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On Abstraction and Analogy

I like to publish my most important ongoing works to this blog so that they may be read in the event of my unexpected death. The foregoing text is one example. In it, I discuss the crucial topics of abstraction and analogy, two mechanisms of mentation and communication so pervasive and critical that it can…

What Is Prior to Time and Space?

by Mark Tracy The physical notions of time and space—whether understood phenomenologically or theoretically—are ontologically posterior to the co-arising notions of demarcation and abstraction. By saying that one thing A is ontologically prior to another thing B, I mean that A is necessary for B to be intelligibly conceived at all. It is equivalent to…

Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone

Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First StoneTake up space in creation.You already do.Take your place in creation:Your place of creator and creature,As the imaginer, the imagining;What you slow grows; and what you let pass shall slip away at its pace.You see, there never were any rules.But if you want one, here:You cannot…