Re: absolute general law of capitalist accumulation

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Grammar, logic and math are systems of ordered
symbols.
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Me: Not to the Greeks, or to Hegel. They are
"objectively" real. That's why the Greeks never
evolved the concepts of negative numbers or zero; how
can you talk about zero of something? It's absurd. In
one late work of Greek mathematics I studied in grad
school (I can't remember the author), the writer, who
is working up something like algebra, expressly rules
out answers in which you will get a negative number,
because they are "impossible" answers.

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"The word" was important at the "beginning" of the
human species,
because
language was important.  Perhaps the Gospel reflects
this fact.
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Heidegger, in his many, many exegesis of ancient
philosophy, says that the greek word for "to speak,"
legein, which is what logos is derived from (or vice
versa -- I don't know), comes from the word for "to
tie together," because what you are doing is finding
different things in the world, tieing them together so
to speak in a meaningful whole in a sentence, and then
expressing them. God knows I'm not a Greek philologist
and don't know if this is true or not.

In any case by the time it made it to the Gospels
"logos" had several centuries of use as a technical
philosophical term, especially in the Stoics, who
remember were the biggest philosophical school in the
Roman Empire (and were famous for their system of
logic too. :) ) It's very important to the
neo-Platonists too.



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