concept: ego toss
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Definition
An oblique look at the notion of transcendence. The parameterization of the subject, and the conjecture of a vantage point that is not mine. S knows that P. The epistemological subject as the view from nowhere, the view from everywhere, the view from each. The parameterized view.
alpha-omega-iota. The alpha view is the moment of creation, deterministic setting in place of the ENTIRETY. The omega view is the teleological lure at the end of time. The final judgement. The iota view is the view in the recursive, historical moment of indexing.
Note how Plato's Cave, Brain in a Vat, world as simulation are ego toss puzzles. They assume an asymmetric disjunctive boundary that can be crossed by ego toss, but not by ostensive language. That is a Swedenborgian boundary between evidential worlds.
- [ ] #Cite _Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge_, Adrian Haddock (ed.), Fiona Macpherson (ed.) article by John McDowell, The disjunctive conception of experience as material for a transcendental argument
The catapult of Plato versus the trebuchet of Descartes. The ego toss across the abyss of taraxia.
The mind-independent world is a mind-dependent conjecture. To imagine the content of a thought as a situation in external reality requires the notion of transcendence, the ego toss.
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