One may think an understanding as presented in this series is self-defeating in that it embraces contradiction, and therefore can pull magic answers out of a hat whenever a problem arises. But that is not what embracing contradiction provides. What it provides is the understanding that our problems are real things all by themselves, at one level requiring no explanation at all. Embracing contradiction doesn't mean embracing the explosion of truth and implosion of meaning created by overlaying deductive frameworks on paradox. It simply says that problems are real things too. They are contradictions.
What this amounts to, and what deserves further elaboration, is that our ordinary conception is already correct. This understanding places the burden on the theorist to explain why the ordinary conception is right. It is the theorist, after all, who claims things mean something other than they appear. It is the theorist's most honest course to resolve these problems as his or her own. To claim the ordinary conception is wrong is to read a belief into someone not holding that belief—something akin to placing the burden of proof on the accused.
I will desist from elaboration for a while though. I will only note that having touched on implication—a target topic here for quite some time—it too deserves elaboration. Simply keeping it in mind is elaboration enough, but for the pure stimulation of the activity, the reward from the development of clear conceptions creates the merit in elaboration. And seeing the fixed as the implied of our choice, and our choice as implicit in the grasp of things discerned fixed is something open to explanation now. Understanding discovery, surprise and the insisted upon as explained by implication allows us to resolve what problems we as theorists propose. Seeing what we ordinarily do with our problems and happy circumstances as nothing other than examples of those things we as theorist provide in explanation will provide confirmation of our understanding.
A page containing these entries in-line and in sequence can be found at http://patheffect.com/. It contains nothing other than what you may have already read here, except with occasional corrections. Though I imagine one day having corrected there the myriad typos and other minor inaccuracies this blog seems to have seduced me into making, all the major flaws will stay, even there. It's a short read, and perhaps I should keep it that way, but I make no promises.
So, thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you around, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.