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Yet you need be no great student of our halting course through the cosmos to notice that, however hard we have lunged at this elusive definitude, we have had a hard time ''finding'' it. | Yet you need be no great student of our halting course through the cosmos to notice that, however hard we have lunged at this elusive definitude, we have had a hard time ''finding'' it. | ||
Unexpected shit still, resolutely, ''happens''. Were it not so deeply buried in the piles of our founding mythology, we might even wonder whether our quest for [[certainty]] wasn’t, in itself, the heart of the problem. | Unexpected shit still, resolutely, ''happens''. Were it not so deeply buried in the piles [''That’s your last warning — Ed''] of our founding mythology, we might even wonder whether our quest for [[certainty]] wasn’t, in itself, the heart of the problem. | ||
So here, | So here, JC presents a spirited, against-the-run-of-play, defence of ''doubt''. | ||
There are logical, psychological, commercial and philosophical grounds to protect it | There are logical, psychological, commercial and philosophical grounds to protect it. Let us start at the top and work our way down to the [[elephants and turtles]]. | ||
====The commercial imperative of doubt==== | ====The commercial imperative of doubt==== |