Form

Opinions on Form, or its digital conceptual aspect. Spatial Form is something else, and shall not be addressed.


Form is prior to considerations of mind, matter, self, world, right, wrong, etc. Form is not sensation, although sensation is interpreted via forms.
By "form" I mean something like concept, but concept misdirects us toward idealism.

This is why I couldn't figure out if numbers existed within Nature.

I knew we thought in terms of quantity. So I thought we projected quantity on nature.

But then it clicked for me that quantity is prior to all other thoughts. By quantity I mean unity. Plurality is just sub-unities gathered into a greater unity.

So number doesn't exist in the mind or in the nature but in both and in all of our concepts.
Conception is digital.
But digital conception is related to sensation and emotion, which are continuous.
This is why language is so slippery. This is why we need a Wittgenstein to steer us away from certain confusions.

Formal logic and mathematics stay as far away as possible from the complexity of language. This explains their beauty. They are made as digital as possible, so that their inferences are more persuasive.

But dialectic is required to explain the source of formal logic and mathematics. We must wrestle with the concept of concept, and the form of form.

To see that Form (concept) is prior to all particular forms or concepts is a potent liberation but also a destruction.

There can be no final truth. The final truth is empty. In my opinion, this is some of what the TLP is trying to tell us.

The only necessity is logical necessity, and this is because form is prior to forms. Causality is just a particular form. This is why causality is only justified psychologically.

For practical purposes this causality is fine. But in my mind, philosophy is not just practical. It seeks Truth, not just profit or pleasure.

Or better yet it seeks its profit and pleasure in Truth.

But this search for Truth leads to the discovery of the impossibility of Truth, except for the One Truth, which is utterly empty.

As mystical as this may sound, I believe it is logical.

It should be remembered that in my view all forms/concepts are temporary. No metaphysics is final. And my own "metaphysics" is self-dissolving. All I can do is point to certain inferences, intuitions.

I am continually surprised that the deeper issues in the TLP are simply ignored. He shows that causality and the self are not logically justified. No comment from those who love Wittgenstein the breaker of metaphysics. Wittgenstein does not just break metaphysics. He breaks also the pretensions of science. Not its usefulness or beauty, but only its over-extensions. Only its implicit metaphysics.

Absolute concept is inferred from seriously thinking about the problem of Form (concept). But we are so attached to our Concept Castles, we might not want to hear it. They are made of sand. Wittgenstein is the tide.

Not that he was the first. Not at all. But he is perhaps the most Western of destroyers/openers. All composite things decay. Our conceptions are composite. They evolve in a sensual, emotional, and social context. The evolve within and from flux.

The only timeless form is the form of form itself. Or the mind's tendency to extract/abstraction unities from experience. We gather an infinite continuum of emotion and sensation under the term "love." We gather an infinite or near infinite series of correlations under the word "cause." We do the same with God, time, self, world, nature, etc. We are only bewitched if it hurts, if it fails us, if our current conceptions reduce us.

Well, the philosopher is an itch. And if we burrow into the ground of Truth, we will find it. And it's isn't much. In fact, to even say "nothing" is already saying too much. The truth is so empty it cannot be told, but only pointed at. And yet the truth has hidden in plain sight.