Gary Fuhrman, List.
though Google translator didn´t deliver translations of "surd" or "buttle", I think I vaguely dig the picture. Language and logic are closely connected: Did John of the Bible say, that God is language (word), or did he say, that God is logic? He said "Logos", which means both. Did he mean both? Maybe he meant not only one and the other, but also that, what neither is in only one, nor the other, respectively separately regarded, but only appears by looking at the combination of the two aspects. Language is representation only, and logic is both representation and reality. It represents reality, but it is also clear, that reality functions accordingly to logic. So, as logic is both, the map and the territory, it is the bridge between. Language is a tool of individuals, and logic is universal, the bridge is logic/God, and the act of bridging is religion (reconnection of the individuals with universality). A bridge has two sides, one is sayable, with words, with logic-as-representation. Now, what is the other side, the (ab)surd buttle, the noumeons, the reality itself? Something that may be understood without having passed the filtration by experience, cognizing incognizibility. Which is a paradoxon. But, having eaten from the tree of knowledge, we have to live with this paradoxon, must follow the white rabbit, accept the (ab)surd, we have no other choice. I think, Camus has written a lot about the absurd, and our Sisyphos- like fate. But I think, it is a challenge, and a gift rather than a curse. A challenge keeps me alive, reaching the goal would kill me. I would not know, what I would want to do with the truth, if I would have gotten it. I am happy, that the truth is an asymptote, something that is worth of pursueing it, knowing I never will get to it. Sounds disgustingly like advice literature, i know, but I don´t have a better idea.
Best, Helmut
5. September 2025 um 17:00
wrote:Perhaps I should apologize for the link I am about to post here, since it may be interpreted by some as a comment on the dialogue between the two main participants in this thread. It was written several years ago, so it is definitely not a response to what has been said in this thread. It does, however, throw some light on the relationship between reality and language, which I take to be an underlying subject of it.
https://gnusystems.ca/TS/snc.htm#srd
Love, gary
Coming from the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg
} What's good for the gorse is a goad for the garden. [Finnegans Wake, 450] {
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