Figuring that “xing” stands for “unexamined” - wouldn’t you say that one has to start somewhere?
And if one can say that “the unexamined y is not work xing” doesn’t that kind of imply that there is some kind of knowledge there to begin with, insofar as knowing that it has been unexamined?
Yeah there’s knowledge to begin with. Some of that a priori, innate kind of stuff. Like the first time you open your eyes, you may not know the jargon, but you immediately know how to distinguish two objects in front of you as “not the same as one another”. So to speak.
The y’s and the x’s are variables. You can put a lot of different things in there. Some will work, some not.
Like the unexamined vagina isn’t worth eating.
Or the unexamined sack of weed isn’t worth smoking.
Or the unexamined beer isn’t worth drinking, (because you don’t know if there’s a roofie in there).
Maybe I am completely missing the point here. I am not sure.
But even having just blown out the candle, life is STILL flow, is it not?
Things are not written in stone. Everytime something is examined or re-examined, doesn’t it reveal more truth or reality? Isn’t it kind of like the ocean - we cannot begin to know what lurks or lies beneath. There is just no end to it.
But like I said, maybe I’ve misunderstood yours and Smears thought.