Plato and Hume illustrate that system is essential for rational thought.  But they also illustrate that the closed system is the death of living understanding.  In their explanations they wander beyond all system.  They thus illustrate in their own procedures that our primary insight is a mixture of clarity and vagueness.  The finite focus of clarity fades into an environment of vagueness stretching into the darkness of what is merely beyond.

Alfred North Whitehead,  Modes of Thought,  Lecture IV  (1938)

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A Treatise of Human Nature (excerpts)

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