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NEFX - Scriums.txt ? On the other hand, if we can determine in some form the validity of a perceived truth or a truth procedure according to the accordance in content between the guiding concept and the endpoint of seeming truth, we must also question the process. ? Thus, to know is to comprehend all of these components and moments, and to engage with them for what they are rather than for what they are not or even so much as what they merely MIGHT not be. ? Indeed, we can classify processions towards a truth at varying lengths or degrees of separation from arrival at that truth, or we may classify the procession according to the point at which the arrival at the object of truth is intended and deliberately pursued. ? This could be to say that knowledge is on some level that which has been encountered as truth and that can thereafter be used to furnish other determinations of truth, and what in one instance is truth determined by knowledge is in another instance knowledge that helps to determine truth, which truth in the latter case may be what was knowledge in the former. ? Two things held as valid by consciousness can be each to each other. ? Moreover, consciousness is of not just perceived truth, but the means of determining it. ? Because even though the connection is the same universally, mortal subjectivity can hold some sway, and the various infinitesimal and contiguous connections are frequently found in different segments by probing beings. ? For that matter, the process in either direction constitutes its own truth process, which is to say in a way that to reach a guiding concept of a truth from that truth is in a sense to follow a guiding concept to another truth of the guiding concept itself. ? Yet even though truth is self-contained, it entails that which was for it, which is to say, that which was for something beyond itself, and thus in a sense truth is for the guiding concept and the perceiver. ? For if the endpoint is already planned and borne in mind, then the accordance of the guiding concept with it may in some form be redundant, such as in the sense that the end was already known, or that the endpoint of truth proved for truth itself to help further reveal and refine the guiding concept. ? On the other side of the matter of a thought process towards an endpoint of at least potential truth, we may find at least the idea that the truth-as-object contains within it the initial guiding concept that lead one to realizing that truth; although this may not be so in a direct fashion, for the initial guiding concept may not be itself a validity but an invalidity whose resolution is constituted in the truth as a synthesis of right and wrong, and it is not necessarily clear how far back in the stages of understanding the initial guiding concept is. ? However, if we have a set and pre-planned methodology for engaging with something in order to reach an object of truth -- that is, a guiding concept and criterion for assessing validity -- then we may as much discover something about the possibilities and limits of the methodology, notwithstanding the myopia and reflexive incuriousness that can arise from mere habitual application of methodology to the engagement without engaging more specifically with the thing as it is. ? After all, consciousness is not merely of itself or of the endpoint, but also of methodology. ? At the same time, the aforementioned resolution lies not merely in the inhering of the contradicted falsehoods in the ultimate truth that is the object, but also in the recognizing of a concept as being true for that outside the perceiving self. ? Furthermore, it is not necessarily clear that a truth is understood if it does not entail within it the understanding of its guiding concept or concepts, its entailed process and stages in realization; and for reasons as the aforementioned, one may learn something different in deducing a guiding concept from an established truth than from reaching a truth by a guiding concept.