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Alberto Knox
Nov27-04, 06:42 AM
Proposition 1: All knowledge originates form reasoning.

Proposition 2: All knowledge is discursive knowledge.

Proposition 3: Deductive reasoning is an extenstion of inductive reasoning.

Proposition 4: Inductive reasoning comes from experience.

Proposition 5: Experience is aquired through the senses.

Proposition 6: The senses are directly linked to our environment for our senses could not actively sense without a passive and external object being sensed.

Proposition 7: Reasonning leads to the acquisition of discursive knowledge which divides objects so that they may be intelligible.

Proposition 8: By dividing objects to comprehend them, we must forcibly define an object as the combination of numerous other objects also defined by this same process. A paradox arises.

Proposition 9: Nothing can be truly understood through discursive knowledge.
Proposition 10: Since discursive knowledge comes from experience, our environment cannot be understood through division.

Proposition 11: Our environment cannot be divided.

Proposition 12: Our environment must exist.

Proposition 13: Our environment is one.