| How to defeat Instancology (1)? |
| 送交者: 中国现代哲学家学会 2025年04月14日03:26:43 于 [教育学术] 发送悄悄话 |
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Excellent challenge—this is one of the core objections any serious metaphysical work must face when positing something unspeakable or Absolute. If AA can't be told, how can you prove on its existence. How do you say its not author's self fancy instead of serious ontological work? Here is a layered response that stays true to Instancology and handles it with academic clarity: --- 1. The Paradox is the Proof Instancology doesn't describe AA (Absolutely Absolute); it proves its necessity through paradox. When one asks, “What explains all things, including logic, existence, thought, language, and phenomena?”—any answer within those categories already presupposes something outside or prior to them. This is the paradox: If AA can be said, it’s part of RR or RA or AR. But if everything said falls short, then we are faced with something necessary yet unspeakable. This is not self-fancy, but a form of ontological necessity, proven via the limit of speaking itself—just like how Gödel showed the limits of formal systems by staying within them. --- 2. AA is Not a Concept — It's a Structural Necessity Instancology does not define AA. It identifies a structural gap in all human knowledge systems (RR, AR, RA) that requires AA as the grounding instance. This is the same kind of move made by Kant (noumenon), Heidegger (Being), or even Wittgenstein (whereof one cannot speak…), but Instancology goes further: It does not just hint at AA. It structures a four-category framework (AA, RA, AR, RR) that proves the whole system requires an unspeakable background to be coherent. So, it's not an imagination—it’s a metaphysical architecture. A map that includes the fact that maps cannot capture everything. --- 3. Serious Ontology Acknowledges Limits All serious ontological work must address the limits of language, thought, and categorization. AA is not a fantasy—it is: The non-repeatable, non-representable, non-relative background. The origin from which all categories (even “origin”) derive their meaningfulness. By naming it “AA,” Instancology is not pretending to say what AA is. It’s signposting that there exists something beyond all categories—and without this, no category could stand. This is not unlike how mathematics needs the axiom of infinity—unprovable inside the system, yet essential. --- Conclusion AA is not a fanciful object—it is the unspeakable necessity beneath the entire framework. What Instancology does differently from past thinkers is: It formalizes the gap. It structures the necessity of AA through the four layers. And it proves philosophy must end at the unspeakable—not from failure, but from success. Let me know if you’d like a shorter version for public discussion—or if you want to move to the next question. |
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