I have enjoyed the notion since college that while categories of various kinds can never be demonstrated in "absolute" terms, vecause of the infinite gradations of all qualities, never the less the one absolute that could be attained is the thing in itself at the instant at which you are looking at it -- the thing-now. At that moment of course, it is being taken entirely as it is in the instant without comparison, making it an absolute unto itself.

Seemed important at the time, but I think I understand where the term "sophomoric" comes from....

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