Introduction

Jacques Pepin is famous for many things, one of which is deboning a chicken. Pepin starts with a whole chicken and, using only his experienced hands, a sharp knife and a towel, deftly removes every bone while keeping the meat entirely intact. I want to do that with philosophy, with truth. I want to expertly identify the joints and tendons of reality, the points of articulation, where the things in themselves naturally separate. I want to analytically carve the world into its component parts so that I can examine each part at its most simple. I want to splay the meat of reality neatly in front of me.

Language and thought and reality don’t work like that.

Reality appears to be an infinitely and paradoxically complex organic whole. Examples: unemployment (underemployment),