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THE ANNOTATED ANTI-WITTGENSTEIN

Principal Axioms of a Contextual Logic

Bruce G. Marcot
April 1986
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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.


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