thought is reflection
the reality of mind is thought
mind is reflection
the idea of the idea - in Spinoza's terms - is mind -
is consciousness
therefore mind is a fact of nature -
it is nature-knowing - nature
or just the fact of knowing - to be strict
what is known - the object of knowledge - is a reflective
issue
the world is neither mind nor matter per se
the world is unknown
mind and matter are constructions -
reflective constructions
it is not 'I think therefore I am'
it is 'I reflect therefore I reflect'
thus it is a statement - not of substance
it is in fact a statement of no - substance
it is a presupposition
a ground statement
that is the assertion of mind
not that mind is this or that
but the fact of it in a logical sense
existence - the concept is not from this point of view -
fundamental -
it follows on
it is a deduction
an unnecessary deduction
existential statements of the form
'x exists' -
are statement where the pure existential statement is
given before its assertion
it is a statement of the obvious
existence is presupposed
in every statement
every statement in so far as it asserts
existence is assertion
existence is therefore not in question
what is in question is knowledge -
can we know -
or is what exists is unknown?
so
existence
is the logical space of reflection
the ground reflection covers
it is the domain
in a logical sense
it is logical space
actual existence is a theory of logical space
a characterization of it
we assert
'what' is asserted is a substantial representation -
of the assertion
and this is important - a picture - not of what is
asserted - but of the assertion
it is to 'object' - ify the reflection
the act of mind
this is what any ontological statement is
a giving of form to reflection
it is the realization of reflection
the presentation of it
an idea of it - as object
that is outside -
reflection proposes itself - outside of itself
or proposes - its proposals - as outside
it posits - it reflects-out
p.s.
and this is all Anselem's ontological argument is
the objectification of reflection
'nothing greater' -
if you want to say 'that which nothing greater can
be thought'
the conclusion of the argument
denies the premises
'nothing greater' is a relational notion
'that which nothing greater can be thought'
only makes sense as an assertion of the limit -
that there is a limit to thought -
beyond what can be thought - known - is what?
the unknown
the unknown as God
you do not find existence on the other side of knowledge
what you find is the unknown
and unlike Anselem's God - or Spinoza's - it has no power
- no substance - no attributes - no modes
it is a logical state
that which is not known
the object of knowledge
the focus of mind
the ground of reflection
