"..."
At this point, Ronan had clearly ventured beyond the syllabus. He fell silent for a moment, then, while most people were still confused, began to backtrack. "Let's not consider anything too profound for now. Let's just talk about the practical situation..."
Seriously, in another setting with someone else, you'd get punched for this!
Long Qi rolled his eyes. There were probably quite a few people feeling the same way.
"Configuration is a kind of intuition—at least, its mode of expression is highly intuitive. Yet correspondingly, there are actually very few entities or concepts in this world that can be clearly described or defined. Many things are formless, lacking concrete manifestations, beyond the scope of what our senses and even cognition can reach.
"When confronting such targets, we cannot find linguistic tools to define them during observation. We can only distort them... Hmm, psychics may be more familiar with this experience.
"When facing such objects, all we can say is, thank this era for giving us Extraordinary Power and Self Logic, allowing the 'self' to play a greater role. Rather than following the rules of the cold material world, we follow the rules of 'I,' making the 'object' more meaningful to us.
"The underlying logic is this: only after a relationship is established do we have the opportunity for further understanding."
That sounded... pretty scummy.
Long Qi had learned his lesson by now. When Ronan said things like that, he only latched onto the "key points"—the sentences he could still barely understand.
As for whether there might be semantic "distortions"...
Well, wasn't that convenient?
Besides, Long Qi felt that even Ronan, as the lecturer, had probably never expected the students to fully understand the meaning behind his words. At least, not "right now."
"Observation is the most direct way to