The quotation "all men are created equal" is found in the United States Declaration of Independence and is a phrase that has come to be seen as emblematic of America's founding ideals. The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776.[1] It reads:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Wiki
Can you express the above in terms of First Principles?
First of all "All things are equal." by the definition of a thing, everything is equal to every other thing. So, how do we recursively use the word thing, in order to different other things?
If one is paying attention to either Plato or their computer, there are, two, and only two parts of speech, which means we have two and only two concepts to use in order to form grammar with, in order to think with. We have a relative, i.e. verb, and we have its correlatives, i.e. noun. You can, as Plato suggested, construct a visual paradigm of it using the analog grammar called Geometry as:
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A simple line. stop, go, stop, or everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end. i.e. again, binary. How do we use it to construct all thought? all judgments, similar to a computer, but with one major difference. We start with motivation, a relative difference called life, a computer is in animate and is not at all motivated to do anything just like a rock, that is where the myth of AI starts, as if one is so stupid as to not recognize the difference, whatever a computer does, originates with its programmer, not life.
As Plato pointed out, the relative differences are always a given, in grammar the only thing you do is to standardize how you parse the relative differences, i.e. limit or shape it. No grammar invents a relative difference, so all this bull shit about alternate realities is for the mentally lame.
We differentiate everything, by parsing. Thus, one can say that all four of our systems of grammar, i.e. our Grammar Matrix, Common Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry, only are concerned not with invention of relative differences, but to parse these givens in order to make useful things, things useful to aiding and abetting our life.
Many people think that "Our Creator" denotes something anthropomorphic, whereas, if one study Philebus, by Plato, it denotes the recognition that since there are two parts of speech, and they are used to reason with, this is our creator, the intelligible, information processing, that intelligence, by the definition of a thing, means that intelligence is just like any other given relative difference, it does not mean some particular member of that class, i.e., there is no particular member of the class which makes intelligence possible which defines the class of which it is a member, i.e. no particular Jolly Green Giant.
We are either smart enough to formalize our Grammar Matrix, such as is done using computers, or we are just another stupid animal.
So, all things are equal, we learn to parse things with names by either recognizing natural parsing, or by parsing to our purpose.
We are learning how to reshape, reparse, our environment in order to "Have life and have it more abundantly."
For such a form of life, Ground Zero, are as some Philosophers have noted, the construction, and education, based on correct comprehension and use of our Grammar Matrix.
No illiterate person, can be called a judge of anything. The four methods of using binary recursion, i.e. the four who stand around truth, Biblical Metaphor, make up the members of the class called a rational being.
So no, these original statements are not American Ideals, they are, as Biblically noted, as Confucius noted, as Plato noted, that Superior Animal, that mankind may survive to become.
