1 September 2020

Integrating ‘Coin-Flip’ with Spiral


A development from last month's ‘coin-flip’ is this spiral-flip:

Integrating Objectivism’s core branches of philosophy


There are no labels yet, but it does allude to the same ‘flip’ between the two main philosophical branches of Metaphysics and Epistemology.


Why a spiral rather than a disc? 

Reality, which Metaphysics and Epistemology describe twin counterparts of, is neither static nor contained. Existence and our experience of it ‘unfolds’ dynamically. A spinning disc, although the simplest shape, conveys ‘object-ness’ rather than the dynamic relationships between space and time in which all existents have identity. A spinning spiral, in its boundlessness and ambiguity regarding externality/internality, conveys this dynamism rather adroitly I think.   


I seek to develop this further next time, aiming eventually to integrate it with all five branches.  

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