Social Science: The Semantic Criticism

There is in first an idea of what has essence, which is merely that which is real enough to impress itself on any medium…

It could be called semiology, homotype, homologic, homology, or any one of a number of names… all with the same ultimate logical potential if we ignore axioms…

What happens is also the theory of critique, the frame of reference, the divested variable, the systematic discord—it, whatever it is, is all that can have limit and measure, because it is all that happens, or at least, it is all that can be observed happenimg in a controlled environment barring some exceptional event.

{An exceptional event would in fact be, under some interpretation, either an iteration or translation of earlier events, or some new invention which changes the natural potential of events if they are corroborative of that new thing.}

It is so to speak, semantics. Now, interpret with fear. For, we must be serious. If we are to see the importance of semantics we must see every neutrality and nuance with enough contrast that each thing is slightly perceptible compared to the next.

It is, so to speak, in its own bubble or caccoon of subtly differentiated meanings. They concern everything, but they are all within one perceptive bubble. A single bubble. A bubble of fearful semantics. A technique, a techniqűe, a technic, or what have you. The bubble is the relevant thing, the communicator, the go-to for solving problems. It is a diction, and a doorway, a lucid derivative, and a reconciliation of everything known.

And yet it is semantics, a single idea. An idea-function.

What happens when this function has form?

Well, it becomes sensitive, it learns, it processes, it takes a form, and then it hardens.

And, all these stages are still semantic logic. Thus, semantics to an extent is this process, but it also consists of essence, and a group of other terms:

Corroboration, cohesion, coherence, relevance, application, and idea.

Indeed, the way semantics play out, idea is a very lofty thing, a kind of limit of all potential. Indeed, ideas may be the limits of semantic potential. Fortunately there is more than one.

Therefore, studying this, you may know how to semiologize, and you will be adapted to the notion of formal idea. You will also relax into the attitude of sophisticated formalizing.

After semantics, some type of imagination should definitely be possible. You merely require a definition, and your mind rambles looking for its natural potential.

Since we know semiotics, we know that natural potential is proven fully by the fact of existence.

Therefore, think, know! And carry on symbolically.

(The) Completed Thoughts

When Popper says in his Objective Knowledge that objectivity depends on some ‘objective fact’ what he may be referring to is the following idea. Say I physically rotate a piece of junk mail around a new package containing a precious book. The piece of junk mail may be interpreted one way as ‘inspiring’ new ideas, such as semantic ones. But, a better way is to see the piece of junk mail as objectively obstructing some future knowledge which I would gain if I had not rotated the junk mail around the precious book. The case would be trivial, except that it is highly metaphorical. We begin to think that indeed, the precious book could be rotated around things --- What would happen then?


When Cassirer writes:

The simplest and surest way to demonstrate the significance of the universal symbolic function for the formation of the theoretical consciousness would seem to turn to the highest and most abstract achievements of pure theory. For in them the connection stands out in full brightness and clarity. ^1

How different it would be, if he had expressed a desire to turn symbols into functions.

[1. Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Vol. 3. New Haven: Yale U, 1957. P. 45].


If Immanuel Kant had taken a grasp of Descartes’ mathematics, he might have reached a universal theory of language which he would term metaphysical, and have abandoned his concept of the Noumena!


If Wittgenstein had seen that “The general form of the proposition is the essence of a proposition.” ^2 without contradicting himself, he might also have been led to imitate Rene Descartes. Of course, with Wittgenstein there is nothing to do but learn, but how little learning there is! It is as if Wittgenstein were communicating the dreams of Strunk & White.


[2. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.“ Major Works. Basil Blackwell, trans. New York: Harper Perennial, 1958, 2009].



If Isaac Newton had known that an object pushed by a slanting surface can gain altitude if the slope is less than the sharpness of the vertical, then he might have thought about perpetual motion machines instead of cannons and prisms!


How different if LeFebvre’s genius in The Production of Space(^3) had been turned towards logical theories, as opposed to those native to social science!

[3. LeFebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans. Malden: Blackwell, 1991. P. 100].



If Avi Sion had abandoned his Aristotelian study in favor of something more artistic and metaphorical, what a difference there would be.


If Nietzsche’s On the Geneology of Morals were not devoted to the detesting of Jews, but to the development of a logical metaphysics, what a difference there would be.

The above text is now available as an academic article HERE.

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I'm in the top 4% at Academia.Edu! See PAGE here.

Feeling more prestigious now! Not everyone Ivy gets to that level, in my presumptuous opinion!


Update: Oct. 2014 down to Top 5%

Introverted Developments / Private Projects

Immortal Poems is one of my slowest projects. I have about two or three (different from the Poems by God, because of subject matter). The emphasis for these pieces is realism and fulfilling the pieces-in-puzzle mentality in the quest or psychic prophecy of immortality, making them more difficult to write. The simple explanation is that they are more rare, and therefore more difficult to locate in my mind.

My Theses project, which inspired the 1-Page-Classics, is slowing down, although I have created three new folders showing further degrees of Theses, following different forms of standardization. These new folders do not have 1,600, but instead, 5 to 50 so far. Mostly titles, as before. Theses 2 has creative essay-type material, for example: "A Platform and Popularity: How to Market Recursive Typology" and "Place of Flowers: Bulbs of Power and Stamens of Knowledge." Theses 3 has pieces that fit the new classics standard, which is hard to describe. One example is "Salt of Peter" and another is "Terrestrians." Theses 4 has only elements which forgive a secret of the universe. Presently only "The Dance in the Ether," a piece which gives a kind of etherized feeling.

I have a project called The Footnotes which consists of diagrams (mostly flow-charts) which interpolate intellectual developments throughout history, and sometimes into the future.

I have another project called Old Ones that I may or may not publish, about cute sayings that I attribute to my unborn children.

The Dimensional Encyclopedia is in the process of developing. It is likely that I will eventually publish at a faster rate than one per year. The second volume is complete but won't be published until I receive my Kirkus review. I have intentionally put some challenging subjects along the path (phenomenology, mathematics) to keep the productivity even.