http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissenschaft_der_Logik I quickly skimmed it. Although the irony of being and essence may be seen as more pervasive, the relativism of concepts must transcend the nature of 'being' and 'essence' (since they are only concepts.) I just thought I would throw that in there. Enjoy! (And, by the way, without fertilizer your appetite would be your main concern.) Jim Bromer
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Hegel classified what you are describing as "illusory > being"... but don't go reading the wikipedia on it. There is a real > hegelian there that turned it into a pile of pompous bullcrap (find > several revisions back when I described it, making halfway sense... > impossible though ever to really understand Hegel). > > On 8/8/13, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It seems obvious that if the bases for all >>> higher thought are themselves relativistic then the foundations of >>> thought will be permeated with flaws and won't be able to withstand >>> much building. I think it is a misinterpretation to say that thought >>> requires a ground of sensory input and the evidence for this is that >>> the grounding issue has been widely known since the 1980s and yet >>> progress in AGI has been slower than Moore's Law (in my opinion) since >>> then. The structure of thought has to be fluid, but it has to be a >>> slow fluid. My conjecture is that almost all reasoning, even >>> something that has been habituated, requires some imagination. >>> Jim Bromer >> >> Perhaps the imagination has to be used to check the structure of an >> extension of an idea (even in the more mundane cases) to make sure >> that there is nothing in the new extension that would make the >> structure unstable. >> Jim Bromer >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> AGI >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae >> Modify Your Subscription: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-f5817f28 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
