Part 01: Seldon Presents Series -- The Elision of External Causes in our ‘First Arithmetic Dialectical Meta-Models’.

Part 01:  Seldon Presents Series -- The Elision of External Causes in our ‘First Arithmetic Dialectical Meta-Models’.

Dear Reader,

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, to share with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, key excerpts from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The first such release in this new such series is entered below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

For more information regarding, and for [further] instantiations of, these Seldonian insights, see --

www.dialectics.info

http://www.dialectics.info/dialectics/Applications.html

ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

“... Our dialectical ideographies are primarily about capturing and mapping ‘‘‘internal causes’’’ -- ‘immanent causes’; ‘self-forces’. ...”

“Our Total Universe, Nature-History as Totality, Dialectic of Nature ‘Meta-Model’, in terms of any of the variants of it that we are presently considering, is not ‘defected’ by any elision of “external causes”, precisely because it is a whole-Universe ‘Meta-Model’.  That ‘‘‘whole-Universe’’’, per our conception and definition, has no ‘‘‘out side’’’, no ‘externity’, but is, instead, all-inclusive.”

“That is, it generates representations of the ‘sub-cumula’ of other categories whose units or «monads» may constitute ‘‘‘external causes’’’ and ‘‘‘environments’’’ in relation to any given single ontological category that it also generates, and in the correct epoch in which those “others” actually arise.”

“It does so from out of the same «arché» ontological category, and by means of the same ‘meta-genealogical’ process, that generates the given single ontological category representing those «monads» that may be ‘environmented’, and ‘‘‘externally’’’ impacted, by the «monads» represented by all of the other ontological categories that are extant in/during the given epoch of this ‘environmentation’ and of this ‘external impaction’.”

“However, for ‘dialectical meta-models’ that are confined to a given sub-universe and Domain that are less inclusive than our Universe as a Whole, this elision of environment(s)/‘“external”’ causes can be, and, typically, is, a major source of their ‘homeomorphic defect’ -- of the ‘‘‘qualitative residuals’’’ of such ‘dialectical meta-models’.”

“I have long held that the development of a “purely”-qualitative, “purely”-ontological dialectical ideography -- as well as of more advanced, ‘quanto-qualitative’ dialectical ideographies -- capable of systematically and comprehensively encompassing such relative ‘“environments”’ and relatively ‘‘‘external causes’’’, for any given sub-universe and/or Domain, that are sourced in (an) other sub-universe(s) and/or Domain(s) of our Total Universe, should be a priority objective of our research collective and of our research programme. ...”