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Theoretical Metaphysics as of the dawn of the new millennium

Where we left off
Looking for a pattern
A second look at the pattern formation:
The surprise of nothingness
Revisiting Metaphysical Engineering through Theoretical Metaphysics

Theoretical Metaphysics: The eternally moving horizon of knowledge
Speculative summary possibilities regarding the interrelationships of four 1st truths
Theoretical Metaphysics
Philosophical Progress
Advancing knowledge

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Theoretical Metaphysics

Theoretical Metaphysics

You are still thinking too small.
It would appear the end can never be found within a foundationless system, can never be found ‘outside’ a non-Cartesian System.

The lack of an end would appear to unequivocally establish the fact that the non-Cartesian is the ‘absolute whole’.

The appearance that the non-Cartesian is the ‘absolute whole’, however, is just that ‘an appearance’. You, we, are still thinking too small.

The pre-Zeno concept of a universe composed of the physical led to an understanding espoused by this work, led to an understanding of a non-Cartesian abstract system powered by a Cartesian system located ‘within’ the non-Cartesian system and as such became the focus of this work, The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, as illustrated below:



The understanding of this expanded system, a system religiously and scientifically called – symbiotic panentheism, and philosophically called – ‘being’ being ‘Being’, is the point of tractates one through sixteen of this work.

It is this tractate, Tractate 17, which details why it is metaphysics, at the point of a new millennium, is capable of being divided into three subject areas of study: Metaphysical Engineering, Practical Metaphysics, and Theoretical Metaphysics.

Tractates one through sixteen, the Conclusion, and the Postscript validate the subject areas of Metaphysical Engineering and Practical Metaphysics.

Practical Metaphysics is a subject, which explores, expands, generates, analyzes, critiques, and debates knowing, the noun, and knowing, the verb, as they relate one to the other.

Metaphysical engineering is a subject, which applies the implication regarding our models of reality to social structure, social morality, social ethics, social justice, social issues, ….

Tractate Seventeen substantiates the concept that our understanding reality is an ‘organic’ process, a process in constant development.

Tractate Seventeen, points the way for the development of theoretical metaphysical. Although the tractate may, at times, appear to be immersed in hopelessness, such is, in fact, not the case.

The sense of hopelessness, futility, is simply the exemplification of the typically human characteristic of impatience, wanting to ‘know’, understand, and comprehend now not later.

Having laid the groundwork for patience as opposed to impatience, we can now proceed towards what theoretical metaphysics is to encompass.

First it is important to understand what Theoretical Metaphysics is not:

Theoretical Metaphysics is not the examination regarding the personality of the whole. The examination regarding the personality of the whole is the field of Ontology.

Metaphysics is the examination of three questions:

1. Where: Where is the whole/singularity? Where are the parts/multiplicity/individuality of the whole?
2. What: What is the whole/singularity? What are the parts/multiplicity/individuality of the whole?
3. Why: Why does the whole/singularity exist? Why do the parts/multiplicity/individualities of the whole exist?

The answers to these basic questions, where, what, and why, lead to the immergence of Metaphysical Engineering, Practical Metaphysics, and Theoretical Metaphysics through the process of definition emerging from reason, observation, and belief.

A detailed examination of Metaphysical Engineering is provided in the first trilogy: The complete book - In The Image of God, sections of the book: You and I Together Have a Purpose In Reality, and tractates one through fifteen of this work.

A detailed examination of Practical Engineering is provided in the first trilogy: the complete book: - Stepping Up To the Creator, sections of the book: You and I Together Have a Purpose In Reality, and tractates one through fifteen of this work.

What then of Theoretical Metaphysics? It is this tractate, Tractate Seventeen, preceded by the groundwork laid in Tractate Sixteen, which not only outlines the direction in which Theoretical Metaphysics is now to proceed but also lays out the first two principles of Theoretical Metaphysics.

1. The parts/elements of the whole exist for the whole.
2. The whole exists for its parts/elements.

It is the existence of both principles that initiates the descriptive adjective describing the totality of reality: symbiosis.
Now one may immediately object to the concept of the whole existing for its parts, but how can one reasonable object since the whole is the whole and as such the whole can by definition have no function to something ‘greater’ than itself.

One may object on the bases that the whole may have no function at all. To suggest the whole has no function, however, would in essence be the ultimate form of nihilism generating endless trauma and despair on the part of the elements of the whole.

When examining the whole, one must remember that the whole, like truth, is relative to the ‘location’ within which one makes the statement (See Relativistic 1st Principles: Volume I, Tractate 2: The Error of Aristotle). As such: When one is ‘within’ the individual the individual perceives itself to be a ‘whole individual’ comprised of its parts. When one is ‘within’ the physical universe, the physical universe perceives itself to be a ‘whole universe’ comprised of its parts. When one is directly ‘within’ the purity of abstraction, the abstract perceives itself to be the ‘whole of abstraction’ comprised of its parts. The parts of the individual, the physical, and the abstract have been described in great detail throughout tractates one through fifteen of this work.

In regards to the three questions, where – what – why:

Practical Metaphysics and Metaphysical engineering deal with individuality of the parts/multiplicity as regards our most advanced understanding of the whole of reality.

Theoretical Metaphysics deals with the whole itself:

Where: Where is the whole?
What: What is the whole?
Why: Why does the whole exist?