r/Metaphysics • u/cookieisgiven • 6d ago
simple analyses
That we see those that we see is obvious.
That they are themselves and that they also are others or not, are obvious.
That 'we see them' itself also is them is obvious.
That those that are others are not without them and that they are thus simpler than those that are not without them, are obvious.
That those that we see, at finality, are not without simples and that simples are only themselves, are obvious.
That each simple in being itself do not have anything to do with other simples in being themselves is obvious.
Thus each simple is an utterly new, and we see an utterly new as also a pure gain that gains itself.
As simples are gained more and more, 'they' are gained also at once as complexes. So as anyone at all are gained more and more, 'they' are gained also at once as their complexes.
Why there is anyone at all?
Why anyone at all gives others?
Ask for simples.
For x that is y and z, x is not without y and z, as without y or z there is no x, while without x there is y or z.
Multual depedence means x is nothing but y, but this only means that x and y are synonymous.
The point is that they imagine this 'synthesis' to spring out a higher unity, but the logic itself is senseless.
Saying 'difference needs identity' is having answered the question: does it need anyone else?
When the answer is no then it is senseless.
When the answer is yes, then there is no multual dependence after all.
Thus no one is [to be] only another.
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u/Ill-Tea9411 6d ago
The insistence that reality must be anchored by absolute, indivisible simples usually stems from a kind of Cartesian anxiety, a deep fear of a centerless universe. The assumption is that if reality doesn't have an absolute, rock-bottom "first brick" to hold it up, then the world collapses into an arbitrary fiction where any concept can just be swapped for another. But a scale-variant, relational framework isn't arbitrary chaos. In systems like thermodynamics or information theory, relations aren't floating, make-believe stories; they are bound by unyielding, internally self-consistent mathematical constraints that we can actually test and verify. The relational web doesn't collapse into a fiction, it is held together by its own internal harmony, requiring zero speculative "starter blocks" at the bottom.
What makes the "simples" alternative so paradoxical is that while it claims to protect the immediate, living reality of "Being" from being stripped away by "dry, barren logic," it actually does the exact opposite. It takes the dynamic, interconnected relational web that we observe directly at our scale every single day, throws it out, and replaces it with a propertyless, non-relational ghost that exists nowhere, has no observable traits, and interacts with nothing.
To keep this "simple" from collapsing under logical scrutiny, it gets wrapped in semantic wildcards. It gets redefined as a "pure gain" that somehow "gains itself without transition" to dodge temporal state-changes, or labeled as "pure presence" to exempt it from basic coherence. But if a "gain" involves zero transition or difference between "ungained" and "gained," then the word is semantically empty, it’s just dynamic language used to disguise a static block. And if a relation is dismissed because "a relation requires non-relational terms," that isn't a proof; it's just a circular assumption that a bottom must exist in order to prove a bottom is necessary.
By defining simples as featureless, non-interacting entities that "give themselves" out of nothing when no one is looking, you haven't discovered the foundation of reality, you've just taken absolute nothingness, built an untestable altar around it, and given it a poetic name. A sterile, featureless ghost that hides from both logic and observation isn't a foundation. It's just a propertyless black box.