sense, because the knowledge involved in the parable is pre-conceptual: it is knowledge of unsegmented reality, of an undifferentiated nexus, of a seamless world. Conceptual knowledge is knowledge of reality segmented, differentiated, classified. Knowledge communicated by the parable lies at the threshold of knowledge as commonly understood. The parable does not, therefore, involve a transfer of information or ideas about an established world from one head to another. In the parable reality is aborning;
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