concept: Socratic Miscarriage
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Definition
The invention of philosophy.
- [ ] #Cite Socrates discussing his mother as a midwife, and how he is a midwife.
The idea that language has the power to undermine its foundation in sentience and sociality. The invention of certainty and scepticism. The disregarding of corroboration. Invention of ontology, epistemology, and ethics.
The failure to allow suspensional notions. The idea that every word must have a definition, and that if you can't define it you can't use it. Knowledge, Consciousness, Existence, Reality, Truth, Materiality. To be engaged. Folk philosophy.
The notion that colloquial philosophical notions like existence, truth, and justice need to be defined. The notion that such a definition will lead us to knowledge and wisdom--it only leads to aporia, that is, confusion.
It is an error to use the same meaning of exist, true, knowledge across the linguistic domains of suspension, ostension, and transcendence.
Scepticism is the claim that the EGO is *not* grounded in sentient and sapient practice.
!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^b5f0a4
See Peirce, C.P. 5.265 "We cannot begin with true doubt". "Let us not begin to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts".
- [ ] #Cite compare to Thomas Reid on Common Sense
The introduction of the Myth of the Proven. The antinomies of Universality, especially Absolute Description
!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^f9c048
If a term is suspensional it cannot be defined. It is an attempt at meta-language. To state--in language--the preconditions of ostensive language.
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