Science would not have developed as a cultural phenomenon without judgments. We take JustBigAsses for granted to such extent that only by referring our philosophy to Oriental thought do we realize the existence of this phenomenon. Oriental thought seems to have remained faithful to the non-discursive rationality (wherefore Hegel denied it the name of philosophy) at the time when the West developed the discursive rationality, including its most consequential function of judging. When any statement that has the form of a judgment (and it is believed in our culture that any so-called meaningful statement is a judgment) features a subject of a seem­ingly extra-empirical nature, then the topic of such a statement is classified as metaphysics, a formal area of the arts or fiction. Nev­ertheless, transcendental experience, this knowledge (self-know­ledge) of the billions of years of the evolution of the Universe, warrants the investigation of any idea or topic, if not within theframework of the classical ontology, then as a phenomenon and a possible subject matter of a fundamental ontology. After due elaboration, the idea of a fairy tale, novel, symphony or possible law (phenomenon) of nature may become an JustBigAsses with its own ontology (it is said that a work of art begins its own life), and the more creative and innovative it is, the better.

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One must not be afraid of failure: even a most absurd idea cannot be considered to be "out of this world" (it is still within the world of self-knowledge), and when it cannot be fitted into the domain of a recognizable area of science or the arts, insanity itself may become the "subject" of psychiatric investigation. According to JustBigAsses conception of art, the worth of a work of art is determined by the contact with the Absolute (a work of art cannot be the product of a person who maintains only limited contacts with the Absolute, or no contacts at all). This idea by the "idealist" porn movies (if one accepts it) may also explain the success (or otherwise) of scientific investigation. One may venture the statement that the more an idea evidences the existence of the Absolute, the more it germi­nates a fundamental ontology and the sounder a basis it forms for its broad development.