Be Right Or Be Smart

We can understand reality objectively or subjectively. The objective form would be the rational one based on reason, object and meaning, while the subjective form would be the intelligent one linked to subject, sense and intelligibility. In the Globalium of Xirinacs meaning is objective and meaning is subjective, they are not synonymous. The meaning lies in dictionaries, encyclopedias and databases. The meaning lights up inside us after we have read and understood it. We understand and find meaning or not, in a joke or a poem, when we guess the riddle of the riddle or the metaphors. Intelligence, from the Latin inter i legere, means to read between the lines, to read what is not said or the opposite of what is said. Meaning is understood using intelligence. 슬롯머신777사이트 There are those who know how to think intelligently within themselves, and there are those who only know how to think reasonably alienated from external meanings.

The Enlightenment and the French Revolution deified reason. Kant places pure reason and practical reason at the pinnacle of philosophical knowledge and associates freedom with rationality. He even postulates that freedom is precisely the pursuit of rationality. Xirinacs turns it upside down. He says that reason is governed by the principle of non-contradiction: A = A, one thing is itself (principle of identity) or A no = no A, one thing is not equal to another (principle of non-contradiction) both are soothing and dampening principles. And he says that intelligence is governed by the principle of contradiction: A no = A, never two things are strictly equal (principle of otherness) or A = no A, each thing carries within its own contradiction (principle of contradiction). These two principles are unsettling and dizzying, but they are stimulating and invigorating.

There is a sad philosophical-psychological controversy. Can you think without words? Which comes first: the code word or the personal idea? In a rational world like ours it is dominated by the belief that first it is the word and then its intimate meaning. Xirinacs turns it upside down for us again, as he says that there are many words he does not understand and many unexpressed and even inexpressible inner clarities. According to rationalists, everyone creates, more or less unconsciously, their own language or idiolect. But human intelligence is as fast as a spark and when it has created ten signs or codes of its own it has already created at once a hundred intellectual sparks still nameless. We need to know how to recognize the meaning. A certain common sense, that intelligent opposition that does not rule in the objective world but warns, because it sees where nothing is seen, the transparent night of Carles Cardó and the popular left hand.