A rival viewpoint

In a far-reaching and crucial respect, the encyclopedic way of knowing is a hermeneutic posture not of enlightened clarification but of contestation and negation. Modern projects of absorption are, in brief, self-deceived. Etic language is not the outside presentation of something inside (emic). It is simply a rival construal of true knowledge.—One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, 195