C = the condition of not knowing (gap) the possibility of being wrong
If there are no false facts, if the very possibility of the undoing of the verity of a fact is a condition of its being, then what are facts at all, as there are no absolute truths? facticity’s relativity becomes its very demise.
Cloudiness as a form of ambivalence, a sign of pretentiousness or insecurity. Such a wide spectrum from which misassumptions may arise, as the two often get mistaken for one another, and yet it was not my intention to propose falsehoods but let us in the least offer the conditions for possibility. Yours appears to me a world of absolutes and war. If the other can only exist as with or not-with, all presuppositions being made, the other can only exist as a response to you. Division is practice gravitating around one. No one else should exist in their own right. There are no third options, and increasing clarity is a meddling with belief, “feelings are facts” are truths are a name borrowed, and that’s simply great.
Let us hope that we act in pursuit of certain truths, at the level of valuation rather than facticity. Is action with an assumption of truth the same as action in belief? To believe with such certainty your own “truth”fulness may negate the need for communication at all, all others (not-with) being mere falsehoods (is this no hierarchy?). Or rather, a cruising for a bruising.
What else is there? Where is the third term, and what forms of dialogue could manifest them? What is C if it is a non-affirmation, a radical passivity? Can such passivity exist ex-stasis, as a language of linkages and motion rather than objects? To move one’s self besides oneself, no longer a subject, ecstasy, spaces in-between. This conversation began by a notion of two. You and your audience as binary, but if we would dare leave the spaces of solidity (it was our high school physics teacher Mr. B who taught us the value of absolutes while he tormented us during examination periods with bells attached to his shoes. “Never ASSUME. It makes an ASS out of U and ME.“), we find a neither-and; a condition C, being outside the self, of not knowing yet not quite not-self either. Infinitely tied to self, C is always conjunctive, one whose very possibility takes us outside of the frames of assumption.
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