Quite deep Cornelis.. almost hynotizing.. Quite beyond me to grasp it all.. But what you you think about this snippet.?.. Can you simplify it for me.?.. Like brandy I can only take a little.. Little is good, more is too much..
The Cross is Plato's twice divided line, among other things in geometry. We are in big trouble when we begin to critique our metaphors.
And if I try, I would begin with the phrase "A is A," because that is somewhat familiar and what many like to return to, here.
The A-is-A phrase is an epistemological shorthand describing our human method of individuating. It describes human analysis. It is a circumscription so that we don't talk about everything at once. (Funny thing, it's used as a chant and an excuse to talk about everything at once.)
Why is this phrase so important? Because in our attempt to understand human life, we are in the habit of saying we've said it all when we merely have defined one aspect of human life. We mistake A for non-A, because we took A to be bigger than it was. Consider all the -isms. Each one of them are a diseased infatuation with a particular aspect of reality, turning a particular into a totality. The lawyer thinks all the world's a court. The psychologist thinks all the world's a couch.
The point is, human life always involves something else to which it belongs to. It's A is somehow connected to non-A. We are not symmetrical totalities by ourselves. And once we realize this, we reach a crossroads: we are what we are not and that is something darkling . . . and complex. Dogma and simplicity then become the temptation and substitutes (the second realities) to protect from complexity.
That's a start, hosepipe, and I hope it helps. It can be said in other ways and will be.