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Relational Structure

Relationships are prior to facts. Facts are meaningless without relationships. Inside relationships, facts are often interchangeable, but the relationships, themselves, form the greater structure of meaning.

Myths are graphic allegories of meaning structures. Not to be taken literally, or historically, but just the opposite of meaningless - the natural embodiment of human meaning. An effort to make tangible that which exists only in the abstract, but exists nonetheless.

skado 9 Nov 11
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According to physicist Carlo Rovelli, there are no “things”, only relationships. A particle of matter is an interaction between covariant gravity fields and can only be understood in terms of those fields. In a similar way, we might think of a bolt of lightning as a “thing” but we’d be hard pressed defend that idea because lightning has no definite boundary or location. It is more of an event than a thing—it is a relationship of other relationships.

What is a waterfall? What is a person? What is a mythical being?

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do relationships generate facts or simply house them? does meaninglessness persists in spite of facts becoming the myth? is the interchangeable fact not a myth? aren't relationships the myths arising from a perspective's preference or available data?

Great questions!

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Nice one Skado.

As you say the relationship appears first before it is measured and so creating a hypothesis must wait until the relationship is formed. (Obvious I know but just running an idea here!)

That means that when relationship between points occurs it’s action has already been in place and the impetus to create the relationship occurs at least two steps before we notice it or measure it.

Ergo there are an infinite number of relationships being formed that we have no conception of nor will ever have.

Therefore, it is not correct to say ‘that doesn’t exist’ because the relationship may be yet to form or is in the pre-relationship stage but established as a ‘movement’

Yes, yes, yes, and YES!

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