Can we really know anything?
Humans are inherently paradoxical and contradictory creatures, and can never completely be in the right or wrong, be completely assured in the total truth of a bit of information or an opinion. Accepting the impossibility of perfect reason is actually quite liberating...
I personally try to recognize that I cannot always be right; that no one can ever really be sure about anything. I never deal in absolutes, and yet I just made two absolute statements one after the other! See my point, then? It's a paradox, and it makes me human. It is a slap in the face to banal rationalism.
I'm no Romantic or Transcendentalist, but here I seem to lean towards these philosophies. We are too limited by our mere senses and flawed rhetoric. I cannot, in my thinking, be absolute, so then that begs the question, why try? Experiment with the intellect. Embrace your fallacies and learn from them.
I've drawn a lot of conclusions about this from what I see in these blogs. What point is there in making a seemingly irrefutable argument when there can be formed an equally irrefutable rebuttal? I believe in reconciliation, that all points of view can be intertwined somehow, but, contradictorily, I see that's not always the case.
I believe in the "grey theory." Nothing exists in absolutes, nothing is purely black and white, everything exists in shades of grey. Or even in shades of yellow, maybe, or blue or green or purple or no colors at all. Is that what having an open mind is?
Knowledge is humanity's greatest tool, but what use is it if we can't satisfactorily use it to explain all things in the world around us? We seek more knowledge continuously, an enlightening journey without enlightened end.
But what do I know?
