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|  dolf to dolf  |
|  Re: DOLF eats hagelslag (10/21)  |
|  03 Jul 25 18:37:51  |
 [continued from previous message] >>>> By conveying the DUALISTIC GENDERED AND FLUID ASPECT OF AUTONOMY >>>> with our #174 - COEFFICIENT (median) PARADIGM we are challenging >>>> entrenched dogmatic assumptions. >>>> >>>> Thus this DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM FUSION STASIS as #174 - CYBERNETIC >>>> SYSTEM / ANTHROPOMORPHIC PRINCIPLE which is the self focus of #273 >>>> - SYNCRETIC PROGRESSION (#208 - EVALUATE / EXPRESS + #65 - INNER >>>> (內)) is also a vEVENT grounding relative to temporality which is >>>> requisite for consciousness--appreciate I am making quite the >>>> statement as postulate for further informal research. >>>> >>>> #67 #54 #47 >>>> #70 #68 #48 >>>> #03 #05 #07 >>>> >>>> #1092 = [#364 - ENQUIRY, #312 - CONTRADICTION, #416 (#405 + #9 - >>>> BRANCHING OUT) - ORTHOLOGY: #143 - ONTIC GROUNDING + #273 - >>>> SYNCRETIC PROGRESSION (#208 - EVALUATE / EXPRESS + #65 - INNER (內))] >>>> >>>> IMMANUEL KANT PROLEGOMENA (1783) COMMENTARY ON SECTION #53 - >>>> INCREASING EVIDENCE, GAINING INSIGHT; I-CHING: H13 - FELLOWSHIP, >>>> COMPANIONSHIP, CONCORDING PEOPLE, FELLOWSHIP WITH MEN, GATHERING >>>> MEN; TETRA: 53 - ETERNITY (YUNG) AS MARGIN IDEA #343 = #207 - rèn >>>> (軔): *TO* *BRAKE* + #136 - zhāo (昭): *DISPLAY CLEARLY* / *SUN'S* >>>> *BRIGHTNESS*: "In the first (mathematical) class of antinomy, the >>>> falsity of the presupposition consisted in the following: that >>>> something self- contradictory (namely, appearance as a thing in >>>> itself) (eg: #136 - yán (顔): FACIAL APPEARANCE / [#60, #76] | #207 >>>> - qù (去): TO ABANDON; TO GIVE UP / [#31, #45, #65, #66]) would be >>>> represented as being unifiable in a concept. But regarding the >>>> second, namely the dynamical, class of antinomy, the falsity of the >>>> presupposition consists in this: that something that is unifiable is >>>> represented as contradictory; consequently, while in the first case >>>> both of the mutually opposing assertions were false, here on the >>>> contrary the assertions, which are set in opposition to one another >>>> through mere misunderstanding, can both be true. >>>> >>>> Specifically, mathematical combination necessarily presupposes the >>>> homogeneity of the things combined (in the concept of magnitude), >>>> but dynamical connection does not require this at all. If it is a >>>> question of the magnitude of something extended, all parts must be >>>> homogeneous among themselves and with the whole; in contrast, in the >>>> connection of cause and effect homogeneity can indeed be found, but >>>> is not necessary; for the concept of causality (whereby through one >>>> thing, something completely different from it is posited) at least >>>> does not require it. >>>> >>>> If the objects of the sensible world were taken for things in >>>> themselves, and the previously stated natural laws for laws of >>>> things in themselves, contradiction would be inevitable. In the same >>>> way, if the subject of freedom were represented, like the other >>>> objects, as a mere appearance, contradiction could again not be >>>> avoided, for the same thing would be simultaneously affirmed and >>>> denied of the same object in the same sense. But if natural >>>> necessity is referred only to appearances and freedom only to things >>>> in themselves, then no contradiction arises if both kinds of >>>> causality are assumed or conceded equally, however difficult or >>>> impossible it may be to make causality of the latter kind conceivable. >>>> >>>> Within appearance, every effect is an event, or something that >>>> happens in time; the effect must, in accordance with the universal >>>> law of nature, be preceded by a determination of the causality of >>>> its cause (a state of the cause), from which the effect follows in >>>> accordance with a constant law. But this determination of the cause >>>> to causality must also be something that occurs or takes place; the >>>> cause must have begun to act, for otherwise no sequence in time >>>> could be thought between it and the effect. [IDEA #344] Both the >>>> effect and the causality of the cause would have always existed. >>>> Therefore the determination of the cause to act must also have >>>> arisen among the appearances, and so it must, like its effect, be an >>>> event, which again must have its cause, and so on, and hence natural >>>> necessity must be the condition in accordance with which efficient >>>> causes are determined. Should, by contrast, freedom be a property of >>>> certain causes of appearances, then that freedom must, in relation >>>> to the appearances as events, be a faculty of starting those events >>>> from itself (sponte - spontaneous), i.e., without the causality of >>>> the cause itself having to begin, and hence without need for any >>>> other ground to determine its beginning. But then the cause, as to >>>> its causality, would not have to be subject to temporal >>>> determinations of its state, i.e., would not have to be appearance >>>> at all, i.e., would have to be taken for a thing in itself, and only >>>> the effects would have to be taken for appearances. >>>> >>>> NOTE: The idea of freedom has its place solely in the relation of >>>> the *INTELLECTUAL* (des Intellektuellen), as cause, to the >>>> appearance, as effect. Therefore we cannot bestow freedom upon >>>> matter, in consideration of the unceasing activity by which it fills >>>> its space, even though this activity occurs through an inner >>>> principle. We can just as little find any concept of freedom to fit >>>> a purely intelligible being, e.g., God, insofar as his action is >>>> immanent. For his action, although independent of causes determining >>>> it from outside, nevertheless is determined in his eternal reason, >>>> hence in the divine nature. Only if something should begin through >>>> an action, hence the effect be found in the time series, and so in >>>> the sensible world (e.g., the beginning of the world), does the >>>> question arise of whether the causality of the cause must itself >>>> also have a beginning, or whether the cause can originate an effect >>>> without its causality itself having a beginning. In the first case >>>> the concept of this causality is a concept of natural necessity, in >>>> the second of freedom. From this the reader will see that, since I >>>> have explained freedom as the faculty to begin an event by oneself, >>>> I have exactly hit that concept which is the problem of metaphysics. >>>> >>>> If this sort of influence of intelligible beings on appearances can >>>> be thought without contradiction, then natural necessity will indeed >>>> attach to every connection of cause and effect in the sensible >>>> world, and yet that cause which is itself not an appearance (though >>>> it underlies appearance) will still be entitled to freedom, and >>>> therefore nature and freedom will be attributable without >>>> contradiction to the very same thing, but in different respects, in >>>> the one case as appearance, in the other as a thing in itself. We >>>> have in us a faculty that not only stands in connection with its >>>> subjectively determining grounds, which are the natural causes of >>>> its [IDEA #345] actions – and thus far is the faculty of a being >>>> which itself belongs to appearances – but that also is related to >>>> objective grounds that are mere ideas, insofar as these ideas can [continued in next message] --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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