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Proposition #1: Signs (The Crisis of Concept)
If the world is everything
Our Systems (must be maintained)
If the object in question
correlates expression to content
This Program (must be maintained)
If the signs can Influence action
These Procedures (must be maintained)
By knowing what we know
Which assumes we know something more
This Alignment (must be maintained)
Through implemented inference
And shaping interpretations
This Mission (must be maintained)
If asked and you can tell me the time
I can ascertain your level of training
These Policies, Values and Beliefs (must be maintained)
To describe the state of the world
In terms and organization
Based on Allocation
This story (must be maintained)
So everything can remain the same
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Proposition #2: Dictionary v. Encyclopedia (Signs and symbols - use or interpretation?)
The Experts
Who use equations
define what is known
Defend their knowledge
Through transformation
Of information
Through indication
And designation
Connexions
In this system
Defines a range of truth
My interpretations
And explanations
Are shaped
by their tools
Our power lies in the ability to name our experience
Once something is named, and awareness achieved
We can truly see
To have our experience
be codified and classified for us
Diminishes our knowledge
Our power
And wonder
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Proposition #3: Metaphor
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Proposition #3: Metaphor (Sign Systems - logical picture of facts is a thought)
If Existence
And Experience
Is explained
through metaphor
Can This moment
Be described with logic
let alone words
when we speak
Through metaphor
We are lying
because that thought
is not literal
And What you
are asserting
is pretend
What is said
carries connotations
And what we perceive
becomes the definitions
interpretations
explain
The reactions
to what
we encounter
In the course
of our lives
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Counter Argument #1
02:47
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Proposition #4: Symbol
01:54
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Proposition #4: Symbols (A thought is a proposition with a sense)
To be both
everything and nothing
To be Two halves
of the same thing
Whose distinctions can only be shown
By what is in the here and now
In the Econo Expressions of my heart and mind
understanding comes with conditions
And is sign signified
For the symbols to become a fact
I Must possess to express
The Signs that are my words
The Pictures That form my fiction
Are constructed from what can be said
Language is an instrument of perception,
not only of description.
You see only what you have words for.
when we choose to participate
in our shared delusion,
and conclusions become difficult
to question.
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Proposition #5: Code
02:26
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Proposition #5: Code (A proposition as a truth-function)
Some may think
limits must be set
To what can be thought
And not be thought
Methods mean to alleviate confusion,
It’s logic justifies rules.
an argument becomes valid,
When it’s conclusion are clear
When one truth
follows other
Structures are formed
These expressions
And strengthen the relation
And justify what is
already understood
Any thought
outside this relation
is considered
to have no sense at all
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Proposition #6: Isotopy
02:53
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Proposition 6: Isotopy (The general form of a truth function)
What lies between
thought and expression
What comes from the fragments
That form my words
What constructs the filaments
That binds my mind through
Subatomic interactions
reflective negations
My statements are reflections
Of Man made conditions
Connected to a knowledge
And delivered by a language
That cannot supply meaning
only reflect the world
These limits of my language
Are defined by what can
and cannot be said.
I am senseless
and my language
must be destroyed
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Proposition #7: Mirrors
02:30
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Proposition 7: Mirrors (When one cannot speak, one must be silent)
For language
To describe the world
With meaning
is impossible
Meaning itself
requires that something
Has to be said
this paradox
Lies in the distinction
between saying and showing
What truth can be communicated
the preface
and propositions
The equations
All meant to explain
Can be ambiguous
both true and nonsensical
At the same time
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Counter Argument #2
01:47
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