Enigmatic way
Transference function
Point of access
A lucid and authentic penetration into the vacuousness of all finite evidence is the minimum prerequisite needed to receive an intellectual intuition.
“In time the mind comes to reflect on its own operations about the ideas got by sensation, and thereby stores itself with a new set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection.” – John Locke
Grasp reality
Recognize possibilities
Shape cognition
Beyond appearance lies creative potential as a congregation between the particular and the universal. Art supplements the phenomenal world.
“Because essence can only be absolute, it in turn dissolves form into essence eternally in the same way, so that essence and from are perfectly fused.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Synthesized judgment
Differentiated knowledge
Purely privative
The idea of connaturality is expressed by Schelling as ‘absolute identity.’ This transitivity links the two aspects of being – the ever changing multiplicity of the particular with the stable universal. The intrinsic incompleteness of all finite determinations uncovers the complexion of the absolute.
“Existence is the link of a being as One, with itself as a multiplicity.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Possible action
Voluntary decision
Causal connectedness
From among many various alternatives, several suggested routes of travel are promulgated. Leading to divergent outcomes, an existential attitude emphasizes such freedom of choice, as well as the obligation of having to choose, or not.
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” – Umberto Eco
Definitely determined
According to conditions
Described nature
Leading to adaptation, future anticipation depends on comprehending uniformity. Cognitive processes trace homogeneity by designating apparently equivalent phenomena in the same classification. Similarities naturally produce purposive action.
“On the one hand they make the phenomena of the world classifiable and thereby comprehensible; and on the other hand they make possible the development of an organ of comprehension called reason.” – Paul Carus
Essential dimensions
Conditions of existence
Anatomic unity
As we know it, actuality is always slipping away. In an uncertain framework, aesthetics weaves transient circumstances into meaningful narratives.
“The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it.” – Albert Camus
Actual atmosphere
Cumulative force
Return to origins
A certain amount of aesthetic exploration helps to maintain interest in the accumulation of ordinary experience. In a curious sense, where I stand is always in an artistic laboratory, with excess energy strewing innovative designs about.
“Each is a link in an endless chain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Natural forms
Accurate reality
Provides knowledge
Refractive transparent shapes cause wavelength dispersion as light propagates through space. Forms are object essences without which a thing would not be the kind of thing that it is.
“If a person were to show that all is one by partaking of one, and at the same time many by partaking of many, would that be very astonishing. But if he were to show me that the absolute one was many, or the absolute many one, I should be truly amazed.” – Parmenides
Improvise insolently
Implicit proprieties
Inventive incipit
A roadside attraction that is oblivious to its charms opens up at high speed. All things move relative to one another except the speed of light that is perhaps an absolute universal frame of reference.
“Contrary to what phenomenology–which is always phenomenology of perception–has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.” – Jacques Derrida
Discourse trajectory
Itinerary consequence
Deciphered destination
Even under a full moon, if the air is clear the stars appear.
“Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.” – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson