If I try to prove what I mean, I mean it before I prove it. Something proceeds first that ration and reason must try to connect to. Proof merely follows meaning. Meaning, naked intent, is the first and prime movement of the mind to formulate its ideas into coherence with what perceptions there are. The perceptions hit, the ideas are just reflexes of the mind, and the meaning (intention, cause-and-effect, formulation) is the active soulish part of the human mind.
It's clear we are not animals. To an animal, if the forest speaks, one must quickly run to avoid harm. To a human, if the forest speaks, we tilt our head to understand. It is automatic. It is not in the world outside of us, it is the world built inside of us. Meaning is humanity - the imagio deo that must create raw precept from outside itself into its own image (or a reasonable facsimile). Nothing exists for us as raw data, it always fits into a larger framed hypothesis. We are meaning.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
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