Tuesday, 12 November 2019
The inherent uncertainty of experience is not that there is an unbridgeable gap between subject and object, like two partners in a marriage who bring incompatible gifts to the union, the epistemic and the ontological, but that such a gap is called for but remains itself uncertain. The division into subject and object only happens later anyway in a subsequent moment of deep reflection. Then it is more like a divorce and the problem is the impossibility of making a division of property. That there are two sides seems clear but in their union they are so mutually contaminating that it is impossible to draw any line between them. The problem ought not to be able to arise at all and this means that the uncertainty itself, what is taken as the negative in experience, is not to be bridged but must become the sole positive and prior to any such notions as subject and object, knowing and being.
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