Quora Answer: Metaphilosophy: What is the aim of philosophy?
There is knowledge and and ignorance.
There is ignorance of knowledge and knowledge of ignorance.
There is knowledge of knowledge and ignorance of ignorance.
Prior to knowledge and ignorance there is appearance and opinion.
There is opinions about appearances and appearances of opinion.
There is appearance of appearance and opinion of opinion.
Then there is knowledge of appearance and appearance of knowledge.
There is knowledge of opinion and opinion of knowledge.
There is ignorance of appearance and appearance of ignorance.
There is ignorance of opinion and opinion concerning ignorance.
But then there is after ignorance and opinion and appearances there is reason or causes or grounds for knowledge and groundlessness or causelessness or ignorance in relation to unreason.
But also there is before ignorance and opinion and appearance there is unreasonableness in relation to knowledge and groundlessness or causelesseness or ignorance in relation to reason
So there is reason and unreason or intuition.
There is reason about unreasonableness and unreason about reasonableness.
There is reason about intuition and intuition about reasonableness.
There is reason about reasons and unreason about nonreasons.
There is intuition about intuitions and unintuitiveness about the nonintuitable.
There is reasonableness about opinions and unreasonableness about opinions.
There are opinions about reasons and opinions about intuitions.
There is reasonableness about appearances and unreasonableness about appearances.
There are appearances of reasonableness and appearances of intuitiveness.
There is reasoning about knowledge and reasoning about ignorance.
There is unreasonableness concerning knowledge and unreasonableness concerning ignorance.
There is intuitions about knowledge and intuitions concerning ignorance.
There is knowledge about reasoning and there is ignorance about unreasoning.
There is reasoning about knowledge and there is intuitions about ignorance.
There is ignorance concerning reason and there is knowledge concerning unreason.
There is reasoning about ignorance and there is intuition about knowledge.
There IS . . . . Is there?
Being of NonBeing and NonBeing of Being.
Being of Being and NonBeing of NonBeing.
Becoming of Being and Being of Becoming.
Being of Appearances and Appearances of Being.
Becoming of Appearances and the Appearances of Becoming.
Appearance of Appearances and Nonappearance of Appearances and Appearance of Nonappearances
Plato said that the man of earth is the one who only believes what he can hold in his hands.
Plato said that there are those who believe in the invisible but are only initiated into the lesser mysteries like the followers of Heraclitus who think the invisible is flux.
Plato said that there are those who believe in the invisible but only initiated into the greater mysteries like the followers of Parmenides who think the invisible is static.
The Sophist said that what we really want is change and changelessness at the same time.
Changing knowledge and changeless knowledge at the same time.
Changing ignorance and changeless ignorance at the same time.
Knowledge and ignorance at the same time.
Changing appearance and unchanging appearance at the same time.
Changing opinion and unchanging opinion at the same time.
Changing appearance and unchanging opinion at the same time.
Changing opinion and unchanging appearance at the same time.
Appearances and opinions at the same time.
Changing reason and changeless unreason at the same time.
Changing unreason and changeless reason at the same time.
Changing reason and unchanging reason at the same time.
Changing reason and unchanging unreason at the same time.
Changing unreason and unchanging reason at the same time.
Reason and unreason at the same time.
Changing reasoning and changeless intuition at the same time.
Changing intuition and changeless reasoning at the same time.
Changing reasoning and unchanging reasoning at the same time.
Changing intuition and unchanging intuition at the same time.
Changing reasoning and unchanging intuition at the same time.
Reasoning and Intuition at the same time.
Wise Knowledge and Knowing Wisdom.
Knowing Knowledge and Wise Wisdom
concerning . . .
Existence and Nonexistence.
Existence of Existence and the Nonexistence of Nonexistence.
Existence of Nonexistence and the Nonexistence of Existence.
Existence of Space and the Nonexistence of Space.
Existence of Time and the Nonexistence of Time.
Existence of Spacetime and the Nonexistence of Spacetime
Existence of Timespace and the Nonexistence of Timespace.
Reasoning about Existence and Intuitions of Existence.
Reasoning about NonExistence and Intuitions of Nonexistence.
Existence of Reasoning and the Existence of Intuitions
NonExistence of Reasoning and the NonExistence of Intuitions.
Reasoning about Spacetime and Intuitions about Spacetime,
Timespace of Existence and Timespace of NonExistence.
NonTimespace of Existence and NonTimespace of NonExistence.
Beyond Existence and NonExistence.
Beyond Spacetime and Timespace.
Beyond Reasoning and Intuition.
Transcendently Transcendent.
Beyond Immanence and Beyond Transcendence
Transcendently Immanent and Immanently Transcendent.
Immanently Immanent.
Beyond Beyond.
Prajna!
GATE GATE PARA GATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA!
“Going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always becoming Buddha.”