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.
Masterful diagnosis and cure.. I'm healed Doc.. I'm not easy either.. Done with so few words.. simply brilliant!..
Simplicity then is both a curse and a blessing.. Big difference, then, between simplicity and simplistic..
"A man has gotta know his limitations"- Dirty Harry