The result of the motion of learning is the stasis of knowing. By actively arranging and rearranging words and speeches, one gradually perceives more clearly the principles of right arrangement. Insight requires grasp of order and arrangement, or seeing forms in their proper relation to one another. Human speeches and lives participate in and approximate this arrangement. Thus, the argument becomes caught between Parmenideans and Heracliteans.
Wisdom is neither sensation of particulars nor mere thought of universals.
One should keep in mind that even these discussions do not rise above the line between opinion and knowledge, although they are attempts to move in that direction. Doxa , with or without logos , is not dialectic. Go to Part Two of this essay. This philosophical text, though still in process, is the intellectual property of Gordon L. Ziniewicz. It may be downloaded and freely distributed in electronic form only, provided no alterations are made to the original text.