Structure Constitutes More Than Its Elements
Structure's Boundary Conditions—Wholeness, Transformation, Self-RegulationPiaget began his inquiries into structuralism by first isolating what was commonto all structuralist thought. Number one on his...
View ArticleFoundational Crisis In Mathematics
Between Syntax And ArithmeticGödel’s Incompleteness Theorem-Reciprocal MovementDivergencies, convergencies and, at times, insurmountable paradox, has marked the history of mathematics. A major...
View ArticleWhen The Foundation Of Mathematics Is Based On Indeterminate Numbers
Between Content And Form, Between Assimilation And Accommodation Are The Polar Phases Of The Total Life Process—And Reciprocal Movement There are a number of important consequences that follow from...
View ArticleMind Is An Extension Of Natural Structure For Piaget
The Developmental Stages Of ChildrenThe Accommodation/Assimilation Process Allows For The Intelligent Navigation Of Our EnvironmentFrom his experiments and observations with children, Piaget identified...
View ArticleSelf—Continual Assimilation Of Structures Restructuring
Piaget's Self Is Located In The Interdependence Of The Activity OfContent/Form—Reciprocal MovementThe locus of the "constructionist self " is called by Piaget the center offunctional activity. The...
View ArticleFoucault/Knowledge/Power
Western Man's Knowledge Is A Product Of Endless Interaction Between Desire AndPowerThe Individual, For Foucault, Is A "Cultural Ensemble" Where All Thought AndPractice Become Mere Contingencies Of The...
View ArticleFoucault’s The Power/Knowledge Subjugation Of Discourse
Power And Knowledge, In Foucault's Structuralism, Directly Imply One AnotherWe come to the crux of Foucault' analysis of the episteme when we ask thequestion, "Who does discourse serve? Epistemes, for...
View ArticleClassical Episteme—No Place To Engage “Search For Man”
The Breakup Of A Universe Of Purpose And OrderIf Foucault’s reconstituted structuralism sounds pessimistic or even nihilistic, I have succeeded in accurately describing his thought, for Foucault is...
View ArticleModern Episteme—The Being In Whose Being Comes Into Question
From The Perspective Of The Human Spirit's Pursuit Of Liberation Things LookDifferentIn the modern episteme difference asserts its right against sameness in truth.In so far as everything is seen to be...
View ArticleThe Human Spirit’s Pursuit Of Self-Liberation
"Meaning becomes the moving force of self-transcendence, which reaches beyondthe limited horizon and longs for the whole." (Erich Jantsch, The Self-Organizing Universe)If universal structure is...
View ArticleNature Objectified—The Nature Of Both "Inner And Outer Reality”
The Human Spirit’s Pursuit Of Liberation ContinuedErnst Cassirer tells us that Pre-moderns, as they engaged their environment throughemotions, desires and work, acquired the ability, via symbolic...
View ArticleReciprocal Movement—The Carrier Of Symbol-Generating Free Thought
The Human Spirit’s Pursuit Of Liberation ContinuedIdentifying Sartre's philosophy as structuralism is, I am aware, pushing the envelope. However, an authority on structuralism has proposed this option...
View ArticleThe Why Questions—Why We Can’t Live Without Them
The Difference Between Deep and Surface Structure In his introductory chapter on structuralism Michael Lane informs us:"Probably the most distinctive feature of the structuralist method is theemphasis...
View ArticleFrom The Big Bang To The Present
The Embedded Logic Of Reciprocal Movement's Synchronic Axis“It is shown that both in relativity theory and quantum theory, notions implyingthe undivided wholeness of the universe would provide a much...
View ArticleThe Freedom That Birth’s Civilization
The Embedded Logic Of Reciprocal Movement's Synchronic Structure ConcludedPictures always help simplify what is difficult to comprehend, so withsimplification in mind, I present the following pictured...
View ArticleParticipatory Moment Of A Conscious Self
Products Of Time Of Mind—Revolutions Around The Sun, Vibrations Of Atoms, Biological Clock DecayThere you have it; my pictured description of the V shape/structure. Whatfollows now, is commentary on...
View ArticleFuzzy Quantum World—Explanation
At The Depths Of The "Material World" There Exists A Fuzzy World That Exhibits Behavior Only When We Observe ItEveryday, via our five senses, inquiry, analysis, conscience, and imagination, we...
View ArticleThere Is Something Deficient In Our Idea Of Time
Three Levels Of TimeOff hand, I can think of two real world areas of relevance that the synchronicstructure of freedom speaks directly too. One is far removed from normal experience,i.e., quantum...
View ArticleThe Synchronic Structure Of Time
There Is Something Deficient In Our Idea Of Time ContinuesTime, As Such, Doesn't Exist, But As A Utilitarian Experience, What We Do WithTime, Ends Up In That Familiar Experience We Call...
View ArticleTime Of Mind—Concept In Need Of Explanation And A Home
There Is Something Deficient In Our Idea Of Time ConcludedWhy Relativity Theory And Quantum Mechanics Are Irreconcilable Scientific TheoriesDiscontinuity occurring in continuity (~bb) not only permits...
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