X: Representation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Y: True, but but anything before that probably couldn’t be called the human race.
X: Representation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Y: True, but but anything before that probably couldn’t be called the human race.
The “thing in itself” (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. This creator only designates the relations of things to men, and for expressing these relations he lays…… Continue reading The surrogation matrix