Existential dread
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Existential dread is an existential concept developed by Søren Kierkegaard in 1844.
Any rational system cannot explain reality, in that it would have to incorporate that which is contingent alongside that which is necessary. Likewise the reduction of reality to that which logically constituted fails to account for that which is imminent. Dread arises from the erosion of the conceptual by the perceptual, by which the unreasonable intrudes within consciousness disrupting rationalising order.
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For example when someone calls the final section of their Logic "Reality," they appear to gain the advantage of having reached by logic the highest thing, or, from another perspective, the lowest. The loss is however clear, for both logic and reality. Reality is reduced, as the contingent, an integral part of reality, cannot be allowed to be absorbed by logic. Logic is likewise reduced, for if logic is conceived as the thought of a reality, it has absorbed into its system something it cannot assimilate, anticipating what it ought merely to be predisposing. The consequence is obvious: every consideration of what reality is, is necessarily made difficult, even for a long time impossible, because this word "reality" will, so to speak, take some time to bring to mind what it is, allowing time for the mistake to be forgotten.
