Nov 30, 2019, 3:26 PM

by Andrew M Gilmour

I’m not sure this will be of any use to you but I expanded Aristotle’s metaphysical model to help myself understand them.

In keeping with truth equals that which exists, and each layer being predicated on the previous one; I came up with this model:

Empirical and Analytical:

  1. Ontic (4 categories of existence)

  2. Epistemic (perceiving, awareness of)

  3. Semiotic(?) (methodology, language is the first method, but includes everything in standard epistemology not included in the epistemic category)

  4. Semantic

  5. Ethic

(CD: “Supply”, Masculine )

Leftists uses the mirror opposite model.

Social and verbal (social constructivism):

  1. Ethic (X is good, I like X)

  2. Semantic (all definitions are defined how I value them)

  3. Semiotic (all methods are arbitrary)

  4. Epistemic (perception and awareness come after: feelings, definitions, and methods) They are not aware of anything that hasn’t passed through the first 3 levels.

  5. Ontic (only after this completely backward process can a thing be said to exist)

(CD: “Demand”, Feminine )

This seems to be the operational structure behind these two modes of being. Unfailingly when I read a leftist argument, I find the methodology procedes from the ethic or (false) definition.

They’ve always used this model, only now it has a name.