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Timeless Insights that Speak for Themselves Downloadable PDF from Appearances and Realitiesby Gustav Ichheiser Ichheiser hits some of his most important themes in this article. Blindness to the obvious, the idea that we believe we see things as they are while only seeing them as we perceive them to be, and limitations of insight creating… Continue reading Gustav Ichheiser: Misunderstandings in International Relations

Ichheiser Presents a Very Original View of Personality Downloadable PDF of Mote-Beam section fromAPPEARANCE AND REALITY by Gustav Ichheiser Gustav Ichheiser was mostly overlooked during his lifetime Downloadable PDF extended bio of Ichheiser’s life and struggles

The essential functionality of Limitation Philosophy is seen in the principle of the Limitation Paradigm. The Limitation Paradigm The Personality and Being of God is Limitless.The personality and being of human beings is not limitless. All of our existence as bounded beings plays out in a boundless universe. When I show the limitation of language… Continue reading Foundation in a Sound Principle

Downloadable PDF: End of Chapter One, The Copernican Revolution, by Thomas Kuhn Because they are characters in my Novel, Socrates and the Divine Sign (aka, The Logic of Limitless), this mention of Leucippus and Democritus caught my attention. For purposes of Limitation Philosophy this part of Kuhn’s work demonstrates the counterintuitive nature of reality. While… Continue reading Leucippus Democritus Copernicus

Downloadable PDF of Text Cited in this Post A rich understanding of embodiment is necessary for a theory of being to be in accord with reality. One aspect of the ‘problem’ in ‘the mind body problem’ is that it turns mind (and the rest of personality) into a ghost, and the body into a machine.… Continue reading Embodiment, Metaphor and Meaning

Downloadable PDF of a section of the chapter TRUTH AND VALUEFrom Jacob Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science In this critique of logical positivism that makes specific mention of the idea that what cannot be proven is not true Jacob Bronowski points out the fallacy of this. Truth is not so simple and logic breaks… Continue reading Karl Popper Refuted, Sort of…

Karl Popper Part Two Link to Downloadable PDF Utopia and Violence by Karl Popper In other posts I discuss utopian problems and utopian solutions. These show the beginning of my thinking about utopian conceptions. Since then my thinking has flowered and fruited into a very powerful set of ideas. I now see utopianism as a… Continue reading Utopia and Violence

A Critic of Methods The phrase ‘a critic of methods’ in Popper’s writings struck me as enlightening. How much more to the heart of the matter it is to examine methods instead of haggling over the meaning of results. Results are subject to individual judgement and interpretations, their consequences may be ongoing and they may… Continue reading Karl Popper

A Low Level of Randomness is Necessary Background Reality: In Limitation Philosophy physical boundlessness is a logical necessity for the emergence of limitless personality. For a limitless personality to emerge from the matter of the universe the physical matter must also be limitless. Boundless is used in physical connotations (The Deity’s embodiment), and limitless is… Continue reading Complexity Theory