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The Epilogue 295avoided both <strong>the</strong> Scylla <strong>of</strong> incomprehensibility <strong>an</strong>d <strong>the</strong> Charybd<strong>is</strong> <strong>of</strong> dogmat<strong>is</strong>m.The etymology <strong>of</strong> “method” <strong>is</strong> illuminating: <strong>the</strong> Greek methodos (pursuit)c<strong>on</strong>s<strong>is</strong>ts <strong>of</strong> meta (with, after) <strong>an</strong>d hodos (way, journey). In <strong>the</strong> end,knowledge c<strong>an</strong> not be found in <strong>the</strong> explicati<strong>on</strong>s: it <strong>is</strong> embodied in <strong>the</strong> roaditself. While <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> way, we might also remember that – m<strong>on</strong>strous or not –<strong>the</strong> unknown always surrounds <strong>the</strong> structures <strong>of</strong> our underst<strong>an</strong>ding, thingsunsaid echo in those we are able to utter.“St. Anth<strong>on</strong>y Assaulted by <strong>the</strong> Devils”(after Schoengauer’s fifteenth-century copper engraving; Carus 1900/1996, 479).

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