Some Conclusions

In the preceding chapters, I have tried to answer some relatively precisely posed questions with relatively precisely formulated answers. However, the questions (“Which world is the real world?” and so on) with which the investigation began are themselves not precise—they are vague and ambiguous. They are compelling because they are engaging, disturbing, universal, and demanding of answers. The relatively precise answers emerge by more or less arbitrary choice of certain special lines of precization and concept creation (for example, ‘system’). Therefore, they do not cover the questions in their natural wealth of meaning. The question arises, Could I offer brief answer formulations that cover the questions without introducing so much vagueness and ambiguity? What follows are attempts at such answer formulations. In keeping with the goal, the style is simple and dogmatic.