2.14
It can be difficult to explain why one should undertake this experience. Nonetheless, I’ll try.
The type of experience to which I’m gesturing seems expansive, maybe freeing. There’s something that seems right, that accords with a sense we may have, a sense about what according is. Zwicky expresses this sense when she writes that “truth is the asymptotic limit of sensitive attempts to be responsible to our actual experience of the world.”[1]
We often overlook aspects of our experience of the world. I’ve argued for an expansion of beings to which we customarily assign “world,” and for the correlative challenge this poses to our sense of self (§2.13). Truth, in Zwicky’s sense, is both epistemological and ethical. We live in the truth through sensitively striving to accurately respond to our situation, which means to other beings with which we’re related; or, better, we aim at the truth, for this sensitive, responsive engagement is an ongoing practice.
[1] Zwicky, W&M, LH102.