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When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things; that it is a case of Existence, or of Co-existence, or of Causation, or of Sequence, or of Resemblance.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
And the whole is greater than the part.
Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer.
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
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The central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum.
Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.
Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all
Re which, again, please keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses-places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.
Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,
energy.
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary ...
What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech
You are the completeness of my incompleteness.
Everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative.
This leads to the consideration of a third great division of names, into connotative and non-connotative, the latter sometimes, but improperly, called absolute.
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
What we say would not be complete if one word did not cease to exist when it has sounded its constituent parts, so that it can be succeeded by another.
In 'Yes' and 'No' all things consist.
She is incomplete, a part-written recipe. How can she imagine what she will be if she only knows half of her ingredients?
We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood.
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.
All perception and thought is relative, operating by comparison and contrast.
Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.
A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
I felt confused, to some degree, by everything - but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused, instead of feeling directly confused
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.
Completion does not depend on
material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.
Incomplete, your suppressed being is there, struggling to be free.
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.
articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid;
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
Everything Contains a Thing but you have to understand that thing
Function influence but does not dictate form
Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.
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By what criterion ... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
At any particular stage in the development of science, our concepts concerning the causal relationships will then be true only relative to a certain approximation and to certain conditions.
the real is actually the intersubjective meaning arrived at by a community in semiosis. One
Mathematics is filled with such instances where it is important to regard one set as a subset of another.
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
voluntary part of their
being a summary and exact account
In the "Not Two" are no separate things, yet all things are included.
When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.
There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features.
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon,
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so lone as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant; they are interested in form only.
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Preceding affections, in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
We declare that the world is not a mosaic, where a plurality of worlds which are essentially strangers to one another are fitted together, but that it is an organism - all of whose parts are governed by the same principle, revealing it and allowing reduction to it.
Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.
marginalia we were discussing today,
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
And incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble.
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
Give me ambiguity or something else.
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
the distance fills and nearness is a void
If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.
This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe.