of being insufferably closed-minded on matters of opinion and similar traps of 'self-trust' fallen into even by adults. Much to the analyst's chagrin, naive perceptions and deep existential intuitions are two ends of the same cognitive rainbow, and the whole deal with philosophy is figuring out where the illusory colours meet the pot of gold.
  
  July 17, 2019
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