THE ANNOTATED ANTI-WITTGENSTEIN
Principal Axioms of a Contextual LogicBruce G. Marcot
April 1986
---------------------------------------1. The world is more than everything that is the case.
1.1 The world is the totality of relationships of things.
1.11 The world is determined by the relationships of things,
and by these relationships creating and constituting
observable attributes.1.12 The totality of relationships, contexts, and
perspectives determines what is the case, all that is
not the case, and also all which potentially may be the
case.1.13 The relations in contextual space-time are
the world.
1.2 The world integrates into relationships.1.21 One must participate in the conjoining of things
in order for one to exist, and to exist one must
necessarily take part in and alter the utterable
characteristics of one's environment.2. What is the case, the fact, is the conditional existence of
lower-level facts on higher-order phenomena.2.1 We determine facts through how we relate with the world.
2.2 The relation between self and world is dynamic,
integrative, mutually-determining, and includes but is
not limited to logical representation.3. The logical picture of the facts is the interplay of thought,
conditional existence, and relation with other things.3.1 In the relation of things with things, thought is
expressed explicitly through the senses and tacitly
through attitude.3.2 In explicitly represented relations, thoughts can be so
expressed that the concepts of the thoughts are
consistent with experience.
3.3 Only the context in which a proposition lies has sense;
only in the context of ubeity of function and concept
has a proposition meaning.3.4 The proposition is determined by experiential, logical,
and empirical context: the existence of this context is
guaranteed by the relationship of things with things,
and by the existence of the thinker among and within
such relationships.4. The propositional sign is one formulation of the thought, and
the thought is one formulation of relationship.4.1 A proposition presents the continuity of the
relationships among things and the conditional and
partial truths of things within those relationships.4.2 The sense of a proposition is its consistency and
inconsistency with the possibilities of the relationships
among things and the truths of those relationships.4.3 The truth-possibilities of percepta mean the possibilities
of the relational totality and ubeity of things.4.4 A proposition is the expression or intention of
consistency and inconsistency with the truth-possibilities
of the relational totality.4.5 Now it appears obvious that no general form of proposition
is possible; i.e., no one formulation of the proposition
can describe all truth-possibilities, and no one symbol or
set of names can describe relational totalities.What is essential for describing the general form of
proposition are the specific, context-dependent forms of
relations among things in any specific instance.That there is no general form is provided by the fact that
there is always an emergent proposition whose form could
not have been foreseen or constructed. Such and such may
be the case or may not be the case, depending upon the
context of all interacting things within the contextual
whole.5. Propositions are part of the total, emergent truth of all
propositions.5.1 The truth-functions are founded upon contextual
conjunctions.That is the foundation of a contextual theory of logic.
5.2 The elements of propositions stand to one another in
contextual conjunctions.5.3 All propositions are results of contextual conjunctions.
The contextual conjunction of statements A and B is the
criterion from which to assess truth-relations.If A and B are not conjoined in context, then they are not
related and cannot be assessed for truth-relation.Every proposition is the result of truth-operations on
conjoined, elementary propositions, including the
elementary propositions themselves.5.4 All is relation within relation; truth-relation within
conjunction; conjunction within context.5.5 No truth-function can be derived from elementary
propositions held in isolation from their contexts.Application of truth-operations in one contextual whole
may or may not yield the same results in another
contextual whole.Every contextual whole has its own set of truth-functions,
which are dependent upon the properties of all elements in
that whole, upon the conjunctions of all elements within
the whole, and upon the property of the whole as a
whole.5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my
perspectives.6. The general form of the truth-function is: t = f(t).
6.1 The propositions of truth (relational totality) are
unutterable.6.2 Conditional logic is a relativistic method.
The forms of conditional logic are context-contingent, and
therefore are propositions of a particular relational
totality, but not of all possible relational totalities.6.3 Conditional logical research means the investigation of
specific regularity within a particular relational whole.And outside conditional logic all is continua and
process.6.4 Propositions in the conditional logic are of unequal
value, depending on their utility and pertinence.
6.5 For an answer which cannot be expressed the question is
being phrased from the wrong perspective, and can be
rephrased with greater meaning or relevance from another
perspective.The riddle inextricably exists with differing
perspectives.If a question can be put at all, then its answer may or
may not lie within the perspective from which it was
framed.7. When one cannot speak, one must shift perspectives.