The Metaphysical Foundation of Buddhism and Modern Science

'intelligence'. He assumes alternatives in contrast to the immediate fact.
He conceives such ideals as effective in proportion as they are
entertained. He praises and he blames by reason of this belief.
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In the world, there are elements of order and disorder, which thereby
presuppose an essential interconnectedness of things. For disorder
shares with order the common characteristic that they imply many things
interconnected.
Each experience enjoys a perspective apprehension of the world, and
equally is an element in the world by reason of this very prehension,
which anchors him to a world transcending his own experience. For, it
belongs to the nature of this perspective derivation, that the world thus
disclosed proclaims its own transcendence of that disclosure. To every
shield, there is another side, hidden.
Thus an appeal to literature, to common language, to common practice, at
once carries us away from the narrow basis for epistemology provided by
the sense-data disclosed in direct introspection. The world within
experience is identical with the world beyond experience, the occasion of
experience is within the world and the world is within the occasion. The
categories have to elucidate this paradox of the connectedness of
things: - the many things, the one world without and within.
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