Tuesday 4 January 2011

Absolutely incongruent

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Immanuel Kant once asked his readers to imagine there was nothing but empty space and a pair of gloves, whereupon one was supposed to determine which was left and which right in relation to that void by some method unknown. But where did he imagine you were expected to imagine this scenario from?

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