Yet Another Influence on Objective Knowledge, Dating 1981 - 2002.

Suggestions of the outline of categorical deduction in the work of Paul Ricoeur (phenomenologist, critic of phenomenology): (1) "The idea of foundation is rather that which secures the equivalence and convergence of the ways (logical, Cartesian, psychological, historico-teleological, etc.)" (Part I, section 1, parentheses his) (Phen. Reader, p. 580). (2) "Thus elucidation... requries that meaning be submitted to a genuine form of work" (Part II, section 2) (Phen. Reader p. 594). However, he describes this as "less contingent" not more, and not involving vast contingencies. (3) Ricoeur quotes Husserl about "sustaining a universal" and then goes on to talk about how "this interpretive core assures the 'representative' commonality of the two intended meanings." (Part II. sec. 2) (Phen. Reader, p. 595) Surely he isn't talking about categorical deduction? But he later explains that what he means is the "transition from one apprehension to the other" --- a process similar to an analog computer. (4). Finally, Ricoeur says: "Hence the fixed meanings and the contents of stable expressions must be substituted for fluctuating meanings and subjective expressions. The task is dictated by the ideal of univocity and governed by the axiom of the unbounded range of objective reason" (italics his) (Part II, section 2) (Phen. Reader, p. 596). Had Ricoeur discovered objective reason himself? Apparently not! He goes on to explain that what he is describing is the 'inversion of the theory of intuition into the theory of interpretation" (same page). Whatever the case, Ricoeur was certainly very close to discovering the same theory that I discovered. Perhaps he even considered it to be trivial. But he does not talk about it directly, only using references to it as a critical faculty upon another text.

Quotes by Ricoeur taken from his work Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, John B. Thompson, trans. as quoted in The Phenomenology Reader. Dermot Moran and Timothy Mooney, eds. New York: Routledge, 2002.

It turns out...

The Hyper-Cubism book was out of print because I didn't respond to my publisher alert messages.

It's in print now HERE!

Sorry, but none of my books are at risk of being out of print anymore. Thank goodness!

Recently-published books include The Dimensional Biologist's Toolkit (originally planned for next month or later, but published early), and the updated Dramatis Personae including a story about Marie Antoinette involving 'musical thread'.

The Dimensional Biologist's Toolkit can be found HERE.

Dramatis Personae can be found HERE (technically it's supposed to be seven dollars, but Amazon discounted it to five).

New Addition to My Website at Impossiblemachine.com

Explore Coherentism with Systemo!

Gaining Ground as an Author

1-month record above 400,000th authorrank now.

6-month record above 500,000th authorrank now.

Gaining approximately 100,000 ranks every 6 months.

at this rate, I'll be in the top 100,000 permanently in 2 years.

There's also some chance that the growth is more exponential.

For example, I made almost 30X the sales I did last December.

It's still not a lot of money, but exponential growth is a good sign.

Good news, overall.

Link to Nathan Coppedge's Author Page HERE.

I have 100 Followers on Twitter for the first time!

That puts me above the Top 3% of Twitter users! Yay!

View my profile / comment on my quotations /promote yourself in relation to global movements HERE.

Not to taint the broth...

* HAIR HA HA HAIR

In case my I.Q. is 220 instead of 135 for getting a GSOHI score of 22, I've decided to celebrate by offering a number of ideas which I think are worthy of Newton or Galileo, who each held I.Q. scores of 190, and high scores by others such as Cezanne and Zen Masters:

GALILEO IDEAS
1. I applied analytic as a razor.
2. If she knows French, it could be seven languages (she's Arabic).
3. The moon is made of cheese. Proper answer: thank you.
4. Interesting times. Exponential matters. (soul of the Renaissance).

NEWTONIAN / LEIBNIZIAN IDEAS
1. There is an aperture at the zeroith dimension.
2. Modular politics.
3. Creature feature.
4. Diamond dementia.
5. Old words.
6. Picaresque problems = Proverbs.
7. Order of the Sun = Hellish Obligations

CEZANNE IDEAS
1. Idea gardens
2. 'Tropical' pictures = Fauvism

ZEN MASTER IDEAS
1. Paper gardens
2. The second center.
3. Aesthetic Epicure = Asceticism

I got a score of 22 at GSOHI,

whatever that means... (maybe luck, maybe random)

Supposedly it's a scam, but at least I scored better than any of the results for a guy who boasts that he filled it out at random.

I'm not completing my membership, but here are the results for amusement:

CONGRATULATIONS!
You have passed the Global Society of High Intellect (GSOHI) IQ test and are now eligible for an official membership of our prestigious society. 

Please Note: Passing this test means that your IQ is better than 95% of general population which is a sign of unmatched brilliance. [It says this for scores of 10 and 16 as well, for some reason, according to one report]. Passing the GSOHI IQ Test is surely a significant achievement for you and the certificate will improve your academic and career prospects not only in your home country, but also internationally.

Below are your test scores:

Cumulative Score = 22.00

The most notable thing about this is probably that I got an invitation by e-mail...

For those that want further amusement, I recommend my earlier somewhat serious post on 'God's I.Q. Test' / 'God's I.Q. System'

I have a bestseller rank again!

• NATHAN COPPEDGE'S PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE DESIGNS & THEORY - TEXT EDITION - Dec 26th, 2014
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
• #90 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Reference > Patents & Inventions

And Kindle, a day later:

• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,505 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #92 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Reference > Patents & Inventions

Link to book HERE.

My sales

are officially doing 6 times better than last year!

That was a tentative goal for predicting exponential growth.

So, Nathan Coppedge might be famous, right?

Not yet, it seems.

According to Amazon (U.S.) I'm still in the 100,000th - 400,000th author range. And Amazon.co.uk doesn't have an author rank system, apparently, or at least not for those that live outside of the UK.

The Techne: Practical and Philosophical Advice and Guide to Intellectual Creativity

BOOK DESCRIPTION

FROM THE INTRODUCTION: 
Advice comes in many forms, but that is not to say that it cannot be classified. Over the years, of all the practical advice I have received, the most appealing were those that conveyed a symbolic message. Needless to say, examples of this specific type were scarce. I almost felt like I needed to hallucinate to see any fragment of a system within the advice I was receiving. I looked for logic, and found materials. I looked for leitmotifs, and found grunge and working processes. All in all it was very unsatisfying, until I found some common connections amongst the different types of advice. This book expresses the knowledge, both abstract and practical, that came out of that discovery. (Short: 32 pages. And cheap. Many of the quotes in my other blog post for today's date come from this book. It was written in one day, but considering that, the content is very good).

It is available on Amazon HERE.

Recent Nathan Coppedge Quotes, as posted at Poemhunter.com

"I found a system without math!"

- Nathan Coppedge (2013).

"Representational reality is virtual reality."---Nathan Coppedge (2014).

"Preferring subjectivity over death is still absolutism." ---Nathan Coppedge (2014).

"[C]ompleteness. It was the most outrageous fact - - the kind of fact some authors have mistaken for death." --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Somewhere beyond the exercise of the imagination...was an outer boundary...Every question appertained to it." --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"The symbol of everything belonged anywhere". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Metaphysics granted me that all were variables". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Practical advice was the domain of a scripted set of perfections". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Imagination could live there if it's whole point was not to be dangerous. But the merest hint of adventure, and the mind would snap, and the subject would not longer be practical".

 --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Not only practicality was perfect". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Nihilism was the conviction that a person was no more than a value". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Successful religions are subtle annihilations- -the apocrypha of nihilists... Successful people use value as neutral currency, in this sense becoming profoundly immoral". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Imagination can be a force of politics when it is seen that it is imagination doing the computation". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Perhaps, I thought, I was having an absurd religious experience". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[I]t was a representation, so it was a polytheism". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"I was now a politician of the meaningless. The sort of person who has meaningful things to say..." --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"And sometimes EVERYTHING is what people need..." ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"The sages are full of advice about doing nothing. It is often better than doing the wrong thing". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[W]hen I think of the practical, I think of returning to EVERYTHING..." ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"We can't get everything merely by being practical, and hence, we can't get practicality merely from being practical". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Practicality is inevitably a simplification". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"If the task is difficult and ordinary, then chances are, there is someone who can say that it involves a ‘special technique'. If there is no special technique available, it is either sacred knowledge, or you're supposed to delegate the task to someone else. If you cannot delegate, and you don't think it's sacred knowledge, and it doesn't involve a special technique, then you know that Fate will step in, for better or worse". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"To avoid mediocrity, it is important to delegate". ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[O]nly the trickiest, most intelligent people seem self-sufficient...They have learned to depend on other people's minds instead of their bodies. They have raised the standard, and climbed on top of other people's backs. Only by being dependent have they begun to look independent". ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[Concerning the higher life...] it is partly because they're delegating about their fate, and their sacred knowledge is a special technique". ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)


THESE AND OTHER QUOTES AT POEMHUNTER!

I mentioned someone

from the Non-Objective art movement at the Hyper-Cubism Group on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/HyperCubism

Those who would like to see examples of Hyper-Cubism may visit my Hyper-Cubism Gallery on Etsy, or that group page.

I also have a partly color art book available (not glossy pages, but it's less expensive than most art books by a factor of 1/2): Nathan Coppedge's Hyper-Cubism: Post-Cubist Drawings and Paintings ---currently only available as an e-book unfortunately. Hopefully in-print again next year.

Another, perhaps equally good book featuring Hyper-Cubism I also wrote this year, which is High Art: A Guide to Artistic Perfection, which is purely black and white and thus easier to print.

Remember, Amazon gift certificates work for physical printed book also, not just e-books.

I only sold one book last december

then I sold 11 books in jan - march.

This year I've sold 19 books in december.

So, theoretically I could sell 209 books between jan and march.

I have good books. So I don't discourage it.

New post at the Dimensionism Group

https://www.facebook.com/dimensionism/posts/412906312192790

It concerns the concept of 'vast contingency' and its development in relatively recent works.

It relates to categories such as:

>History of Logic

>Coherentism

>The philosophy of Nathan Coppedge

The Dimensional Philosopher's Toolkit

may be temporarily unavailable from December 23rd, for a few days, as I am updating the copyright page (the DPT has an official copyright from the Library of Congress).