Because the preceding puzzle has been so nicely constructed, there's something very pleasant about the inconclusiveness of the closing image of "Muslin." Like an open cage with something invisible inside, the poem catches the
irresolvability of experience, our inability to actually judge life from its midst.
The concepts of resolvability and
irresolvability in topological spaces was introduced by E.
The question of what qualifies for inclusion in the cultural heritage is, in its unsettling
irresolvability, a part of Russia's cultural self-conception, both official and unofficial, and is constantly being posed anew even up to the present day.
As difficult and intractable as the task might be, somewhere in the stock of history, experience, and tradition is the grist for resolution: indeterminacy and ambiguity do not connote chaos, confusion, and
irresolvability. If our human equipment, say, language and thought, is impossibly unpredictable, it assuredly provides support.
(13) The
irresolvability of this tension ensures the reflective distance of philosophy, thus allowing for its ongoing attempts to comprehend itself and the world.
