![[After Socrates Episode 4 - Reverse Engineering the Dialectic Dr. John Vervaeke#^5kebgh]] - No-thingness means we can only experience it's true essence directly - Reminds me a lot of the idea of [[Affordances]] - Cannot conceptually deepen your understanding, must come into contact What's the purpose of things that we cannot comprehend entirely? They can act as [[Everything has a throughline|throughlines]]: - ![[After Socrates Episode 14 The Procession and the Return#^n4snjg]] We realistically cannot engage and see it in it's entirety. We need to learn to see it as what it is, through the perspective we can afford: ![[After Socrates Episode 14 The Procession and the Return#^xamhre]] This can be understood through the idea of seeing a circle with infinite size. ![[After Socrates Episode 14 The Procession and the Return#^csypo8]] We can only do so when we open up our perception to be greater than our conceptual understanding of what a circle is, that will help us connect the two things. This is what can be derived while in the [[Being mode]] or in [[Dialogos]]? A state that doesn't make sense, but is the only way we can make sense of the world? ![[After Socrates Episode 14 The Procession and the Return#^y8d1ar]]