As Nietzsche points out, REASON derives from a DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, for example “the TOWN is GROWING’.

We might also speak of a TOWNING in the transforming LANDSCAPE

What we have here are TWO representation options

OPTION 1: FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE.  In this option, the TOWNING is like the spotting on a transforming apple.  As the spot grows larger, the unspotted area shrinks in reciprocal proportion.  This is the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE mode of understanding this development.

OPTION 2: FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO.  In this option, the TOWN is understood as a LOCAL thing-in-itself that grows larger RELATIVE TO ITSELF.   This is the so-called RATIO-NAL aka REASON based understanding and it is deeply entrenched in WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT thinking.  REASON is referred to by Nietzsche as ‘the DOUBLE ERROR’ of NAMING and GRAMMAR (first we name the spot on the transforming apple ‘the TOWN’ and then we conflate this with GRAMMAR and say ‘the TOWN is GROWING LARGER’.  In other words we use RATIO to reference the GROWTH of the TOWN to ITSELF instead of acknowledging the pairing of the GROWING of the TOWN and the CONJUGATE SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS.

WHY DO WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS use RATIONAL THINKING (OPTION 2) so extensively?

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