The only thing that kept me going was the absolute knowledge that I was doing the best thing for my baby.
Whereas Kant had claimed that humans could aspire only to knowledge of phenomena, Hegel set out to prove that, as in the metaphysics of old, reason was in fact capable of an "absolute knowledge" that penetrated into essences, or things-in-themselves.
Trappings are traps in this case, and the poem closes in "the sudden absolute knowledge Brad would rather be dead".
Any parent with Harry Potter-obsessed kids under the age of 12 and a PlayStation 3 will find it an absolute boon: you can park a bunch of kids in front of it and leave them to their own devices, safe in the knowledge that they should remain enthralled for at least an hour, and it won't be rotting their brains.
But England, absolute underdogs, showed in defeat a level of mental steel and stubbornness that ought to leave all of their supporters feeling secure in the knowledge that, before long, this team will be challenging for major honours.
At times it felt a little bruising, but then the knowledge that she expected the absolute best from you made you believe you were, in some way, capable of it.
Second, however, it also means that true philosophy cannot simply abandon philosophical rationality for positively disclosed truth-contents or dogma, and that the critical function of rationality has a constitutive role in the formation of absolute knowledge.
But my absolute favorite reason to proudly eat buffalo wings is the knowledge that, with every saucy, saturated, ranch-dipped bite, I embrace an act that in the past was used to stereotype and demean Black people such as myself.
Revel in the absolute satisfaction of penning that tick.
