Pure knowledge without a viewpoint is self-contradictory

Evidence

The point of view of pure knowledge is contradictory; there is only the point of view of engaged knowledge. This amounts to saying that knowledge and action are only two abstract aspects of an original, concrete relation. The real space of the world is the space which Lewin calls “hodological.” A pure knowledge in fact would be a knowledge without a point of view; therefore a knowledge of the world but on principle located outside the world. But this makes no sense; the knowing being would be only knowledge since he would be defined by his object and since his object would disappear in the total indistinction of reciprocal relations. Thus knowledge can be only an engaged upsurge in a determined point of view which one is. For human reality, to be is to-be-there; that is, “there in that chair,” “there at that table,” “there at the top of that mountain, with these dimensions, this orientation, etc.” It is an ontological necessity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 836

Categorization

• XREF: Hodological space (Lewin) and ‘to-be-there’ directly anticipate Beauvoir’s situated freedom and her critique of abstract transcendence. — connects to: Pure logical reasoning thrives in loneliness but produces empty pseudo-truth; Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified; Pure reason without emotion becomes mere tautology and unconsciousness — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 150 (+8 more)
• DEFINE: Introduces hodological space and the ontological necessity of being-there, grounding freedom’s situational character.

Broader Connections

• Pure logical reasoning thrives in loneliness but produces empty pseudo-truth #corroborates (0.85)
• Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified #corroborates (0.75)