Leaves room to correct some mistakes. I can't imagine what it would be like if my first impression governed every experience completely.Your real power is in your ability to adapt to the change. — hope
Technically correct, but skating on out of scope. If you ceased to travel with the planet through space it would probably crush you. Speculating to be fair.Reality is eternally changing and if you were not also you would be soon dead. — hope
He looks exclusively to logic and the necessary conditions it imposes on knowledge. This will not allow the world to "speak" and mostly, he is right about this. Do you know the color yellow? If you do, then you can say so, like knowing what a bank teller is. But no saying so, no knowing. Wittgenstein and Derrida are close here, in the way logic and language have no application in basic questions about actuality. But in the end, and Wittgenstien knew this well, it is Hamlet who wins the day, for "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." — Constance
.What I know I can tell. — Socrates
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