Sunday, January 14, 2007

How can questions about cognitive forms-cognitive agents,cognitive objects/phenomena and cognitive instruments lead to an understanding of the nature of becoming/What do we mean by the nature of being?”Do we imply an underlying essence that all being shares in common?A substratum that would constitute the essential strand that would unite all phenomena,whether abstract or concrete?So,are we speaking of a unifying strand or a unifying ground,or of an originative ground from which all being emerges?

An originating ground,if it exists,might not be accessible by reason but can only be speculated upon,at least within the realm of ratiocinative construction. It would seem that any understanding of such questions is best understood as arrived at partly through the constructive efforts of the human mind/human cognition,in which the capacity to make deductions,correlations,abstractions,unifications of ideas and their relationships to phenomena is crucial. Therefore we would be speaking of a unity between the ratiocinative capacities of the human mind and the possibilities the universe offers for what could be understood as aspects of being that transcend the ontological assent/the sense sense of its existence/assent of any particular mind.

If there exists a unitary or unifying ground of being,does it not follow that the ground of each being which consist in or participate in or emerge from that ground?Would an exploration of the ground of each being the,not constitute an exploration that leads to what that being shares with other beings on its own ground?And since our exploration is woof the ontological characteristics or qualities that enable certain epistemological possibilities as these emerge in/through relationships between phenomena,may our study,therefore,not consist in an exploration of the ground of being through an examination of the ontological implications of cognitive processes as these emerge as mode of interrelationship between phenomena?

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