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The Importance of Prepositions in Metaphysics

Grammatology is the study of how grammatical themes are deeply informing different philosophical traditions. Wilbur's integral impulse was looking around at different schools of psychology and meditation, usually which dismissed each other. And so yeah, that's what I wanted to explore as onto choreography, you know, this circulating through metaphysical lenses in a playful generative way.

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But definitely, we as layman mentioned, we've been fortunate enough to talk to very many different kinds of people. And it's been, you know, super enriching and exciting. I actually have a series coming up on integral life that I'm going to be doing together with Rob Smith and with Paul Marshall. Okay. Yeah. Looking at basically the intersection of critical realism and integral theory. So Rob says he wants to try to bring some content to the integral life website that isn't only so well, we're focused, but that looks at what's emerging a little bit more broadly in the meta communities. For for my integral, grammatology, I know you and I have had several talks about it. So I'll try to say something that's not redundant to that. Okay, great, great. Yeah, for in the context of the integral post metaphysical spirituality forum where we were doing kind of that deep dive into right, right, you know, multiple lineages of thought, I began to notice just different fundamental orientations in different camps of thinkers, especially in object oriented ontology, inspected of realism and some surrounding communities where they seem to focus more on structure or on process or things like that. And I noticed that was like either a verbal emphasis or a nounal emphasis. And I began to think, are there other emphasis? Are there other paths which focus on other parts of speech? Yeah, other other other essential metaphysical constituents or, you know, foundations for how you're put together a worldview? And I began to just read around. I came across fairly soon in that reaching around and searching. La Tour, talking about prepositions. Okay. And La Tour was especially drawing that from a French philosopher named Soriao, and also from Michelle Sarah, both of whom talked about prepositions to some extent. And they held them in a different way. They regarded them as a kind of metaphysical departure from antiquity, which which usually looked for substances, you know, essences, substances, structures or processes. And with prepositions, there was a move away from that towards looking at the interstitial generative sensations in relation. Right, right. And La Tour was using prepositions to build his own one of his own models, you know, but she was talking about as modes of existence and beginning to see how you can interrelate different modes of existence. So that was an interesting thread for me. I began to look around, are there adjectival? Are there adverbial approaches and I found them? And I knew Wilbur, of course, focused on pronouns with either we the it's so that just like it looked to me that there are, you know, fundamental grammatical philosophy themes that are really deeply informing different philosophical traditions. And, you know, Wilbur's integral impulse was looking around at different schools of psychology and meditation, usually which dismissed each other. And he wanted to figure out that. And how do you make them more coherent and complementary to each other rather than, you know, exclusive alternatives. And so I felt that same impulse with these different philosophical traditions I was exploring. And I found this grammatical kind of lensing allowed for a different kind of facilitation of world views and metaphysical approaches that, you know, our forum was dedicated to post metaphysics. But in one sense, it was a move that I would call metametaphysical, you know, you're taking a metaphrospective to metaphysics to understand. And, you know, there's a an inactive, you know, onto epistemology involved in that this inactive where you recognize that in in holding this frame, it allows you to see something, but in that seeing it actually changes you and how you're holding and there's this loop that happens, generative participatory loop. And so yeah, that's became kind of what I wanted to explore as onto choreography, you know, this circulating through metaphysical lenses in a playful generative way. Yeah.

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