And here is where philosophy falls: the suppression of truth-intuitions in the interest of keeping one’s coherence. For that matter, this is the downfall of any systematic pursuit of knowledge lodged within a necessarily critical institution: I have just taken a break from a paper I’m writing, stopping in the middle of a thrust toward completion, in the middle of a hasty deletion of a thought because it didn’t fit, and I was afraid of a bad grade on grounds of self-contradiction.
At this point, then, I succumb to an irrationalist epistemology, because it is clear that we’re just saving face.
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