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The whole of this 'knowledge' may be viewed as effectively refining a more
primitive observation (itself 'knowledge', as follows) that 'the human
phenomenon and things human' is known to us as of two discrete types: (1) what
we transportably know (even to statistically qualified theorization) and
(2) what, NON-transportable, we MAY think we know. Thus what we transportably
know includes language-and-words that we can refine as necessary(*3) to make ALL the above transportable
-sub-item belief in god, for example, even though there are elements of
that 'phenomenon and things' (the 'nature' of god) that are not themselves
transportable. What this means is that we have in institutionalized
language-and-words, the facility for transporting any ASPECT of 'the human
phenomenon and things' including the identification of non-transportable
material even to speculation on 'the nature of human evolution and progression'
-itself a transportably qualifiable item.
[The existence of 'generic religion' or 'belief in religion' as items of
conceptualization, for example, have an etiology fully accountable
in institutionalized and transportable, human evolutionary process, but the
ideational 'stuff' of religion (one or another) has been conjured
into existence and is institutionalized, but not transportable. 'The
phenomenologically certain supercession of religious material' then(*4), is yet to be 'experienced, learned-from and assimilated' (-
see The System of Human Experience).
In April 1998, The Atlantic Monthly published EO Wilson's misnamed The Biological Basis of Morality where, contrary to
what the title suggests -a validation of 'moral principles', essay
substance is more properly that of The Biological Basis and Etiology of
Morality' -that is, preclusive of 'principles' (any) and their 'propriety'.
This 'subtlety' is of the greatest importance in that it identifies the
manifest preponderance (in human communication) of material fundamentally
lacking forensic integrity -dogged, interminably, with 'further
clarification'.
(-from The Matter of Forensic Integrity)]
'What we transportably know and what, non-transportable, we
may think we know' are (by dimension)-
- Phenomenological material (transportable and/or
institutionalizable) is (i) anything of consistent and unambiguous formula,
codification, theorization, routine, process, development or 'active
operation' and (ii) any such element or variable thereof -static in
that sense as opposed to 'hermeneutic' (below); (iii) 'the essentially
quotidian and familiar knowledge, practices and material constituting
operational society and civilization'.
Conjurational material (institutionalized and explicitly NON-
transportable; non-operational and static therein) is that
(substance) of the 'explanations' inherent the evolution of 'a
congregationally sexual organism of deliberative capability' out of
ignorance (*5) -the 'noumenalism' material of
'ethical, moral, political, personal or other beliefs' that dispose us to
making decisions (hermeneutics, next) not covered 'phenomenologically'
(above)
-material inherently superceded by knowledge out of 'configuration-
space investment (science and mathematics) in the course of continuing
progression and evolution'(*6).
Hermeneutic material is any deliberation or active development of
'intrinsically uncertain and therefore uninstitutionalized
transportability': (a) interpretion or operation entailing conjurational
(non-transportable) material and/or (b) analysis or development of operation
that is inherently heuristic by virtue of unanticapatable experience
or eventuality; any such element or variable intrinsic thereof; 'the taking
of unanticipatable, heuristically determined or other eventuality into
institutionalization' (above).
-the mere existence of something (anything) as subject or material, in other
words, identifies it as de_facto institionalizable or
transportable in some respect, thus the idea of god is
transportable even if the 'substance' or 'constitution' of god is not.
A careful deconstruction of the two statements, "God is pro-life" and "There is
no fucking god", for example, identifies the first as de_facto
'institutionalized' but non-transportable by fact of non-transportable
(substance) 'what "god" is or is not'. The second, on the other hand, is
patently transportable by fact (science/language) of 'continuously
refineable encompassability' -the 'fucking' being no more than 'a
superfluous, unambiguously derogatory adjective'.
[The Appendix below lists 'material' classifications for each
of these 'aspects' as developed in The Nature and Course
of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy. The classifications, in
turn -and the importance of the initiating source, are discussed in Roget's Thesaurus and 'The System of Human Experience'.]
(Further examples -1 of 2)
The scientist 'furthering knowledge' by means of statistical observation and
conjecture can only but employ analysis and heuristic process of
transportable and therefore 'non-hermeneutic' rationale -wholly
phenomenological in that respect. 'Knowledge in religious material' on the
other hand, can be only -but not both, either 'phenomenological' in
transportable symbol/variables of (eg) language (grammar, syntax,
definition etc), composition, bibliogony and 'nominal' material -or
'hermeneutic' for 'non-transportable interpretation of non-transportable
material' -(eg) the 'stuff' of ethics, sermon, religious politicking et cetera-
and NOT furtherable of phenomenology in that respect.
[This discussion is not explicit of physical materiality in that that is
implicit by virtue of 'physical' specifiability
(transportability), thus bibles, churches and preaching (occupation) are
phenomenological material as are playing with toys and manufacturing them -all
'appurtenances' included.]
(Example 2)
Legislative process is, typically, one of 'incompletely transportable situation
and eventualities', and may have, consequently, all three aspects about it.
There is first an 'initially unambiguous', codified mechanism (transportable)
for undertaking analysis and legislation (eg, US congress) and, second, the
'hermeneutic' process which entails analysis (uninstitutionalizable) of
conjurational material (eg 'religious freedom' or 'ethical campaign financing')
and development of what is (typically) 'heuristically accommodating
legislation'. Thus, the resulting institutionalized legislation may be
either inherently 'hermeneutic' as in civil law, or 'intended to be
unambiguous and consistent' (phenomenological and 'static') as of criminal law -
but inherently subject to 'unanticipatable eventualities'.
There is, lying obscurely inside the above, one last, important point still to
be made. A major part of 'the human phenomenon and things human' as dynamically
constituted today -society and civilization, goods and services; their
production, distribution and consumption, and government of the whole- is based
on 'the primitive pecking-order intrinsic our warm-blooded-vertebrate,
congregational sexuality'; there is, in fact, no aspect of domestic, class,
religious, political or other idealogical disagreement or warfare that is not
directly traceable to that origin. The single and greatest factor regarding
intellectual and physical reconstitution 'in the nature and course of human
evolution' then -perhaps to some Homo cogitans, is the eventual and
inevitable vestigialization of that conjurational material -pecking order,
intrinsically- as influence in human affairs.
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[FOOTNOTES]
*1 - The following definitions, transportability et
cetera, are excerpted from The System of Human
Experience which covers much of this introductory material.
system: a 'logical integrity' comprising -as 'discoverable', some
particular set of real or abstract configuration space symbol/variables
and the mechanics and rules relating them, and by extension, all vector/states
and subs, and all assignable or potentially assignable properties, attributes
and characteristics including such as derive from them insofar as they are, all
of the above, 'transportable as phenomenology' (next).
phenomenology is that of 'system particulars' as above, and it is
transportable only if it has a representational or symbolic mapping '1-
to-1 consistent and unambiguous the mapper's knowledge', that is, without
hermeneutics of any kind. Phenomenology may include for example -and at
all levels of abstraction, such property/concepts as finiteness and infinity,
serial-and-cross-hierarchization (in the broadest sense), state-table and
'machine that goes by itself' mechanisms, and most importantly-
statisticality to qualify the probabilistic interrelationships of all
elements of the system and its space with each other for intrinsic
incompleteness of 'axioms'. -Phenomenology, in other words, is either
transportable or it is not phenomenology.
*2 - Institutionalization 1: the quality or state of being
or becoming institutionalized
institutionalize 1: to give the character of an institution to : make
into or treat like an institution; esp: to incorporate into a system of
organized and HIGHLY FORMALIZED BELIEF, PRACTICE OR ACCEPTANCE. (-from
Webster's Third New International Dictionary -capitalization by psb)
-This 'systemization' is discussed more completely in The System of Human Experience and is not to be
confused with Herbert Spencer's Social Darwinism.)
*3 - Godel's Proof and The Human
Condition is a monograph on the three types of 'cerebrative substance' -
phenomenon, noumenon and convolution of the two- that constitute, in effect, 'A
System of Human Experience'. The essay, Roget's Thesaurus
and 'The System of Human Experience', furthermore, argues the integrity of
such a system by virtue of that thesaurus identifying 'an appropriately
constructible systematics'.
As to 'what we transportably know and what, non-transportable, we may think we
know'-
One knows that '2+2=4' by fact of its transportability, but one
does NOT 'know what he did on the night of January 15' or that 'the Democrats
(or Republicans) are responsible for the sorry state of ... (whatever)' -
except, perhaps, by presenting phenomenologically-based evidence
qualified to that end, accordingly, as 'circumstantial' and/or 'statistical'...
(-from The Matter of Forensic Integrity)
*5 - regarding 'material inherent evolution out of ignorance'-
idiomatics (the): a body of generalized beliefs, thought processes and
modes of confrontation and expression variously common to most peoples of the
world, essentially 'what it is the nature of things to be' (especially men and
women: 'You can't change human nature') or 'what they ought to be'. They
include for example, the outer but universal interrelationships and expressions
of 'nurturing (soft) womanhood', 'provident (strong) manhood' and the
'propriety of having children', of 'belonging' and the 'primacy of one's kind
and ways' (-and their expressions of shame and insult -'saving face',
machismo, 'gay pride', 'self esteem' etc), of practices in 'powers unknowable
to us' and of various work and play criteria and ethics -'merit', 'worth',
ownership et cetera. (-from Kernel Properties of The
Hominid Organism.)
*6 - regarding 'ignorant explanation' and progression-
It is the 'statistically reliable usefulness of explanation attaching a
perceived phenomenon' (eg conjuring 'spirit' in fire, and 'soul' to inhabit
live bodies but not dead) that promotes progression -'knowledge, however
erroneous in fine'- and it is progression in turn that operates to increase the
integrity of 'knowledge'. Progression here means generally
continuing evolutionary process reflecting natural-selection and pecking-order
with or without apparent genetic mutation, but even as may be influenced
or modified by 'heritage' of some kind -primitive tools and techniques onward
into eventually civilizational advances thru technology and science. (-from The System of Human Experience)
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