ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the philosophy in which the human condition evolves from an interplay of certainty and ambiguity. In Ulysses, Joyce lets Stephen associate space and geography with the body, the visible and the external, while time and history are connected with soul, invisible and internal. The poetic approach to self-reference is often close to the mythic. The struggle of certainty and ambiguity is in all life, in theory and practice, in society and individual. It penetrates into the deepest structures of exchange and thereby into all modes of communication. The Church of Logic has its approach to the problem of internal and external. It was codified in Russell's theory of types, whose very purpose was to find a method for resolving paradox. The techniques for achieving such unity of form and content are as numerous as their practitioners, including the use of bricolage, puns, alliterations, rhymes, off-rhymes, and on and on.
