Saturday, March 19, 2016

Perspective and Numerology

Leibniz locates himself at the intersection of what might be called Ontological Numerology and Linguistic Numerology.  According to the former, all existence has a fundamental numerical character, while according to the latter, a language that is fundamentally numerical is at least possible, if not actual, e. g. Hebrew, according to some Kabbalists.  The systematic significance to him of each is that it transcends Monadic Perspective, and, hence, is universal, though, as has been previously discussed, that concept is equivocal for him.  Now, while Ontological Numerology continues to intrigue the popular imagination, and is accepted at face value by Physicists, the critiques of Hume and Kant have exposed the naivete in such credence.  In contrast, the binary code that is the fundamental stratum of Internet content demonstrates, at least to date, the primacy of the Linguistic variety, and establishes the latter as the sole basis of the possible unity of a society of Monads.

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