Sunday, October 05, 2008

COMPLICATION

Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities:
To see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the commonsense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer. But the commonsense answer in itself is no solution; everyone knows it. One must not in philosophy attempt to short-circuit problems. - Ludwig Wittgenstein


I challenge you all to face one problem, trivial or monumental, and solve it without short cuts.
I will be facing the problem of COMPLICATION. I have sunken into a well of over-complication that I intend to correct!