Philosophy

You know what the problem is with Philosophy? No one knows what you are talking about. The worst part of it all is that you don't even know what your own philosophy is talking about.

In my mind, philosophy is like the picture on the left. It makes sense but it doesn't make any sense. It makes sense in your mind what is going on but it doesn't make sense in a way that it's impossible for it to occur like that. Philosophy also makes sense that it could work but at the same time, you don't know if it would actually work.

For my philosophy research paper, I was writing about synthetic a priori knowledge. If you don't know what that is, it basically means that you gain knowledge through innate ideas and that the predicate gives new information about the subject. An example of synthetic is "All bachelors are happy." That can be true or that can't be true. If you were to say, "All bachelors are unmarried," that doesn't give you new information about bachelors because "bachelor" means that a man is not married. An example of a priori is time because you can't gain knowledge of time through sense experiences. You know that time exists because you have innate ideas of time (or that's what Kant believed). Now that you are thoroughly confused, I will tell you what I was writing about. Just kidding. I won't tell you what I was writing about but I was really confused when I suggested a new way of proving the existence of synthetic a priori propositions. I knew it made sense but I couldn't wrap my head around it so I read it over and over again. Even after reading it so many times, I still wasn't able to wrap my head around it so I decided to leave it alone because I knew it made sense. I couldn't understand my own logic! I felt really dumb after that.