Jealousy wants proof
Jealousy wants proof

Summary/Abstract: [...] Although I have no knowledge of it, I am nevertheless going to pretend for a little while that, on the subject of jealousy and knowledge, it is possible to say something else than that the one knows nothing about the other. Knowing about the other is, of course, what jealousy wants to do. It has the recognizable form, therefore, if not of a positive knowledge, then of a search for knowledge, indeed one of the most absorbed and focused forms of that search that may be observed. The "object" of its search, however, that concerning which it seeks irrefutable knowledge, is never a class or species of phenomena, a generalized condition, or a natural law. [...]

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