Exact and Inexact
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The principle of relativity and possible evolution; two kinds of mentation; inexactitudes, also lawful; the law of seven and the fractioning of phenomena; fragments and making paste; approaching truth in the form of a lie; enabling digestion.
In this week’s extract from In Search of the Miraculous, we read, “For exact understanding exact language is necessary,” and that this exact language, “bases the construction of speech upon a new principle, namely, the principle of relativity...”1
Gurdjieff goes on to say, as reported by Ouspensky,
“The language in which understanding is possible is constructed upon the indication of the relation of the object under examination to the evolution possible for it; upon the indication of its place in the evolutionary ladder.
"For this purpose many of our usual ideas are divided according to the steps of this evolution.”2