1 min readAug 27, 2019
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.