Ham said to Joe: For me, the answer lies in the theory of Negation. If the Absolute Source (God) is the perfect unity of all that is or can ever be, then the potentiality of this identity is negation. That is to say, what is by nature absolute and undifferentiated can create only by "negating nothingness" to produce difference. Once Difference is established as the subjective mode of experience, relational otherness becomes the value construct of a cognitive agent who himself relates valuistically to his Creator. Also, inasmuch as nothingness is antithetical to Essence, the principle of negation is consistent with the essential ontology.
Give some thought to this concept, Joe; it may enable you to define "unity" in a non-numerical way. Ron: Again the old problem of the one and the many and again you try to solve it by somehow introducing "nothingness" into the "absolute" like a character in a play. You said: "what is by nature absolute and undifferentiated can create only by "negating nothingness" to produce difference." Some questions you need to address in your ontology: 1.If what is by nature absolute and undifferentiated, how does "nothingness" appear out of it? 2. since nothingness can not logically exist within what is absolute and undifferentiated how may it be negated? 3. Any negation of nothingness is going to logically result in nothingness. something can not logically come from nothing. ========================================================================== Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
