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characteristic of
a body of knowledge is that it is
conveyed through a rather specialized
language, by which we mean that words are used in certain special senses
and that certain concepts and categories are treated as fundamental to an
understanding of the subject. This aspect of a body of knowledge is its
language or vocabulary. To a large extent, any specialized language represents
an artificial creation
because it is self-consciously constructed to express meanings and definitions
as precisely as possible." - Sheldon S. Wolin, Politics and
Vision |
Trivium
Trivium means "the place where three roads meet".
The
subjects of the trivium are the foundation for the quadrivium, the upper
division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised
arithmetic (number), geometry
(number in space), music (number in
time), and astronomy (number in space and time).
Educationally, the
trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the student the seven liberal arts of
classical antiquity.
Grammar teaches the mechanics
of language to the student.
This is the step where the student "comes
to terms," defining the objects and
information perceived by the five senses.
Hence, the
Law of Identity: a
tree is a
tree, and not a
cat.
Logic (also dialectic)
is the "mechanics" of thought and of analysis:
process of
identifying fallacious arguments
and statements by
systematically
removing contradictions, thus producing
trusted knowledge.
Rhetoric is the application
of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader.
Knowledge (grammar), understood, (logic) transmitted as wisdom
(rhetoric).
QuadriviumThe
quadrivium consists of arithmetic, geometry, music and
astronomy.
These stand on the
trivium, consisting of grammar,
logic and
rhetoric.
A quadrivium
plinth is required for the study of
philosophy and
theology.
In the liberal arts as
curriculum in universities the quadrivium is typically considered to be
the study of number and its
relationship to space or time.
Theories are said to be
commensurable if they
can be discussed
using a shared nomenclature
revealing
a recognizable
conceptual structure that allows direct comparison of foundational
elements.
Theories are incommensurable if they are embedded in
starkly contrasting conceptual
frameworks whose symbolic
languages do not overlap sufficiently to
permit a direct
comparison of foundational
elements.
Incommensurability results when individuals "talk past each other"
and comparison becomes muddled by confusion about
context and labels.
Theories are
speculative
conjectures using
abstract reasoning.
Theories require a
basic philosophical understanding of
phenomena.
Theories involve
rational assumptions
based on limited knowledge.
Shaping
principles define comprehension and
methods of analysis.
Sets of theorems constitute systemically
unifying perspectives.
Concepts
are tangible mental images formed
in the mind.
Concept and
perception are entwined
like vines enwrapping each other.
The process of
conceptualization is an activity of
interpreting
perceptions.
Conceptualization is a cognitive process using
modes of
consciousness to frame something
incomprehensible making
it understandable.
Concepts
are inferred or
derived through
induction or
deduction.
Every concept rests on a
foundation of configurations of
relationships.
Taken together
conceptual images constitute
an intelligible
world.
There are two basic kinds of concepts =
theoretical and
empirical.
Empirical
concepts relate to tangible
activities of the sensory domain.
Theoretical concepts use
abstraction to make the
mystifying
comprehensible.
A theoretical concept is an
abstraction.
To abstract
means to draw or derive from.
Abstraction has
no concrete tangible existence in and of
itself.
Theoretical concepts
work in tandem with empirical concepts.
A concept is mental model built in order to
grasp something intangible.
The
theoretical concept of
patriotism stirs emotional implants deep in the
subconscious playing back
images and symbols of tangible activities.
You can be
patriotic, but you
cannot see,
touch, or
taste
patriotism.
Terrorist supression
involves eyes and ears
and boots on the
ground.
Sporting events
inculcate a sense of
patriotism.
If you
see something say something.
Those sincerely
committed to self-knowledge,
in all its complexity, refuse to be
manipulated by the deceitful
patriotic propaganda and religious
rhetoric.
Theoretical
concepts have the potential to deeply influence subconscious
understanding of reality
without conscious
awareness.
Delusions of grandeur use
magical rhetoric to
artificially program the
gullible human subconscous into believing
Hiroshima was
necessary.
Axiomatic concepts,
fundamental precepts, are implicit in every perception as they are the
foundation of all other
concepts.
Axiomatic concepts include:
existence,
identity,
consciousness.
To perceive a
thing is to perceive that it exists.
To perceive a thing is to
perceive that it is something.
To perceive a thing is to perceive that one is
conscious.
Axiomatic
concepts cannot be defined in terms of other concepts as foundational concepts
are logically prior to all other concepts.
No proof can be offered for
axiomatic concepts, nor is any needed:
it is
self-contradictory to deny
them, for they must be accepted and used in every such
denial as they are
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