Composition of the World

Every description that can be made about the world relies on one important aspect of the world of our observation: patterns that hold in a fraction usually extend to the whole. For example, if I am to say that each person has two eyes, it is because I have seen several people each with two eyes, and none without. I have not seen every person, or even close to it. When I make the statement, it is thus the statement of a generalized rule about the world.

When the senses are given information from the world, it occurs as arbitrary, isolated details that compose observation. For information to be obtained about the world, other than the sensory details themselves, it is necessary to find a consistant pattern in the sensory input, and then form some idea of how it would generalize to the abstract concept of the world. Thus every truth that may be stated is a well generalized pattern, and these patterns not only form the basis of knowledge, they are all knowledge.

Even the most elementary ideas that may be understood and communicated will be in the form of these patterns. It is true that there must be initial truth that relates the senses to the entity of their interpretation, but the nature of that intitial truth could only be realized through a pattern of the world. The pure transcendental world, despite its necessary existence, is beyond our reach.