Part 09: Seldon on Dialectical Method Series. ‘Dynamical «Arithmoi»' and the ‘Intra-Dynamicity’ of that which Dialectical Ontological Category-Symbols Symbolize.

 

 

 

Part 09: Seldon on Dialectical Method Series.

 

 

‘Dynamical «Arithmoi»’

and the ‘Intra-Dynamicity’

of that which Dialectical Ontological Category-Symbols Symbolize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, Encyclopedia Dialectica insights into key concepts of Seldonian Theory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The statement posted below describes the dynamical character of the ontological categories symbolized in historical-dialectical category-symbols progressions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon –

 

“In a historical-dialectical categorial progression [meta-]model of a given ontological Domain, just because the same category symbols repeatedly re-occur, ‘evolutely’, in each modeled historical epoch after the epoch in which they first irrupted, it should not be thought that the ontological categories represented by these category-symbols are statical.”

 

“On the contrary, they are dynamical.”

 

“In general, historical-dialectical ontological categories – ‘ontological «arithmoi»’ – continue to evolve past the epoch in which they initially appear.  They do so quantitatively, of course – the population-counts of like-kind «monads» to which the category-symbols refer continue to change.  But they also change qualitatively, perhaps some of their species and sub-species of «monads» going extinct, but also perhaps new species and sub-species of their «genos»-kind of «monads» newly arising, in different successive epochs.”

 

“Such ontic categories are not just “numbers” – «arithmoi», in the ancient sense: they are ‘dynamical numbers’.”

 

“They are “fluents” [“flowing quantities”], as Newton might have called them.  But they are also ‘flowing qualities’ – ‘onto-rheids’.”

 

“Consider, for example the category m of our, ‘Dialectic of Nature’, ‘Cosmos Meta-Model’.  In that meta-model’s cosmological 3^rd ‘cosmo-historical epoch’ --

_"t₂ = 2

-- that category-symbol, m, refers principally to the distribution of molecules in the intra-galactic “molecular clouds” that then pervaded our cosmos [and still do].  By its fourth epoch –

_"t₂ = 3

-- after sufficient “metallization” of these “clouds”, etc., i.e., by the accumulation of sufficient quantities and kinds of higher atomic species, well beyond Hydrogen and Helium, via “stellar nucleosynthesis” and via the contributions of “supernovae”, etc., the meaning of this symbol includes the ‘qualo-quantitatively expanded’ molecular species content of the “proto-planetary discs”, and of the planets, that could, only then and thereby, begin to arise.”

 

“Thus, a more adequate symbolization for, e.g., the ‘cosmo-ontological’ category of molecules – one that would do justice to the epochally-dynamical meaning of that symbol, would be:

m(_"t₂).”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, and for free-of-charge download of Seldonian books, essays, images, and other texts, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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