Why the REALITY of the EAST is MORE REAL than the REALITY of the WEST

Or, to be more blunt, ‘How the REALITY of the WEST is a Crazy-Maker

The following ‘observations’, in my view, support this proposition that the ‘REALITY OF THE EAST ‘makes sense’ while the ‘REALITY OF THE WEST’ ‘makes no sense’ and is a ‘crazy-maker’.

By the ‘REALITY OF THE EAST’, I mean the view of reality in terms of the BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium where the difference between ‘boil’ and ‘flow’ (inhabitant and habitat) is APPEARANCE.

By the ‘REALITY OF THE WEST’, I mean the view of reality in terms of the EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium where the distinction between ‘boil’ and ‘flow’ (inhabitant and habitat) is ontological.

(-1-) The BOTH/AND logic of the included medium of the ‘EAST’ would have us understand the distinction between FIGURE AND GROUND as ‘appearance’ as with relational forms within a common flow-field or transforming relational continuum where everything is in flux.

(-2-) The EITHER/OR logic of the excluded medium of the ‘WEST’ would have us understand the distinction between FIGURE and GROUND in terms of two mutually exclusive ‘things-in-themselves’ (each one an independent ontological ‘thing-in-itself’).

 

While the understanding of REALITY as in (-1-) is fluid and without dependency on the abstraction of ‘being’, the understanding of REALITY as in (-2-) depends on the abstraction of ‘being’ (the notional existence of ‘things-in-themselves’).

In my view, the one ‘sensible’ understanding of REALITY is the understanding in terms of the BOTH/AND logic of the included medium of the ‘EAST’.

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