What he said immediately after the part you mention was: “The Art must have a purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion”
He wasn’t talking about pseudo-rationality. When he talks about “The Art”, he’s talking about rationality.
And he’s wrong: truth points to itself.
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What he said immediately after the part you mention was: “The Art must have a purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion”
He wasn’t talking about pseudo-rationality. When he talks about “The Art”, he’s talking about rationality.
And he’s wrong: truth points to itself.