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    A Primer for the Category-Based Nested Form
    A Primer for the Category-Based Nested Form
    A Primer for the Category-Based Nested Form
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    A Primer for the Category-Based Nested Form

    By Razie Mah

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    The category-based nested form serves as one foundation for a postmodern scholastic anthropology. “Postmodern” because it begins with the insights of Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Scholastic because it takes Peirce’s categories and semiotic into questions that would be addressed by the schoolmen, if the schoolmen were around today: What is the nature of existence? What is the relation between mind-independent and mind-dependent being? What is social construction? How do we define the word “religion”? Why is our current Lebenswelt not the same as “the Lebenswelt that we evolved in”.
    This postmodern scholastic research program belongs to the most recent of ages discussed by John Deely in his monumental work Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (University of Toronto Press, 2001). The mission of Razie Mah is to imagine this age.

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    Release dateJan 18, 2015
    ISBN9781942824008
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      A Primer for the Category-Based Nested Form - Razie Mah

      A Primer for the Category-Based Nested Form

      by Razie Mah

      2014 AD

      7814 U0’

      This Primer is the First in a Series

      Devoted to Explicating How to Define the Word Religion

      Dedicated to Charles Sanders Peirce, Thomas Sebeok and John Deely

      Note: Single quotes and italics group words together.

      Dates in Ubaid Zero Prime (U0'). For Anno Domini, subtract 5800.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Actuality and the Falling Apple

      Potential and Gravity

      Normal Context and Problems

      Defining the Nested Form

      Logic

      An Example of Three Logics

      Peirce’s What-if Claim

      Introduction

      0001 The category-based nested form is a synthetic tool deduced from the concepts of Charles Sanders Peirce (7638-7714 U0'). Peirce introduces a definition of the sign as a triadic relation. In doing so, he opens the door to the upcoming age of semiotics.

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