But the arguments prove nothing. The arguments discover the implications of the ideas creatively posited. In its creative work, philosophy has no place for argumentation. We only know Reality immediately in intelligent creative activity. It is in the creativity of intelligence that we obtain reality, become real ourselves, and thus come to know Reality.
Philosophy is a creation of the mind, an expanse of intelligibility and hence of reality.
It does not reflect reality but, out of the reality of the philosopher s creative intelligence, engenders a new order of reality. The philosopher, equally with the poet and the artist, creates life-giving illusions. Hence, all philosophical thought is parabolical, expresses itself in myth. If understanding is, as I hold, not a passive reception of a meaning or truth or whatever, coming from outside us, but is a creative projection of a pattern that confers meaning on the given, then myth must be the only means by which the mind can obtain understanding. A system of philosophy can be as rational as Aristotle s or Bradley s, yet the concepts used in any such system correspond to nothing actually existing.