The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.  Blaise Pascal, Pensees. 1670.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better. Pascal, Ibid.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.  Pascal, Ibid.

. . . To be a Jack of all Trades

and a Master of None . . .

Turns out that, numerically, perspective gives the facts for any-one.  If it's shared by one it causes the ability to see, grasp, understand, know jointly, amongst a group that is now one shared perspective. 

The pretense causing perspective in every existence is:  I am myself; alone, acting as all of one, and this is what I see.  Notice that the philosophy is only possible with its stated  impossibility.  The philosophy is a pretense.  AND it functions for absolutely every-one!

This pretense creates not-ness (not to mention naught-ness and naughtiness) as in:  myself, not other.  (The hypothesis creates entire sub-algebras, non-Euclidean spaces, the "alpha", "bet", or "gimmel" of "post-Boolean logic of Disjunctive Normal Form" . . . all, plainly, well founded mathematical faiths in the three-dimensional logic of numbers as generated by the pretense.)

"NOT" is THE fundamental pretense, which in perspective is truly functional.  It's the jack[-squat] of all trades.  Naught is the basis of reality and truth and meaning and justice and functions as an illusion of personal otherness that in truth always wins back sole-ness to central inclusive one-ness that is existence's nature and definition [once you exist--and that means you].

Look at the layout of this reality in numbers and then decide for yourself the importance of mastering "none".  NOT is not, or, not-not is.  Inter-relation when hypothesizing not-ness is complete.  The first are last and the last first.  Both is often true.  Paradox is beautifully surprising and fruition, concretely inspiring. 

I have a descriptive, invitation to exist, seeing together, which between any "ones" is a measure of any thing:  "the measure of a human being is the height of one's aspiration, the width of one's experience and the depth of one's wisdom."  In other words, hope and imagination are fundamentally power levels of potentialities, any experience of orderliness is formatively meaningful, and accumulation of filters with insightful use of them as well-tested truths is:  wisdom.

Best to you.  And thank you George Santayana among so many others.

Cecilia

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