The Threshold of Ignorance

twice; first from its presence on its own and apart from the observer and second from its conceptualisation in its sensible form to a symbolic representation on a different level. The essence of this logic assumes that the object itself has an existence of its own. This existence has its dimensions and characteristics to be what it is on its own. Our perception of it depends totally on our capacities of perception itself subject to our faculties of understanding and perceiving. We perceive the object through our filter of perception and cannot assess whether or not the object itself can exist on its own outside our perception. There are no criteria for measuring the exactitude of our perception. In this way whatever is perceived may or may not represent the reality of an object. How do we know an apple is an apple? What makes an apple an apple? What makes us sure that our perception is real? Means of identification of an object do not exist. Thus; we remain suspended on the threshold of ignorance. First, we do not know what an object is, and second we have no access to identify its validity.

 The object itself, during this operation, loses its reality of its own being and becomes a subject to the interpretation of our mind. Likewise; both the ‘sensible’ and the ‘intelligible’ remain to be identified (an impossibility, view the unknown nature of substance or matter; the illusionary and uncertainty of the character of symbolic representation as means of communication). Humans communicate with sounds or symbolic utterances, voiced or unvoiced (representation), but these means are themselves enigmatic in presence, in origin and in finality of its representation-communication utility. What is the purpose of communicating with others? What

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