Eodnhoj7 wrote:
View it this way...you know why wittgenstein's tractus was considered deep? Because is was pure bullshit and he knew it was bullshit...that is what he pointed to, the number/symbols are not right because they are not even wrong, they are just empty contexts. ...
Where does 'right' or 'wrong' come into the TLP?
There are no numbers in the TLP, other than the headings.
As far as I can tell Wittgenstein was trying to describe the logical form of Symbolism, trying to outline what criteria a perfectly logical language of Symbols would need. As such he said or not said many things in the TLP and one of them was that Propositional Logic draws the boundaries of what can be said or thought about things or states of affairs with the Tautologies being what is necessary, the Contradictions being what is impossible and the rest being the Contingents which have to be proved by some other means than Logic. He also said this, "“The complex sign 'aRb' says 'a stands in relation R to b;'” but we must say, “That 'a' stands in a certain relation to 'b' says that aRb.”, you appear to confuse this?
I mean look at it this way, we get numbers through counting.
We count material objects.
Those material objects are made of atoms. ...
Are there 'Atoms'? I thought them just a model.
Those atoms are 99.999... percent empty. ...
Your Physics model is well out-of-date, the 'empty space' is full.
The non empty part? ...
In your out-of-date model the non empty part is composed of protons, neutrons and electrons.
No one knows because then they would have to say it was just "form"...and we are stuck with a holographic universe the platonists and Hindus and Christian's have been saying for millenia. Experimentation to prove a holographic universe is in itself a holograph... ...
And yet this is a theory out that provides a falsifiable experiment that would test if its all a holograph or not.
Even the book of 24 philosophers observes God as a sphere encapsulating nothing through pure opposition of nothing (void..voiding voiding) as being......
So what?
How does that differ from a basic empty atom as a sphere? ...
Well out of date.
The particular is a general and the general is a particular. "As above so below". Even the munchausseen trillema observes our rationality as a form of an empty circle. And the Buddhists use this empty circle as a symbol for enlightenment. ...
Again, so what? Or are you now saying that intersubjective agreement is 'truth'?
See the empty context repeating itself yet as an empty context?
Nope, in truth the phrase 'empty context' seems a contradiction in terms to me so always false.
We are literally dividing empty space into forms when we count, and these number themselves are empty contexts. ...
In my world when we count we are matching objects.
Even the line itself, the foundation of all form strictly as a movement from point a to point B, is composed of infinite lines and those are composed of infinite lines... ...
Not in the real world they aren't.
So when you quantify a line (or line segment) as 1 ...
What do you mean here?
your are quantifying and infinity and infinity is indefinite. ...
I'll wait for the above answer.
1 is both odd and even and is indefinite. ...
How we treat 1 has changed over time but by and large 1 is an odd number and it's definitely not an even one and it's impossible for it to be both at the same time.
In quantifying a form as 1, by default, your are observing one infinity. It is a paradox and math cannot deal with paradoxes because it necessitates that math has not foundations but empty assumptions. ...
I'd have thought that philosophically the foundations of Mathematics were cut away a long-time back and it seems to have made no difference to the application of Mathematics? I'd also have thought that it is paradoxes that Mathematics thrives upon?
Math is empty context and so is logic. ...
You cant have an 'empty context'.
Take for example the beginning of the Assumptive Logic thread, it mapped out some transitive states where one symbol went to another symbol. These transitive states are subject to themselves and eachother thus are generalities within generalites... you want a particular? How can you without making a new generality? ...
It's a bit of a big ask calling what you posted there a Logic.
So each symbol, as a generality, is a transitive state composed of other transitive states as transitive states. So if I deduce reality to some unbreakable point...I get a point that underlies everything.
You cannot continual deduce without ending back in a generality again.
It effectively is both meaningful as ever presently repeated and meaningless as it is nothing itself as it is formless by nature.
So assuming reality is the most general case for existence and when broken down we are left with assumption again.
It is the paradox of one (generality) and many (particulars as generalities) with this loop being an empty circle. ...
Or you could just say there are 'Monads' or 'Atomic Propositions' a la Lebiniz and Wittgenstein or 'Atoms' like the Greeks, etc, etc. Either way I think Kant right and you are trying to talk about the Noumena so any old model can be believed so it could all just be a 'God' or fairies, demons and pixie dust, what counts is how useful they are in accounting for how phenomena work and so far 'Science' appears to be the best of the lot in this respect.
Math and logic are just a means of pulling a rabbit out of a hat when reality a hat was pulled off a rabbit. ...
Or in reality we have no idea if its rabbits or turtles all the way down.
That is why you do not understand, nor does wtf...there is "no-thing" to understand considering to understand is to assume and all assumptions are void. ...
Is this an absolute assumption? But it looks like we agree that the Noumena is not knowable but you forget Phenomena.
Ta-da!....Magic....
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.