Law of Identity
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 6:33 pm
If one is educated, they know that there are two, and only two types of identity, which have a number of name pairs such as:
Arithmetic and Geometric
Literal and Metaphorical
Particular and Universal
Perceptible and Intelligible
The one and the many.
Noun and Verb
correlative and relative
form and material difference
etc.
This comes about because every thing is defined as a combination of these two types of identity. This definition equates a Noun with a particular pairing of (noun and Verb), i.e., say Tom is a cat. Tom is a noun, a is an indefinite noun, while cat is a relative difference or verb. At least this is one would expect given the above in a Grammar Book.
So, one should suspect, that our ability to name any thing, via perception means that we can abstract one or the other of this pair using our bodies senses, i.e., a sense can abstract either a relative differ a things shape or a things material difference. For, as well examined, no sense can abstract the thing in of itself, or the ding an sich.
We can only name, these two elements, as Plato noted. This does not mean we cannot qualify any such name which makes people mistakenly claim that there are more than two parts of speech. Thus, there is only Dialectic, or speech in accordance with the two elements of a thing, or what is today called binary recursion.
Now, everyone should use this fact, this simply fundamental of grammar, to examine everything, especially their education. How is it that today, school textbooks are full of contradicting this obvious, provable fact?
How is it, that so called educated people not only contradict it, by insist that it be contradicted?
How is it, that our educational systems are insisting on producing illiterate people?
How is it, that people being habitualized into being schizophrenic are not helped first and formost, by so called educators, stopping the practice of producing them?
So, when it comes to criticizing anyone, anything, do not forget another pair of names for our binary identity, Assertion and Denial. For, as a wise man once advised, Let he among you who has not sinned, cast the first stone, as, it is also written, that Truth is the only Rock.
The test of the educated is the ability to use the simple law of Identity, in its various word pairs. If one cannot do this, one should not claim to have been educated, in all or in some.
One might have noticed, that of all the works which try to teach the Law of identity, Aristotle is one who clearly stated, that if you cannot master it, you cannot think any better than a vegetable. But there is one other work which makes an even harsher statement; and it is between the word pair, the living and the dead, which implies, that even though you are dead, you can be resurrected, not by magic, but by learning how to do the work you were made to do.
Arithmetic and Geometric
Literal and Metaphorical
Particular and Universal
Perceptible and Intelligible
The one and the many.
Noun and Verb
correlative and relative
form and material difference
etc.
This comes about because every thing is defined as a combination of these two types of identity. This definition equates a Noun with a particular pairing of (noun and Verb), i.e., say Tom is a cat. Tom is a noun, a is an indefinite noun, while cat is a relative difference or verb. At least this is one would expect given the above in a Grammar Book.
So, one should suspect, that our ability to name any thing, via perception means that we can abstract one or the other of this pair using our bodies senses, i.e., a sense can abstract either a relative differ a things shape or a things material difference. For, as well examined, no sense can abstract the thing in of itself, or the ding an sich.
We can only name, these two elements, as Plato noted. This does not mean we cannot qualify any such name which makes people mistakenly claim that there are more than two parts of speech. Thus, there is only Dialectic, or speech in accordance with the two elements of a thing, or what is today called binary recursion.
Now, everyone should use this fact, this simply fundamental of grammar, to examine everything, especially their education. How is it that today, school textbooks are full of contradicting this obvious, provable fact?
How is it, that so called educated people not only contradict it, by insist that it be contradicted?
How is it, that our educational systems are insisting on producing illiterate people?
How is it, that people being habitualized into being schizophrenic are not helped first and formost, by so called educators, stopping the practice of producing them?
So, when it comes to criticizing anyone, anything, do not forget another pair of names for our binary identity, Assertion and Denial. For, as a wise man once advised, Let he among you who has not sinned, cast the first stone, as, it is also written, that Truth is the only Rock.
The test of the educated is the ability to use the simple law of Identity, in its various word pairs. If one cannot do this, one should not claim to have been educated, in all or in some.
One might have noticed, that of all the works which try to teach the Law of identity, Aristotle is one who clearly stated, that if you cannot master it, you cannot think any better than a vegetable. But there is one other work which makes an even harsher statement; and it is between the word pair, the living and the dead, which implies, that even though you are dead, you can be resurrected, not by magic, but by learning how to do the work you were made to do.