>>2729042>>2729098To relate what you say to what I am saying, we both agree that thought and speech are symbolic devices (such that Plato inherently relates speaking and thinking as two modes of the same act), and that the entities which these interact with are abstract variables which give proposition to their own being. You perhaps also agree to the Kantian position that space and time are causal impressions imposed on objects - I emphasise the point that this then makes logic an inherence of thought, since if thinking has conditions which necessitate ends then there are laws which it abides by (you dismiss this but entirely insufficiently, by offering the alternative proposition of non-identity, failing to see that "non-identity" is a formal identity in itself, since if it is proposed it maintains positivity, or self-identity. Further, formal non-identity leads to immediate contradiction, since if A≠A, then the presupposition of A cannot be proposed, so is an impossible claim. Your dismissal would be as if I claimed "1+1=3" but provided no proof. It's not just lazy, but incredibly dishonest). Thus, as it will be proper to conclude, thought is logical, and so thought can be identified with the Greek (λόγος). Once we establish this, we may see that if thought may grasp anything, it is itself, and so this is the primary proposition (e.g. Cartesian subjectivity; A=A), which also has the implicit presupposition of identity in itself (A).
Moving on, to see thinking and speaking as the same act, mediated by symbols, with Being apprehended as identity, and thus as unity with a symbol, is to see Being as necessarily differentiated by different symbols. Thus, a different word denotes a different "thing" (for else, it would not be distinguished; a table and a chair differ in their nominality only by the extent that they differ in their formal reality). So then, Being is difference, by which words identify the essences of things in their real signification (for example, the nominal in itself is insufficient, for if we speak different languages yet signify the same thing; say, "chair" and "καρέκλα", the name is different, but the formality is maintained). So then, signification is divided, between appearance and essence, where all appearances aim at es
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