Basic Ideas and Tools
In the inquiry of knowledge, when we are distant from the basic ideas, we have many tools to work with. These tools are actually ideas which eventually can be traced back to the basic ideas. So if we want to investigate the basic ideas, we cannot use these tools, as the basis on which these tools are built on is questioned. As such the tools become fewer and fewer as we approach the basic ideas. When we reach the basic idea, we only have 2 tools to progress, that is basic reason and basic experience. Without basic experience, there is nothing to operate on, and without basic reason, there is no tool we can use to operate on the data.
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