"On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas" -- a book by Giordano Bruno.

‘On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas’ -- a book by Giordano Bruno.

 

-- Part 04: Seldon’s Maths Series.

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., 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.

 

This 4th release of this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

In this 4th installment, Seldon reflects on a book by Giordano Bruno.  Its title sounds alluringly ‘‘‘Seldonian’’’ to me.  Its content might not be at all.  But its content mixes, if not unifies, various key Platonian and Aristotelian themes.  Seldon reflects upon that book in relation to our pathways to the discovery of the _NQ ‘first arithmetic for dialectic’, and ‘contra-Boolean algebra for dialectical logic’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon –

 

“Consider the English translation of a book by Giordano Bruno – On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas, who was ultimately a tragic victim of the, “Catholic”, ‘‘‘cancel culture’’’ of his time.”   

“We are, of course, all about ‘the compositions/-combinations/coalescences/resolutions/complex unifications of ideas [i.e., of categories, as well as [their] signs & images].”

 

“But I don’t think that Bruno invoked the “composition of … ideas” in quite our – ‘contra-Boolean’ -- way.”

 

“Much of what Bruno wrote in this book still remains incomprehensible to me, a fact which I hope will dissolve via further and deeper study.” 

“But, in this book, Bruno invokes the Platonian «Eide», their «species», etc., quite explicitly.” 

“He also invokes a word, translated into English by the word “place”, in a way that reminds of Aristotle’s Topics, or «Topoi» [“Places”], a major locus of Aristotle’s discussion of his views on «dialektikê».” 

 

“I think that Bruno was, in places therein, seeking some synthesis of Platon’s early doctrines, and of/with those of the later Aristotle.”

 

“Early on, before his turn to the ‘«auto-kinesis» ontology’, Platon assiduously pursued a kind of categorial doctrine, a doctrine of the [eternal] Categories or “Kinds” – Platon’s doctrine of the “Forms Dialectic”, i.e., of that the «Arithmoi Eidetikoi», involving «arithmoi» – “numbers” – of interconnected «IdeaV», in the ancient sense of number [«arithmos»], not in our modern sense.”

 

“However, as far as we can tell, Platon did not pursue an «arithmetikê» of his «Eide» – an ideo-graphical ‘arithmetic of/for dialectic’.”

 

“But we did.  We have pursued, and we continue to pursue, arithmetics – and algebras –of ‘contra-Boolean’ ‘‘‘classes’’’; of ‘modified-Hegelian’ ‘‘‘categories’’’.  We continue to seek ‘algebras of categories’, indeed, of dialectical, ontological categorial progressions, a la Hegel and Marx, as the key, core representations of the ontological-categorial content of the Domains of experience, and of the knowledges emerging from and flowing from the experiences – and from the experiments -- of humanity, within those Domains.”

 

“ We have done so starting with our explorations of the { _XQ } axioms-systems for the ordinal-qualities-based, ‘algorithmic-heuristic’ arithmetics and algebras for the ideographical and pictographical compact presentation of dialectical processes -- and of dialectical relations -- in general.”

 

“And we have done so while jettisoning the Platonian insistences on mysticism, on the [‘crypto-Parmenidean’] “eternality” and “immutability” of his «Eide» or «IdeaV»; of the actual, empirical, sensuous Kinds, and of the ‘intro-inspectable ideo-Kinds’ of human ‘ideo-ontology’, by relocating the «Eide» in the mutable, psychohistorically evolving and progressing «mentalités» of humanity, i.e., in the evolving -- and ‘meta-evolving’ – ‘Human Phenome’.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see --

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

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

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

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

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

 

 

 

 

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