Greetings Ron,
I've read your essay, but I did not understand what exactly you were
getting at. And this post, too, leaves me puzzled. I'm in the
pattern mode of exploration, and maybe that's inhibiting my
understanding. From your title, I do think I agree with you. I have
settled on inductive and deductive logic as useful tools. Not sure
about 'is'. Is it somehow like the scalpel in carving up reality?
Marsha
At 03:53 PM 12/9/2008, you wrote:
To all,
In my essay "the function of form" I trace the origins of SOM
To the Hebrew word "is" and how it effected Greek thought.
In it I state that Parmenides concluded that "is" or being or
awareness, always was. That logos, the common understanding,
the abstract, always existed.
Plato argued that logos was form. Aristotle maintained that it
was the arguement from the particular experience to a universal
understanding.
Logos is the root word of logic. Logos in christianity was made flesh
and worshiped as God.
Parmenides maintained that the only way to realize truth was through
abstract thought, through reason.
Logos is the pivotal Greek ideal that wrought SOM.
The worship of logic as God
Heraclitus popularized the word and as I believe was often misunderstood.
Heraclitus proclaimed that the world was constatnly in flux and that
only through
the abstract universal understanding of things may any sort of order
be derived.
He stated:
"all things come to pass in accordance with this word" and "the word
is common."
It is "the account which governs the universe (ta hola, the whole)."
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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