@GaudreauJordan Can you name a specific criterion or method by which Relationality or Likeness help determine whether someone’s private confirmation reflects Knowledge rather than Ignorance when two people disagree?
@GaudreauJordan How exactly do Relationality/Likeness allow us to determine whether someone’s private confirmation reflects Knowledge rather than Ignorance when two people disagree?
@GaudreauJordan That doesn’t address the issue. How do we determine whether someone’s private confirmation reflects Knowledge rather than Ignorance when two people reach conflicting conclusions?
@GaudreauJordan If dialogue and shared patterns across time can reveal Truth, but final confirmation must still be private and direct, how do we evaluate when two people reach conflicting conclusions through their own inner confirmation?
@GaudreauJordan If the only confirmation is private inner experience, what prevents this from reducing to subjectivism — where anyone can sincerely believe they have genuine insight with no reliable way to evaluate it?
@GaudreauJordan What would count as evidence that someone’s claimed direct insight or Wisdom is still shaped by prior concepts rather than being genuinely purified?
@GaudreauJordan If training through contemplation and meditation is what allows us to reach genuine direct knowing, how do we distinguish between someone who has successfully purified their insight and someone whose experience is still shaped by prior concepts or interpretations?
@GaudreauJordan How do you distinguish between a genuine non-propositional insight and an experience that has already been shaped by prior concepts, beliefs, or interpretations?
@GaudreauJordan When you recognize or describe this insight as “non-propositional,” aren’t you already using logical distinctions and concepts to identify it as non-propositional? How is that recognition itself free of those preconditions?
@GaudreauJordan Your claim isn’t non-propositional. Recognizing this insight depends on logical and conceptual preconditions, including a reflexive self and the claim that it lies at Reality’s core. Direct experience only shows limited awareness. These preconditions lack a coherent foundation.
@GaudreauJordan 1. Reality exists and has a structured “core”
2. There is a “source”
3. Knowledge/Understanding is possible
4. A self or reflexive subject exists
5. This truth exists