Conclusion Regarding the Fallibility of the Formal.

Conclusion Regarding the Fallibility of the Formal.

 

I have defined the Formal as that which is a relationship directly between Mind and Word, in the absence of Being. I affirm Heidegger’s notion that Truth must be dependent upon the Comportment of not only Mind and Word but also Being.

The Process of Thought may be carried out calmly and with freedom even whilst vigilant of its shortcomings. Yet because of these shortcomings, one must note that simple logic, which belongs to the Formal, can never allow us to arrive at Truth; the moment that we try to, we are overcast with the Black Void of our own human fallibility and the black-light of Doubt is shone in the Darkness as a challenge to the sanity of Common Sense.

For this reason, Rationalism will always fail, except where it is used dynamically in conjunction with a specific circumstance or vague Universal or constant.

For my sources: Try playing an instrument whilst thinking quietly to one’s self, but never daring to speak aloud one’s thoughts. One may get the impression that the music lies on one axis of time and the process of thought, having BEEN thought to have been nearly instantaneous, actually stretches out over indefinite time, is only understood at intervals (like Lincoln-Logs), and fails to create the clear picture or even the (sensation of a) completed structure, either never coming to fruition or, if it has, never making that fruition certain, apparent, or distinguishable from any pre-existing structure.

Thought definitely is happening, but this “Clear and self-evident Truth” is no longer available outside of one’s own comfort zone. The process of thought can only be carried out calmly and with security if there is NOT the vested interest of finding some reliable Authority within it.

Dm.A.A.