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D’you ever read a very famous philosopher and think that he’s obviously wrong about something very simple?  I’m thinking of Heidegger’s criticisms of human essence.  I read some of this and thought to myself, this guy doesn’t understand Aristotle.  At the very same time I thought to myself, this guy obviously does understand Aristotle.

That’s what it is like to be a philosopher in training.  This stuff happens all the time.  You get caught up in the tension between contradictory thoughts, but you move on because there’s no time to solve the puzzle.

It happens so very often.  After a while it can leave you feeling lost at sea.