THIS IS A “BREAKTHROUGH” for me, in my understanding and it concerns the relationship between FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM.

 

 

Consider the following two ‘views of reality’;

 

The ‘thin skull’ rule

 

The thin skull rule makes the defendant liable for the plaintiff’s injuries even if the injuries are unexpectedly severe owing to a pre-exisiting yet stable condition.  The defendant must take the victim as they find them with whatever peculiar weaknesses and predispositions they might have, and is liable even though the plaintiff’s losses are more dramatic than they would be for the average person.

 

The ‘tide in the affairs of men” understanding;  (from Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’;

 

“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

 

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In the LATTER aphorism, there is an acknowledgment of our being included in a dynamic greater than ourselves,  (this is the QUANTUM LOGIC understanding wherein material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including electromagnetic field) wherein WE ARE “NOT” AUTHORS OF OUR OWN ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS (as the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR asserts) but, gives us to understand that we are immersed in world of potentials that INVITES OUR PARTICIPATION.

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