To all interested in the subjective-objective debate,
the task of behavioral logic is to trace the relation between our intentions
and the
conceptual and rational forms in terms of which we perceive and respond
to ourselves and the environment
back to the point where these have their common origin / there are
basically 3 major theoretical approaches
which have been utilized in Western thought to understand the nature of
concepts and structures in terms of
which the world is apprehended: Platonic theory, positivistic theories,
and Kantian theory / each of these
theories varies as to where the basic concepts in terms of which the
world is organized and structured are
located, but there is 1 thing these theories have in common / each theory
starts off with a dichotomy which
splits the world into 2 distinct systems /// Spencer-Brown (1965)
discovered that the making of a primary
distinction, which is the unexamined given in each of these theories is,
by itself sufficient to generate the
structure of logic / this has ramifications in almost all branches of
human thought and is likely in time to lead
to basic reformulations of Western philosophies / attempt to take this
concept of a primary distinction to a
more fundamental and general level / explore the common genetic basis of
logic and behavior theory, and, at
the same time, arrive at a definition of some basic general system
concepts (Herbst 1997)
This is a brief synopsis of co-genetic logic. I believe it is time the
social sciences stop trying to separate objective and subjective beliefs but
they be understood as linked together in a primary distinction, inseparable
as units of their own design.
Something to chew on,
Eric
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