Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: 7-11@mail.ljudmila.org
Subject: Scheme for a General Literature




        Scheme for a General Literature


        Wittgenstein, TLP:

        [P, E, N(E)] :
        P = all propositions
        E = any set of proportions
        N(E) = negation of E

        Russell: 'The whole symbol means whatever can be
        obtained by taking any selection of atomic
        propositions, negating them all, then taking any
        selection of the set of propositions now obtained,
        together with any of the originals--and so on
        indefinitely. This is, he [Wittgenstein] says, the
        general truth-function and also the general form of
        proposition.' (Introduction, TLP.)

        Now the negation is necessary to produce the Sheffer
        stroke and its dual; atomic propositions, however, are
        illusory - show me one.

        Nevertheless, one can write P, where
        P = generalized alphabetics; and E, where
        E = a finite subset methodology (axiom of choice)
        in any order of P. Note that P is a reasonably
        small integer < 40,000. (Of course further reduction
        is possible by virtue of binary or unary mapping.)

        We have in addition S({E}), where
        S = the substructure or ordering-site (Peirce's
        "sheet of assertion"); {E} (a set of finite subsets
        of P) is mapped onto S.

        Then clearly [P, E, S({E})] is the general form of
        literature - in particular, religious or other
        traditional or exemplary texts (including their
        diacritical and extra-alphabetic graphemes) - issues
        of practicality, decidability, etc. notwithstanding.



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