Philosophy and the Art of Reason: Let us enter the high country of the mind

pu·ri·ty 1. The quality or condition of being pure.
2. A quantitative assessment of homogeneity or uniformity.
3. Freedom from sin or guilt; innocence; chastity: "Teach your children . . . the belief in purity of body, mind and soul" (Emmeline Pankhurst).
4. The absence in speech or writing of slang or other elements deemed inappropriate to good style.
5. The degree to which a color is free from being mixed with other colors.

purity
1. the state or quality of being pure
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) (Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours

pu•ri•ty

n. 1. the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that contaminates, pollutes, etc.
2. freedom from any admixture or modifying addition.
3. cleanness.
4. freedom from guilt or evil; innocence.
5. freedom from foreign or inappropriate elements; careful correctness: purity of expression.
6. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color.

next question please

 

All quite true but I was looking more for what purity actually is not the definitions of it. Perhaps I should expound.

What do we define as being pure or having purity? Is it a concept outside of simple human understanding or do we define it?

 

We define it, hence the posting of the various definitions.

You keep asking if this or that is outside of human understanding or rather "simple human understanding" whatever that is, yet you fail to recognize one key factor;
No concepts are outside of human understanding because humans have created any and all concepts you may want to consider in this thread.

I guessing maybe you need to rethink your general approach. :2thumbsup:

 

What I am seeking is the understanding of things that are not reliant upon humanity to be.

 

Yeah, but that's kinda like a puppy chasing his own tail, it might be fun and exercising, but are ya really gonna accomplish much?

What things are requiring understanding that are not reliant on humanity?

Without our ability to remember the past, ascertain the present and project into the future, there is nothing needing understanding. The need for understanding only exists because we do perceive past, present, future and have the cognitive ability to ask questions such as the one you ask.

It feels as if you want to leave out the human component, but that is nigh onto impossible.

Heisenberg uncertainty principle or Schrodinger cat, take you pick.
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Actually there is also the non-local and non-separable causality to consider for a third alternative.