even the rational mode of operation itself, that of the value of reason, cannot be confirmed by the process of rationalistic systematisation, but need ultimately to be intuited.
Consider perhaps that Socrates was not the hero of rationalism, as i had thought, but rather the hero of intuition; his crimes (the eponymous dialogoc method) were percieved because they pointed people toward the floors of their own expert rational knowledge - exposed the left hemisphere to its own inadequacy against its own measures.
