After Thoughts

After thoughts are presented as links designated by superscripted notes: e.g., PS1.

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PS1:

At the time this book was written, there was no way to correct, or improve on what was already published. Since then, Someone created the Internet - special for us.

In the spirit of intellectual honesty, I thought it would be unfair for me to change what I wrote, and added this as 'sub-subtext', or postscripts, to clarify some clumsy formulations, or changes in my thinking, if the need should arise.

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PS2:

Conceptualizing anything, real or imaginary, necessarily implies that what is conceptualized has a "real" value, or an "imaginary" value which is the same as saying that it is valued as "real" or "non-real", or "virtual". To a "solipsist", all values might be "virtual". To a "materialist", all values might be "real" brain processes. To a dualist, it could have both values. It doesn't matter what values a conceptualized entity is considered to have, what matters is that it is valued.

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PS3:

This discussion can also be viewed as one evaluating the structure and function of language, and/or, of thinking: e.g., words are values and language relates words to man. So does thinking, from which values and language are derived.

The basic structure is:
Subject - Relationship - Object.

The presentation here is rather clumsy and it may be difficult to follow the train of thought through the torturous path that was taken. But that's the way it was 'thought through' in that context at the time. The underlying idea was to show that the three elements of the definition are not 'simple' single values but could be considered as complex variables, or functions: e.g.,

Subject . . . . Verb . . . . Object
Values . . . Relation . . . Man
F(V) . . . . . F(R) . . . . . F(M)
F(V)f(v) . . . . F(R)f(r) . . . . F(M)fm)
F(V)f(v)f(x) . . . F(R)f(r)f(y) . . . F(M)f(m)f(z)
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PS4:

What's not explicitly stated here is that the synthesis is based on a relationship between the two extremes, and that relationship considered as a causal one that can be reciprocal, requires that aspects of the two extremes are present simultaneously.

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