Abstract
Thinking of one's own thinking is not a favorable job even for philosophers. It seems natural for humans, unnatural for animals, and that is all. Hypotheses are used to explain the patterns of thinking, instead of the flow of thinking in different patterns. The usual approach is to attribute sense to phenomena, rather than to study them “as they are.” As for sense, it is indisputably present. This has been the way undertaken by philosophers over centuries. In his thousand-page “first postmodern survey of philosophy from ancient times to the turn of the twenty-first century,” John Deely traces the main paths of human thought but also examines a “road not taken” by thinkers. By following a mysterious “sign-notion,” abandoned in early modern times in favor of the “way of ideas,” he achieves a profound insight into the skeleton of the entirety of human thought.
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