Saturday, January 6, 2018

Can You Accurately Identify The Relationships of Units?

Unit



"The ability to regard entities as units 
is man’s distinctive method of cognition
which other living species are unable to follow."

"A unit is an existent regarded as a separate member of a group of two or more similar members. (Two stones are two units; so are two square feet of ground, if regarded as distinct parts of a continuous stretch of ground.) Note that the concept “unit” involves an act of consciousness (a selective focus, a certain way of regarding things), but that it is not an arbitrary creation of consciousness: it is a method of identification or classification according to the attributes which a consciousness observes in reality. This method permits any number of classifications and cross-classifications: one may classify things according to their shape or color or weight or size or atomic structure; but the criterion of classification is not invented, it is perceived in reality. Thus the concept “unit” is a bridge between metaphysics and epistemology: units do not exist qua units, what exists are things, but units are things viewed by a consciousness in certain existing relationships. . ."

Epistemology

"Epistemology is a science devoted to the discovery of the proper methods of acquiring and validating knowledge."



kəmˈplisit/
adjective
  1. involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

    "all of these people are complicit in some criminal conspiracy"