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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

These ludicrous theoretical elaborations, instead of being a move forward, are a step
backward, even compared with the original, logical, foundation of human thinking

described above.

This is because the area of the figure describing your logical foundation, instead of
being equal to some finite number, becomes equal to zero. Thus, one of the most
primitive functions, which has only two meanings, is taken as the basis of your
thinking. A general summary shows that the larger the area describing a logical
foundation, the more perfect is the process of thought.

Hence, regrettably, the inevitable but deserved conclusion is that if your system of

apprehending reality can scarcely be called thinking, it must be the most primitive of
all those possible. Your binary logic forces you to distort everything that is essential.
Thus the natural series of numbers, which is possible in principle, is just an artificial
mathematical trick that is only slightly consonant with reality, but it becomes for you
the cornerstone of that mathematical foundation so familiar to the majority of humans.

You try to quantify just about everything and at the same time you cannot even provide
precise information about the strength of the wind, expressing it simply in binary
concepts of “yes” and “no”, “it is” or “it isn’t” and, moreover, without the expectation
of any meaningful understanding of those statements.

Arithmetical quantification led you to new problems, brought about more by the
primitiveness of your thinking than by the exigencies of reality. So you waste your

energy trying to solve them, seeing them as real anomalies of nature that are difficult
to harmonize with your world view. One example: your dealing with rational and
irrational numbers as if they had a real scale. Binary logic forces you to fragment and
artificially separate solid perceptions into independent facts, occurrences, conceptions,
and categories, artificially separating them one from the other.

Your limited logic and obsession with quantification forces you to believe that there is

a finite number of attributes to an object or event and also to label each of them. This
gives you the dubious opportunity of separating one attribute from another, a trick you
call “abstraction.” The movement through the steps of abstraction to more common
signs is, in your understanding, the only way (and the only right one), but in reality it
takes you in the opposite direction from truth.

You believe that moving from the highest level of abstraction to the lowest common

denominator is the only correct way to proceed. On the contrary, it is really just the
opposite. It is no accident that all your abstract constructs, called philosophical
systems, are self-contradicting, even though they are based on a common logic.

Step by step, descending into darkness along levels of abstraction, step by step, losing
connection with reality, little by little your philosophical systems lose their orientation

and finally at the “dead end” of their progression you are forced to answer the
meaningless question about the priority of matter over spirit, by a “yes” or a “no.”

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