Tongzai SpaceWenzi · Being & Becoming

Questions · Ultimate Questions

Must truth be “correctly known” for it to hold?

Direct answer

Chapter 8 of Being states that being does not wait for recognition; recognizing is itself within being. Insight can change life without bringing the world into existence. Chapter 16 extends this to rain, mountains and nonhuman existence without observers.

Further explanation

Distinguish the effects of recognition on a life from conditions of existence. Insight can transform judgment, but Being says it does not authorize being. Chapter 16 describes rain and mountains without human witnesses. The claim is structural, not an empirical proof of any metaphysical totality.

Core concepts

Being Is Being Becoming Is Becoming Deleting the Cognitive Mediator

Primary sources

《在》第 8、16 章

Conclusions that must not be drawn

Understanding and recognition can change experience, but they are not external conditions for existence or happening to hold.

Related questions

Even if a philosophy says “the highest concept must also be let go,” might it still retain a person who must “see the truth”?If a philosophy claims to have reached the “ultimate,” how can we judge whether it has truly left no final fixed point?If a philosophy ultimately still needs a “person who correctly knows the truth,” has it truly eliminated the subject?

Related phrasings

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