The following presentation was made literally thirty minutes before my Master's thesis defense, when I thought to myself, hey, I should put together some slides!  Luckily I had everything I needed already... you'll have to imagine how I skilfully (ahem...) wove all the slides into a seamless tapestry.

There is a necessary recursion at the very heart of epistemology. Epistemology can never be founded upon a principle of linearity, where thinking traces its origin to something that lies before thinking, and somehow emerges or grows out of it, because the very existence of this "before", whatever its nature, must always be assumed...