Quhisy
Deriving their name from their meeting point, the Waters of Truth (quh chempyosyisy in Shoyerchi), Quhisy was a Third Age philosophical school concerned with seeking the truth behind apperances.
Thinkers and philosophers associated with the Quhisy school developed a method of creating and examining theories about the world by asking questions about why things are the way they are and developing answers based on direct observation and investigation. The Third Age predates creation of the gods, and the Quhisy were interested in finding out if magic and reality were the same thing, or if reality had its own immutable laws. As a result of their investigations, they were the first to posit the now widely-accepted two-world model, the first to identify Iron as the foundation of Reality. This, combined with the Kankai model of the world as a woven tapestry, forms our understanding of reality today.
Key ideas
The majority surviving work can be attributed to the teachers Ncha and Kwumchu.The nature of reality
An early teacher of the school, Ncha is known only through later works, written by his students. He attempted to classify everything that exists, coming to define nine categories of reality: rational and irrational thoughts (logic and reason, emotion and instinct), visible, invisible, and intrinsic reality (observable objects, forces such as gravity, and mathematics), magic (including dream and imagination), context (inferred meaning), time, and place.Empirical interrogation
Kwumchu was the first to attempt to apply Charajian medical methods to questions about the world. She argued that reality must be tested and that indctive reasoning is the root of knowledge but cannot be knowledge itself. Refined over her lifetime, the resulting interrogative philosophy - examination (Shoyerchi: cherdhesy), reasoning (Sho: osyisy), experimentation (Sho: ekesy), knowledge (Sho: mchosy) - is the first codified example of what is now the scientific method.Disbandment
No works directly attributable to members of the Quhisy have been found postdating 4.13. Known students of the school went on to found or be involved with other schools of thought, and the principles of Quhisy philosophy were adopted and expanded on by sucessive schools.
By 4.37, philosophers had begun to react to the coming of the gods and divided into theological, arcane, and materialist schools of interrogration and the integrated sytle of thought practiced by the Quhisy school fell out of favour.
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