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Originally Posted by Plato  it's all just language games. |
I love it.
Basically it all comes down to that right there - language games.
The fatal flaw of most philosophy majors is that they aren't intellectually honest.
If they started putting a serious effort into being intellectually honest, I think they would eventually realize that problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind. (Which you seem to be realizing)
There is this antiquated notion of "conscience" which points to the idea that approaches truth. How did Nietzsche deal with his realization that philosophy was so fatally flawed? He appealed to a higher authority within him that trumps the mind. This higher authority - this thing we all know is there but can't express on the mental level.
I suppose the best word is "awareness" or "consciousness" or "conscience".
Most philosophers would rather be "right" than happy. They are doomed to suffer until they choose happiness over rightness. Once they choose happiness they transcend the word games.
Truth can be pointed to, but it can't be named.
Godel already proved this to us when he proved that all logical systems are necessarily incomplete as long as they remain logical. This does not mean there is no truth - it means that logic cannot express truth. "The Matrix cannot tell you who you are" as one philosophy movie says
This is why a Sutra or Parable doesn't bother arguing with logic and doesn't bother explaining itself. Any elaboration, any argument -- any logic -- is futile.