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Note to self
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It may be useful to enter
the following summary to the Word document used in preparing the presentation
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The intent in using the
label ‘contribution’
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Although it is felt (I feel)
that there are contributions in these areas, I submit them for general
consideration as actual contributions
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A sample of contributions
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Intuition and Metaphysics
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The primary conclusion is a
modification of Kant’s ideas. I did not start with Kant and though Kant has
been a strong occasional source of inspiration it was with surprise that I
realized the relation between the most recent rendering of my thought and that
of Kant
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•The present concept of Intuition is an extension of Kant’s. Here,
essentially all knowledge is possible via Intuition which covers all
perception and reason
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•The perception side goes ‘below’ Kant’s treatment of perception. Kant
thought that the intuition of space, time and cause was the intuition of a
perfect Object; modern geometries and physics show this as approximation. We
go ‘below’ Kant to the perfect Intuitive perception of the necessary Objects
such as ‘being,’ ‘all being,’ ‘part,’ and ‘absence of being’
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•The conception side goes beyond Kant’s treatment. Kant saw Reason as a
perfect superstructure built upon his notion of intuition. We know, now, that
the logics are empirical. Of course not everyone (including the experts)
‘knows’ this but some have recognized it and its truth has been here
demonstrated with details at http://www.horizons-2000.org. It has emerged
from the fundamental principle that a non-trivial non-empty ideal logic
(Logic) provides the superstructure from which follows the ultimate Universal
metaphysics
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Metaphysics and Logic
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The essential conclusion is
the identity of Logic and Metaphysics. It is this identity that permits the
development of the Metaphysics, the elimination of substance, and the
ultimate and very finite depth of the metaphysics and the ultimate though
implicit (i.e. open adventure) breadth of the Universal metaphysics
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Theory of Objects
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The essential conclusions
are
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•The Object is the fundamental concept of the metaphysics; entities,
processes, relationships, properties and universals, and the ‘abstract
objects’ such as the mathematical and the aesthetic objects are Objects;
Logic has reference and its reference is the Universe; in this sense Logic
may be seen as an Object
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•There is no categorial distinction between the particular and the
abstract Objects. There is an apparent distinction based on incomplete
understanding. However, all the Objects that we know via concepts are the
actual referents of the concepts and there is no essential distinction of
kind. The distinction of abstract versus particular is according to whether
the object is most conveniently studied in terms of reason or perception
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Cosmology
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The essential conclusion
concerns the kinds and the immense variety that fall under ‘Object.’ See
slides and notes on Cosmology for details
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Also see the slides on
Cosmological variety
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Human being
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The essential conclusions
concern (1) the Normal nature of human being which is sketched in this
presentation, (2) the possibilities of human being which are limited only by
Logic… seeing this requires the development of the concept of Identity, (3)
the nature of the bridging between what we regard as Normal and the possible
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Refer to essays at
http://www.horizons-2000.org for a detailed study of the Normal nature of
human being
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Intuition, Metaphysics, Logic,
Theory of Objects, and Cosmology