The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Fuller notes that understanding the explainable often depends on accepting the mysterious or beyond experience.
- In plain terms
- Logic needs mystery to work.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept limits of knowledge when seeking understanding.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you not know?
- Why does it matter?
Another view
Some fields demand complete explainability.
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