[Author's warning: This chapter is the most verbose in the book.] Readers who don't read the verbose part can just pull down and see what's going on at the very tail point. 4:45 a.m.

Sitting in front of the steward's pavilion in the cemetery, the Cycke wrote a letter to Schuilonu, which is also his recent study of the culture of the island: "I don't think there can be a book that contains the truth (or truth?) of the whole world. At most, like the Book of Changes, the laws of world change are briefly written.

"In other words, there is no such thing as 'reading a book and understanding everything.'"

"This is true of all the ancient books of our country. It's useless to read one, you have to read many other books, gain experience in life, and accumulate your own understanding of the world, so that you can really understand what that book is talking about.

"I used to take it for granted, but now I'm realizing that it's not everyone's common sense in this world.

"There are a lot of things that I take for granted, but they are not common sense. I used to think that those who thought that peace in the world could only be brought by the way that "all men get wisdom from the same book" were as intentional as Atatamopup.

"But now I know that it was the truth for some people. And at the same time, they demand the same "truth" from others.

"To know what they think is true, one must first know what 'self-evident' is. This is an important word in the culture of Duozhou. This term falls within the scope of praise.

"There has never been a word for 'self-evident' in our culture, not even anything similar, and I can only understand the concept through examples. (This translation is not specified by me.) The literal translation of the original text is supposed to be "self-proving", but it does have the meaning of unproven. And he is an important basis for Duozhou culture to comment on whether something is worthy of admiration. Truth is "the most self-evident thing." The definition they say is: it doesn't need to be proven and can't be proved, it's definitely right. In other words, he himself proved and knew that he was right—that proof and clarity should be two (often and consecutively) things, but in this word they are conflated.

"There are other extended uses, but we're just talking about the basics.

"Self-evident first appeared in mathematical theories of classical antiquity. "Self-evident" refers to the situation where "parallel lines are parallel lines" and "right angles are right angles", etc., and it is not possible to write a formula to prove whether it is right or wrong, but only to say that it is right at a glance. As mathematics continued to develop, it was discovered that things were not so simple, and another concept of "public assumptions" appeared.

"Later, the people of Duozhou also applied 'self-evident' to culture, and I can't agree with their usage. The term 'self-evident' emphasizes the aspect of oneself that cannot be proven when applied culturally. Therefore, trying to prove that whether it is intended to support or overturn it, or simply verify, corroborate, and corroborate, it is blasphemous and cannot be done to study its credibility.

"When applied to culture, nothing can be said except 'what is right is right' (what is right self-evidently proves itself right). You can't even say, 'Because that's it, it's right.'" Because when there is a "cause," it is "proved right," not "self-evidently right." This is blasphemy.

"You can't say, 'Because that's so, it's right.'" In this case, it is not permissible for people to say, 'Because it's not so, it's wrong.'" 』

"Self-evidentness does not allow people to judge. Once you move out, you can only agree unconditionally.

"Atatamopup will say that the self-evident means in the cultural realm: no matter how much counter-evidence you have, as long as I say it, I'm right. Since nothing can be challenged or overturned without proof, say first to win. Whoever has the right to speak is right, and whoever has no say is wrong.

"I saw those people's books that said that natural human rights are universal values, and universal values are self-evident.

"Atatamopup will say that the 'universal values' of those people means 'to spread my values to your world.' 』

"In practice, it is clear that Atatamopup's definition is true. This worldview of the only truth does not correspond to the world I observe. 」

A few years ago, in the Althara, Koro had said to Syke, "It is too simple to love those who know how to repay Entu, and it is not worth doing it if anyone is willing to do it!"

After that, at the end of the world, in the Apple Dream branch, Syk told Seren, "If I had strength, I would protect the good people who are willing to lend a helping hand to the weak, so that they can multiply, and this is justice!"

At that time, those dialogues were generally not allowed to have "because so", and Xi Ke attached importance to "because so".

Rick's thinking is taken for granted, and the broad is self-evident.

In real life, when writing articles, speaking, and even translating, taking it for granted and self-evident is often confused with self-evident. There will be people who use the word self-evident when they want to express what is taken for granted, and there will be people who use the word self-evident when they want to express self-evidentness.

An important difference between whether the word is inadequate, the extension of the usage, or the fact that it is really trying to convey the concept is:

In course, if the reality proves that it is actually beneficial, it will make a right thing more justified, and if the reality proves that it is actually harmful, then the matter is not right.

The self-evidentness is reinforced by insisting that it should be done after the reality has proved that it is in fact harmful, and if the reality proves that it is in fact beneficial, the matter is no longer as noble and worth fighting as the self-evident.

Nick continues: "The question of 'right angles are right angles,' which in our culture is called 'self-evident,' is not self-evident. Since we can still tell that an acute angle is not a right angle, then the right angle must meet some definition in the viewer's mind that excludes acute angles (a definition that cannot be written in words), thus proving that it is a right angle. He's just, "Because it fits the definition of acute angle, it's an acute angle." The process of proof is not put into writing, and it is not unproven.

"There is no such thing as self-proofing in this world. Anything is not in the human mind, it is not in the human heart. For example, "the sound of a cow is the sound of a cow," is this self-proven? Because the sound of a cow does not prove that he is a cow call, it is a human who judges in his own head that he is a cow call. There must be urban kids who can listen to cow barking like something else. Since the human head is not his own for the cow cry, he is not self-proven. They think it's a self-evident situation, which we call 'revealing it' (this is not a word of praise or disparagement, and both bad and good things can have this nature). It's just very easy to judge, not without judgment.

"It is not self-evident that it is self-evident, that it is obvious, that it is unquestionable.

"Compared to the 'take it for granted' that we still demand to be reasonable, 'self-evident' is simply self-righteous to the extreme. I think that in the field of culture, it can barely be called self-evident, at most there is only "the importance of eating, drinking, lazing and sleeping", and even he is not self-evident, but "verifiable" that he will die if he does not do it. 」

After Norpig Ssang was punished on the spot by the security officers of the Ataro Demon, the abolition group hung a sign on the gate of the Ataro Demonic Letter, "You died because of a theatrical performance that the government wanted to distract the people. poster. Anyone who has even the slightest hint of facing reality knows that this is not in the case of Nopig, but they do not hesitate to say that this is the cause of Nopigue's death, precisely because they believe that the abolition of the death penalty and the death order are self-evident. As much as they talk about it, they don't really try to prove that Nopig doesn't deserve to die, because Nopig doesn't need to die. They are just looking for excuses to silence those who insist that "we only take things for granted". They just played the "justification of the abolition" of the words of their abolitionist comrades around the world, as if they were playing a record, to everyone they met who opposed the abolition. As for why the other side opposes the abolition of the death penalty, it is self-evident anyway, and they don't really care.

That's why Broady would say a long list of things that had nothing to do with Norpig, as if he were reading a treatise. He's carouseling what he's heard.

Initially he supported the abolition of the death penalty on the grounds that it might be wrongly convicted, but later accepted the notion that it was self-evident. Therefore, when the abolitionist movement developed in the obvious wrong direction, he thought it was self-evident and could not be found wrong like Sister Dai. Since it was self-evident and could not be agreed with without persuasion, he was never persuaded when confronted with unreasonable words such as "life imprisonment without parole must be abolished", and he was convinced.

Xi Ke then wrote: "The concept of 'self-evident' is like the lingering ghosts of the dead in the Duozhou culture, haunting them forever. It's no wonder that scientists are inventing the concept of "laws" separately.

"The Law is infinitely close to the truth, but it can never be treated as the truth. His credibility comes from the challenge he has been and will always be challenged, not because he is 'self-evident'. When someone proposes a hypothesis, is put to the test, and becomes a law through countless tests, that person will certainly get a good reputation, but when the law is likely to be overturned, the real scientist (and it cannot be denied that some scientists are false) will be very excited and happy, and try to meet that moment. Although the one who found the theory of relativity is too strong, and every challenger has lost badly at the moment, they will continue to work hard. Scientists celebrate every time a theory that was thought to be true is overturned and found to be inapplicable, because it brings them closer to the truth.

"Suffice it to say that the greatest obstacle to the search for truth is the word 'truth.' This concept is self-evident, and sooner or later it will have the same fate as the phlogiston theory. 」

He changed the sheet of paper and continued, "We Etheros don't talk about the truth, we talk about the Tao. There is a Tao everywhere – and it can also be found outside of books, of course. Whether it is a glorious palace or water and fertilizer, there is a way in it, whether someone is injured and then decides to double the injury to an unrelated person, or someone is injured and then decides to never hurt others, there is a way in it, whether it is throwing the ball up and catching it after it falls, or dreaming that the ball goes up to the moon and is finally picked up by a rabbit, there is a way in it, whether it is a sound limb or a lack of hands and feet, no matter all the ups and downs of the world, there is a way.

"We can discover the Tao but we can't decide what it is, we can use the Tao but we can't apply our views to it, we can talk about the Tao, but the Tao doesn't need to be known by us. The Tao is the root to which all change leads, the name we call it.

"The Tao is very different from the true theological definition of truth, and I think it is more like the truth that scientists are chasing through laws and hypotheses. The gods uphold the dualism of the true God and the devil, and regard only the part of the world they like (which they think is good) as the truth, and the rest as the devil. They obviously can't accept that there is truth in homosexuality, and they can't accept that the truth doesn't care about human behavior. The inability to accept the truth does not set the norms of human behavior, much less change because human beings abide by certain norms.

"Whether human beings think it is good or bad, whether it is beneficial or harmful to human beings, whether human beings like it or not, whether they know it or not, whether they believe it or not, the Tao is in all things.

"We have sorted out the truth through enlightenment, and based on what we know, we begin to judge the good and bad pros and cons, and after judging the good and bad pros and cons, we take it for granted from here. So we always think about the basis behind the matter, to examine whether it is based on truth or paradox—and to find out the right path that humanity must take.

"The logic of 'self-evident' that 'it is more noble if you don't think' is the most despised in our culture. What is not based on the Word is not even a reason, it is just empty talk. We despise empty talk to the point where we can't even imagine anyone accepting such a thing as a rule of their life – and there really is.

"If we look at the world with preconceived eyes, how can we see the Tao? Without the Tao, how can we reason out? If we don't even know the truth, how can we know what we are going to do? It is no wonder that those who believe in the true God and believe in it very "religiously" still ask God to tell them what they can and cannot do when they are old, just because they don't understand reason, and they have no way to control themselves in their lives, and they can only rely on God forever.

"'Do what you want, don't go beyond that. They can't do it, they can't understand it. 」

Suppose a person points to a cup with his left hand and the word "cup" written down with his right.

When a human being is educating, he has to point to something in his right hand and tell someone that it is what he is pointing at with his left hand, or vice versa. This pedagogy is feasible. However, human beings must also be able to recognize that their left and right fingers are not the same thing, otherwise their ability to see the world will be impaired.

The difference between what his left hand and his right hand refer to is the most basic difference between a common name and a name.

"The Tao is very good, the name is very good, the name is not famous, the name is not very famous. This time, Xi Ke remembered the entire sentence at the beginning of the Tao Te Ching.

Wick bowed his head and continued: "Because of the nature of the Tao, the Tao does not only appear in the Taoists. Not only do the Etella families attach importance to the Tao, but even in a place where the Etaro characters are not recognized, and the word "Dao" cannot be heard, read or written, there may still be people who have attained the Dao.

"He who knows what the Tao is, does not think that everyone outside himself does not know. It's like saying, 'Only I know there's air.'" Any earthling who breathes is likely to discover the existence of air on their own. 」

Suppose there is a planet that is outside the horizon of the Earth's "Dao" events. Since the discovery of the Tao by the Etharaus, even the fastest rays have not been able to reach there from Earth, and there is still a possibility that the aliens above may appear to be enlightened. Because the Tao will also be on their planet, they are just as likely to attain the Tao as the earthlings.

He also wrote, "The Etharaic saints will seek wisdom from the common people, for they too can have the Tao.

"The Tao is not xenophobic and it is not open. The Tao has no boundaries. Only by learning from all channels as much as possible can we attain enlightenment – sanctification.

"The Tao cannot be written, it cannot be known only by a certain group of people, so this situation is normal: each of us who reads is a miscellaneous family that accepts hundreds of schools. Even for the average person who is literate, at least what the nine and ten schools are talking about is as common sense, and basic education must be learned. Any thinking Etharo will at least use several ideas at the same time. This is the reason why people who have read only one book are not qualified to say that they are readers.

"The Tao is not exclusive to anyone. Nothing can dominate the Tao, nor can it be given to anyone to rule.

"Every Ethalor is free, not a puppet of some supreme man who claims to be the truth and no one else has the truth. If there really is God, then God and us human beings are also one and the same, and we are all one of the phenomena born of the Tao. He is a part of the world, just like us. All things are equal in this world, in the Tao, without distinction between gods and people, or even organic or inorganic.

"'There are talents from generation to generation, and a new generation buries the old. The experience of people living in the world as human beings has been passed down from generation to generation, and the Tao has been passed on from generation to generation, and this is how the Ataro culture has developed. Now, the culture is still developing.

"Therefore, everything about the Etharaic culture, whether it is the written scriptures of the scholars or the customs handed down by the people, from ancient times to the present day and in the future, all add up to a holy scripture. 」

Xi Ke stopped writing and found that he had written a bunch of boring things that didn't look like people in love should write. It's all caused by O'Lear. He pondered whether to draw them up and stop sending them.

The three necromancers were tied up by him and placed outside the pavilion. They were knocked out along with O'Lear.

Oriel and Rondamoa were also tied up by him and lay down in the pavilion, and Rick helped them cover the thin quilt.

Ash never returned, nor did he send a message to Xi Ke, which made him a little worried. He closed his eyes and tried to see how Ash was doing, but he couldn't see anything. He was sure that Ash was still active, and it seemed that he had finished sending the child back to the city, and he didn't know what happened after that. He opened his eyes and saw the skeleton of Longda Moya standing ten meters outside the pavilion, facing it motionless. I don't know what I'm thinking.

It's all like this, why didn't the magic hand appear? The city dwellers should have noticed the abnormality and reported the crime. He wondered if it was time to use the Bee Block.

Rick looked down to write a one, only to find the ground next to the fleshless skeleton weird. The soil seems to be moving.

Five seconds later, a half-half skeleton emerged from the dirt, followed by hand bones, and the entire corpse crawled out of the ground.

"Impossible. Xi Kelen froze. The skeleton may have been dead for more than 500 years, and it seems as if it had been scraped together from the earth.

Rick stood up, sword in hand, and said, "Please both of you turn to ashes now!"

"Wait, let me talk to my new friends. The fleshless skeleton said to the half-faced skeleton, "What era are you?"