Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

of ourselves as monads ‘mirroring’ the Universe,
with God as the Supreme Monad [Monadology
56]; (4) the ego/phenomena analysis of Immanuel
Kant, where the ‘unity of consciousness preceding
all empirical data,... the transcendental unity of
apperception’ is in essential polarity with ‘the
[sensory] manifold of all our intuitions’ [Critique of
Pure Reason A1067]— see especially his eloquent
‘transcendental hypothesis’ [A779/B807]; (5)
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus 5.64, Notebooks 1914-1916 [7.VIII.
16 2.IX.16], and Philosophical Investigations
[#373, ‘Theology as grammar’]; (6) Martin Buber's
I and Thou— see also William James's prior The
Will to Believe: ‘The universe is no longer a mere
It to us, but a Thou, if we are religious’; (7) Hans
Reichenbach's The Philosophy of Space & Time
[Dover Books, New York, n/d]; (8) Maurice
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception;
and (9) much traditional Oriental epistemology:
Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist [recall Th 30!]— thus
e.g. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Essays in Zen
Buddhism [2nd Series]: ‘The entire structure
of [Mahayana] Buddhist philosophy is based on an
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