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Tallis in Wonderland

On Logos

Raymond Tallis looks into the mystery of the sense-making animal.

The greatest mysteries are often those we are most likely to overlook. Supreme among these is the fact that the world is intelligible to us, at least to some degree. Of course, if we could not make moment-to-moment sense of what was going on around us, there could be no us. Inhabiting an entirely unintelligible world in which nothing could be understood, anticipated, or acted upon with reliable consequences, would be incompatible with life.

But there is no ‘of course’ even about this.

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