The Ghent Review Volume1, Number 1, summer 2016 | Page 45

-Logic won’t solve the matter for him, or for us.
-You have, I think, a religious state of mind.
-Don’t deny it – we all make illogical leaps.
-True, but from what into what?
-It’s the not knowing where you will land which gives every leap its validity.
The history of science proves that.
-But first you must have the meta before you have the physics
-More the stuff of poetry I would think.
-O damn the evasions of poetry. We need facts, solid facts.
Fact: I am in their company but am not of their kind.
Fact: the space between us is irrefutable.
Fact: I have the physics but seek the meta.
-Facts are conditioned by historical circumstances. Once the world was flat
now it is round.
-That was never a fact, it was only a superstition.
-It was more than that – it was a logical deduction from the available
evidence.
-So what are you saying?
-I’m saying we don’t know all that we think we know.
-Socrates!
-His questions were always the right ones – there is value in not knowing,
which he prized.
-Let’s leave the Greeks out of this – don’t you agree?
-If only I could.
-That’s defeatism, I expected more from you.
-But he’s right. The contours of every discussions has long been marked out
by the Greeks. We are their children.