Let's say everything is true, relatively speaking.
The 'I' (= X) that knows that 'P' is true — what justifies its singularity?
Everybody is in too many pieces. People are irrational.
A relativism of individuals does not explain how a person can affirm both horns of a dilemma.
What a contradiction does is to shatter the 'I'. The 'I' that is a Christian on Sunday is not the 'I' that never gives change to a beggar.
So all these 'i's are strung together into the big 'I' like pearls on a necklace. The 'self', under the things we've said above, becomes something like a balloon full of millions of eyes, each wanting to burst out.
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