John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readAug 27, 2019

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Admittedly philosophy, especially western philosophy, doesn’t do a good job of establishing truths, or even the meaning of truth. As you observe, thought is a cycling between reductionism and contextualization, while “truth” is an idealization, thus reductionist.

Reductionism leads us to the absolute, where everything cancels out. While contextualization leads us to the infinite, where everything fades out. So we fluctuate somewhere in the middle.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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