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This may not make much sense without quite some knowledge
of the core idea on my website exactphilosophy, but let
me still get right to it:

The German word rCLErkenntnisrCY equated with eri might be key
to recovery of that core idea.

Short quote from the "dreams" section on the website; I
wrote the second paragraph a few days ago:

: What moves inside (emi), even conscious thinking, is mostly
: an automatic process and thus passive from the point of view
: of an observing self, with just tiny fully conscious glimpses
: where things are static (eri), like the flowers for a butterfly or
: the islands Odysseus visited in the Odyssey.
:
: The German word _Erkenntnis_ seems fitting for such glimpses
: of eri. It is generally translated to English as rCLknowledgerCY in
: the context of philosophy, but spans also insight, recognition,
: realization, and maybe more, maybe most directly becoming
: consciously aware of something inside and/or outside.

Maybe still some context: This is about a different approach to
4+1 elements (fire/air/water/earth+ether), based on immediate
experience of life and the world, as composed tentatively of
in/out ("space") and rest/move ("time").

The interpretation the four elements has evolved quite a bit in
the past, including in the 20th century, and that it sort of
gravitated in psychologically astrology to roughly fire-vision, air-thinking/communication, water-feelings, earth-realism was
likely mainly due to C G Jung, but his definitions (plus the
addition of intro-/extraverted) in "Psycghologica Types" were
still a bit different.

With the above clue ("Erkenntnis") in combination with already
done reasonings over the past about 20+ years, I think I might
be close to solving that "riddle", with as the result a quite
universal that would be valid for any lifeform in the universe,
but we will see... You read it here, first...

I made that connection (the indented second sentence of this
post) 2 September 2026 shortly before 11 PM (CEST) at home
near Zurich, Switzerland...

Alain Stalder

https://www.exactphilosophy.net/
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