cause of dissatisfaction with science, of complaints about the bankruptcy of science and
of its actual bankruptcy in many respects.
Dissatisfaction with science is well grounded and complaints of its insolvency are
perfectly justified, because science has actually come to an impasse from which there is
no way out, and it is only a matter of time before it is openly admitted that its main
tendencies have led it completely astray.
We may say - not as a supposition but as a definite affirmation -that the world of
physical phenomena represents as it were a section
of another world, which also exists
here,
and the events of which take place
here,
but invisibly to us. Nothing is more
miraculous and supernatural than life. Take a street of a large town, in all its details,
and you will get an enormous diversity of facts. But how
much is hidden behind these
facts and cannot be seen at all! How many desires, passions, greedy and covetous
thoughts, how much suffering both petty and great, how much deceit, falsity, lies, how
many invisible threads - sympathies, antipathies, interests - linking this street with the
whole world, with all the past and all the future. If we picture all this to ourselves we
shall see clearly that a street cannot be studied merely by
what is visible.
We must
probe deeper. The complex
and vast
phenomenon
of the street will not reveal its infinite
noumenon, connected both with eternity and with time, with the past, with the future
and with the whole world.
Consequently we have every right to regard the visible phenomenal world as a
section of some other world, infinitely more complex, which at a given moment is
manifesting itself for us in the first one.
This world of noumena is infinite and incomprehensible for us, just as the three
dimensional world in all the variety of its functions is incomprehensible for the two
dimensional being. The nearest approximation to 'truth' possible for
man is contained in
the formulation:
each thing has an infinite variety of meanings, and to know all these
meanings is impossible.
In other words, 'truth' as we understand it, i.e. the
finite
definition,
is possible only in a finite series of phenomena. In an
infinite
series it is
bound, somewhere, to become its own opposite.
This last thought was expressed by Hegel: 'Every idea, extended to infinity, becomes
its own opposite.'
It is precisely this
change of meaning
which is the reason
why the noumenal world is
incomprehensible for man. The essence of a thing, i.e. the thing in itself, is contained in
the infinite number of
functions and meanings of the thing which cannot be grasped by our mind.
And it is also contained in the change of meaning of one and the same thing.
In one meaning the thing is an enormous whole including a great number of
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