It is easier to demolish arguments than it is to build a case for your own. If you can do this and hold it up against multiple attempts to demolish, that’s a substantial chunk of your battle won, right there. So plot for it and build strong foundations. This is more fruitful than trying to poke holes in the foundations of your neighbour’s houses.

As for my efforts at foundation building, I’m juggling an Ontology textbook with another on the Philosophy of Mind. Both by the same person, actually – Dale Jacquette. I like his commonsense approach. He makes sense of Heidegger. But I’m still feeling a little like the village yokel when it comes to Being and Time. As for Ontology in particular – it is something I’ve been obsessed over for years. The idea of being, the idea of a structure w/in our worldview and apprehending of that world. But I have not yet the words to articulate that apprehending. Which is in part what let me to arguing with Wittgenstein. I recently read his Tractatus and I’ve been chewing on that, and contemplating the limits of my world. I refuse to accept those limits, and wherever I find intellectual and philosophical walls holding up my understanding, I am determined to smash them. It’s a painful process. And a very lonely one. But I’m getting there, one bloody page at a time.

Listening to: The Scarecrow – June Tabor