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everything. Backwards. Through our senses we first experience ourselves and then the immediate. Forward. We then articulate these so-called Baconian sensory deceptions into tragic linguistic binary presences (hot-cold, sweet-sour). To feel something is to experience its presence. Replay Presence: soul-pervading euforic energy: Truth is an euforic feeling. A spasm into an elemental sense of Self and Human Understanding: “Know thyself and you will know the universe and the gods:” now rewritten: “Feel thyself and you will feel the universe and the gods.” So when Bacon asks us to deny the euphory of perception (truth) in his most notorious unaphorism: “the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency and deception of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important...” (L, 52-53) he is asking us to lead unaphoric life: itself an aberration of reason and logic for the senses do not distort reason. Reason distorts the senses.
What are we then to make of Bacon’s flagrant inexperience of the unexperienced? How does he know of it if he doesn’t know of it until he knows of it? The unexperienced also exists in relation to the experienced. Both are beyond empiric and methodical demonstration: experience is sensory and
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