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Hegel's Consciousness

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Is There a Truth That Can Never Be Written Down?

I think this distinction between mediation and immediacy is really important for this section, that you start out looking at things that are out in the world. And he, he goes through three, he says here now and this, like the most immediate apprehensions of our sensibility. And then he says, well, okay, I get them, but in order to sustain them, to make them into some kind of truth, what do I have to do? Right? He says a truth loses nothing by being written down. But I think that, that notion that truth can always be written, has to be written down and can't lose anything makes no sense if you don't buy it.

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