My sister told me once that you'll either "get" philosophy (i.e. understand), or you never will. What she meant was that when you read some particular philosophy, it will either click right away, or it will never click at all regardless of how long you study it. I've thought about this a lot since we talked about it, and I'm not so sure that I agree. There are some philosophies that are easy to state: the world is round, the earth revolves around the sun. These may not be easy to fathom for someone, but they are not difficult to express. Some philosophies are not easy to state: Derrida's Of Grammatology. (I use this as an example because this is what I was reading when we had this conversation). Yes it is true that the first two examples are resolved by science, but when they were first introduced, they were philosophy-based. Philosophy based on observation of physical actions but philosophy nonetheless. When the Greeks first introduced the idea that the earth was indeed round, many disagreed. In fact to such a point that the idea was squelched, globally, for a long time (read: thousands of years). In fact some people still refuse to believe that the earth is round. uh... I'm not sure where I was going with this... I probably should have either: A.) Written it down when it occured to me, or B.) Finished the post on the same day that I started it. What I've written still makes sense to me, I'm just not sure where it was going. Maybe it was just so I could say, "Hahaha. The Flat Earth Society. Whatta buncha dummies." How terribly anti-climactic... Posts such as this probably reinforce to someone that I'm not very good at relationships...