THE TRACTATUS OF DUALITIES I. MEANING 1. Meaning may be complex, or 2. Meaning may be perfect Exceptions: 1. There may be a denial of the potential for complexity 2. There may be a denial of the purpose of perfection II. CONTAINMENT, 1. Must accept the meaning or meaninglessness of being contained. 2. Containment may imply a property, state, or commitment of being contained Exceptions: Escaping the containment may be escaping the implied commitment 2. Perhaps containment is meaningless, but this denies any entailment. SURFACES 1. Surfaces imply dimension, implying complexity, or 2. Surfaces imply impression, implying value [Impression limits dimension, when it is not infinite; Infinite impression returns to containment or meaning] Exceptions: 1. Surfaces may have a valuable complexity, or 2. Surfaces may be rendered intentionally arbitrary; This follows from simplicity without value, if it is seen that zero either exists by commitment of resources, or remains subtle to intentions III. CAUSES 1. A cause may be a movement in space, implying a failure of containment, or 2. A cause may be an idea, implying a failure of surface Exceptions: 1. A motionless movement 2. An appearance of an idea QUANTITIES 1. A quantity may be it’s own type, or 2. A quantity may be an idea of type Exceptions: 1. Quantity may be contained by one type, or 2. Quantity may be the only type VARIATIONS 1. There may be two characteristics: identity and similarity, which are related opposites, or 2. There may be two characteristics, motion and shape, which are identical and unrelated Exceptions: 1. Identities have a form with a similar motion, or 2. Identities are relationships IV. RETURN / INCIDENT 1. The demonstration of an ‘object’ is a demonstration of a complex surface, or 2. Relationships do not move or there is an arbitrary idea Exceptions: 1. Complexity is a relationship, or 2. Complexity is arbitrary MODULARITY / SYSTEM 1. Relationships are by complexity, or 2. Relationships are by function Exceptions: 1. Function is complex, or 2. Relationships have a meaningless complexity DIMENSION / INFORMATION, 1. Dimension is reducible to a simple container, or 2. Meaning scales to complexity Exceptions: 1. Meaning reduces to a simple container, or 2. Dimension is ersatz ENTITY / DEFINITION 1. Entity is a simple container with a complex surface, or 2. Entity is an ersatz container with interior dimension Exceptions: 1. Entities are meaningfully complex, or 2. Entities are a function of causality (that is, interior dimension without outer dimension) V. FUNCTION 1. Function is a result of exterior dimension, or 2. Function is a result of interior dimension Exceptions: 1. Interior is exterior, or 2. The function has a function INTERFACE The entity functions by correspondence between aspects or levels 2. The entity functions by reference to function Exceptions: 1. The entity functions by correspondence to functions 2. The entity functions by reference to aspects or levels GOVERNMENT 1. There is a corresponding function-state, or 2. There is a form of irrationalism Exceptions: 1. The function-state does not correspond, or 2. Some function can be rationalized ARCHITECTURE 1. Form follows function, or 2. Function follows form Exceptions: 1. Form follows form 2. Function follows function TRAVEL What does not encounter relativism may encounter the ersatz [formal functions], or 2. What is not a module may have a rule [functional forms] Exceptions: 1. Relative complexity, [functional functions] or 2. Modular separation [formal forms] VI. FOOD / METAPHOR 1. Food tastes like nothing, or 2. Food tastes delicious Exceptions: 1. Differences in taste [qualifier: not with relativism] 2. Something about food WISDOM / MEMORY, 1. Truth is known to be opaque, or 2. Truth is known to be translucent Exceptions: 1. Opaqueness can be seen through, or 2. There is a paradox WORK / COMPLETENESS, 1. Work is comparable in measure, or 2. Work is different in category Exceptions: 1. Work is subtle to measure, or 2. Work is only one type of activity DEFENSE / PROGRESS 1. Proof is known as a public secret, or 2. Proof may be known in private Exceptions: 1. Proof is a real secret, or 2. Proof is revealed in public HONOR / HONESTY 1. Age has achieved what it knew of youth, or 2. Youth boasts what it does not know of age Exceptions: 1. Age has achieved what it does not know in youth, or 2. Youth boasts that it is already knows of age USEFULNESS / VIRTUE 1. One may imply a circle, or 2. One may say a sphere Exceptions: 1. One may imply a sphere, or 2. One may say a circle [end] Coppedge, Nathan / SCSU 2014/01/03, p.