concept: unsayable
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Definition
A core set of meaningful, interdependent, and undefinable terms in a metaphysical, meta-vocabulary. Subjectivity detects patterns of isolates, aggregates, and voids in time and space.
!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^cec2ae
We don't take these as perennial, necessary or absolute. We find that a simpler set will lead us into all sorts of quandaries. Axiomatic language as seeing what follows if we take these notions as primitive.
These are the categories that Kant was trying to find. This is the conceptual scheme of Donald Davidson. The subject sees the world as patterns of isolate, aggregate, and void in time and space.
The attempt to articulate the ineffable often devolves into objectification, occultation, and oubliation. One goal of edification is to foster the ability to sense when an articulation has gone off the tracks.
This set of terms is an interdependent closure set. Each term only becomes meaningful through the others. That aligns with structuralist and phenomenological approaches.
We are intentionally mixing terms normally separated: structural conditions (time, space, pattern), mereological/logical poles (isolate vs aggregate), negation (void), perspective (subjectivity)
Void is ” as co-primitive with “pattern” is powerful—it builds negation and absence in from the start (often missing in cognitive science).
- “Isolate/aggregate” gives you a built-in way to talk about **objecthood vs generality** without committing to realism vs nominalism.
Pure concepts of the understanding. That is, the metaphysical preconditions that make objects of experience possible.
The categories are closer to Kant's "a priori forms of judgement". But here we have divided them into two levels magisteria and categories.
Molecularity is the Badinagean term for analysis into parts and whole. Analysis, atomism, materialism are varieties of molecularity.
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- apophatic theology