Seldon Speaks: Natural-Historical Periodization.

Full Title -- Seldon Speaks:  Immanent, Ontological Historical Periodization.

Dear Reader,

It has been my pleasure to share with you, from time to time, seminal selections from the sayings, shared by him among we of F.E.D., by F.E.D.’s co-founder, Karl Seldon. 

Today, once again, I have the opportunity to share with you a succinct assertion, by him, of a key principle of the F.E.D. model-building practice: ‘Immanent Periodization’ --

“The periodization of nature, of natural history, of the dialectic of nature, should be ontological, if it is to be non-arbitrary; if it is to converge upon reconstructive-empirical objectivity.”

“A new epoch, for a dyadic ‘meta-model’, should be defined as beginning with the beginning in existence -- with the widespread irruption into existence -- of a next ‘self-hybrid’ [‘self-meta-monad-ized’] onto [ontological category] of a next ‘neo-meta-«arithmos»’.”

That epoch should end only with the ‘‘‘real subsumption’’’ of portions of essentially all previously-irrupted ontos still in existence, by that latest ‘self-hybrid’ onto, and after the irruption, by ‘self-subsumption’ of that latest, ‘meta-meristemal’, ‘self-hybrid’ onto, of a yet newer/’nexter’/latest ‘meta-meristemal’, ‘self-hybrid’ onto, commencing the ‘‘‘formal subsumption’’’ , by that latest onto, of all previously-irrupted ontos [that have continued in existence] -- including of the most recent formerly ‘meta-meristemal, ‘self-hybrid’ onto, that this latest ‘self-hybrid’ onto has just superseded.”

Regards,

Miguel