by Nathan Coppedge page 5
Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
�1. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time describes two axes that cross perpendicular to one another. But the center describes a unity, not an absence of meaning. It might help to imagine that each axis is inverted or inside-out, as a way of describing a loop, where only the center has meaning independent of the context, and qualities become less unified and more meaningless as they pass away from the center. This is based on the understanding that truth must stand on substance, and substance is a difficult matter, involving interrelationships or paradox before it can sustain meaning.
Iteration 1
a. Effective-Meaning: Subjective-Perception :: �
Where does the Effective World coexist with the Meaningful World? Our comparison answers this for us, with another question: (That is,) where the Subjective World coexists with the Perceptive World.
Where does the Subjective World coexist with the Perceptive World? If we could answer this question we could state that we know what Effective-Meaning is in the context of Objective-Time�Objective-God. So in what instance does the individual perceive? In what instance is a perception subjective? If we could answer both of these questions we would know where the Subjective meets the Perceptive.
Here are a few possibilities: 1. All is subjective. There is no God, and hence no objective knowledge (because God is the only being that sees a totality, he is the only one who understands anything). 2. All perspectives are subjective, but God�s perspective is also objective. Then individuals might have objective truth but not objective understanding. 3. Anything that perceives has a soul, and souls are all derived or share in God�s truth. God then is present wherever there is knowledge, whether He is living or dead, or a fiction. God then would represent knowledge of any kind, if we say that what we perceive is the only verifiable reality of the perceived.
The question then becomes: Do we ever know anything? Most of us would agree that it is possible not to know, but at the same time any being that perceives knows at least that he perceives. If he doesn�t know he�s perceiving, is he perceiving at all? To have perceived something, the perceiver must eventually know that he perceived it. While there may be many degrees of knowledge, we will all agree that there must be some point at which we know that we know. And if we don�t know that we know, if we do not perceive that we perceive, do we know anything? Any point beyond that isn�t necessary to verify knowledge, because we have already made the loop required for self-awareness.
We know that knowledge is possible so long as we perceive what we perceive. Anything that perceives that it perceives is self-conscious. So we can say that anything that is self-
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Iteration 4
Iteration 5
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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