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What may be meant by AndreGide's comment that what eludes logic is the most precious element in us and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance?
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Tok Essay No2 What may be meant by Andre Gide's comment that what eludes logic is the most precious element in us and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance? Gaining knowledge is a process which at least passively goes on in any human a life time long. Gaining knowledge goes through certain ways of knowledge. Those ways are language, perception, emotion and reason. But they are severely different from each other. The way of knowing through language, for example is a way that does not go without authority. In this way knowledge is told. It is the way that is mostly dependent on the knower than any other way of knowing. The way of knowing through perception is a way that is fairly subjective. The knower mostly gains it from past experience. For example if one's foot hurts because one has burned...
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