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Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
�1.a Iteration 3: Justifying the Axes page 1
Immortality-Change : Life-Death
These represent the Judgment axes. Their perpendicularity is fixed because we know that life and death exclude eachother, and so far as we know, something can be alive or dead independent of whether it changes. We also know that Immortality exists on the same axis as Change, using the following reasoning:
P1: To be immortal is not to die
P2: All change involves death
P3: Not to die is to be alive (because all life is perceived, and what is not perceived by
anyone doesn�t exist, and therefore isn�t alive, esp. in the context of the Effective-Meaning of Subjective-Perception. Based on the notion that facts are not reliable)
P4: Only living things may change
P6: Not to die is not to change in relation to life
P7: Not to change in relation to life is not to change in relation to death
P8: Not to change in relation to life and death, is not to change in relation to change.
P9: Not to change is the opposite of change
P10: Opposites exist on the same axis, because they measure the same quality (the relative absence of something is taken into account in any measure of the reality of a given condition).
(Px: Anything that does not change does not change in relation to change, insofar as that
thing does not change.
Py: All changes occur between life and death.)
Conclusion: Immortality does not change in relation to Life or Death; therefore it serves as a definition for what does not change. Perfect opposites exist on the same axis, because a conceptual union must account for all possibilities. So Change-Immortality is an axis perpendicular to Life-Death.
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