Gospel Koan 50.3

Invitation to Realize

Koan 50.3

All knowledge is sensed: 'transduced' by either noumenon: 'having been known' or phenomenon: 'having been shown'.

Summary Exposition

The central mechanism here is the transduction of reality into knowledge through two fundamental channels: the internal, direct apprehension of a thing-in-itself (noumenon) and the external, mediated appearance of it (phenomenon). A potent example is knowing a tree; one knows it noumenally through the direct, private experience of its presence, and phenomenally through its public, measurable attributes like height and leaf color. The critical implication is that all knowing is a conversion, not a direct capture. Cognition is thus a bridge between these two modes of givenness, and a comprehensive epistemology must account for both the known and the shown as complementary sources of information.

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