Propositions are generally said to involve a resonant part (dislocation from terminus) – sense, and a consonant part (concurrence of terminus and origin) – reference. We will say that resonance is the ‘medium’ of intension and consonance is the ‘medium’ of extension. These are typically assigned a temporal dimension, and hence the strong subordination[1] of … More Preamble on Resonance and Consonance
“Sensible equals “wish” to be such as The Equal itself, but cannot be equal in the same way” – Richard Patterson, Image and Reality “Forms may resemble their more imperfect cognate images below them on the metaphysical hierarchy, but this resemblance cannot be determinative; the causality is supposed to go the other way round” – … More The Revelatory Image
“Would you be willing to say, said I, that the division in respect of reality and truth or the opposite is expressed by the proportion?” – Plato “[Mathematical number] is itself the law which it seeks to establish, the end and aim of research” – Spengler View as a pdf here Husserl’s transcendental idealism arguably … More A Nascent Sympathy
General Remarks “There is no difference between something’s being meaningless and meaning-saturated, or should we say: the distinction itself is meaningless?” – 2013 ““What is being?” Infamously the subject of the question figures in its framing. I was drawn as a young man to paint these two occurrences with a different brush […], though remaining … More Diagrammatic Scholium
INDEX Above Sovereign Being Brachistochrone Combative recentering Deferment Definition Demiurge Equality Functionality Ideality Inversion Latency Liberal Luminosity Metric Minor / major Pole Resonance Sample ~ ABOVE-SOVEREIGN “The political logic is persuasive: there is a fold of contrast against which we are all equal (a Shangdi or Above Sovereign). Beside this monolith rises the obfuscation of Enlightenment humanism, and … More Remarks Organised by Theme
“What is being?” Infamously the subject of the question figures in its framing. I was drawn as a young man to paint these two occurrences with a different brush (surely it must be necessary if the question can have meaning-?), though remaining acutely aware of being’s much lauded ‘focality’. I came to characterize these meanings … More Preamble on Being
Codex Seraphinianus is a projection of a civilisation drawn from a few puzzling archaeological remnants. Much as a proto-language is set up in the temporal place where contemporary dialects converge, the alien civilisation of the codex has stumbled upon artefacts of human civilisation, or intercepted our relentless radio chatter, and tried to formulate what manner of … More Codex Seraphinianus
preestablished disharmony 