As it is
well known, ἱστoρἱα means investigation,
and presupposes notions such as historical
fact and necessary sequence of facts,
which are also implied in traditional myth. When we deal with the question of
origins, a sequence of facts has a first member which is final or literal, (exomorphical
in our notation) say, a creator god, a Demiurgos (or any representation that we
choose to be final, beyond which we cannot go). The sequence of facts that form
our narrative of how the Demiurgos created the world is not homogeneous, for
the necessity of passing from fact 1 to fact 2, is of a different character
than the rest of the sequence. The actions of a supposed divinity are not of
the same ontological, epistemological, or praxiological order than the human
ones, so they do not belong to a critical historical investigation, which needs
homogeneous sequences in order to make meaningful narratives. The notion of a sacred history, in the sense of a
history as a divine plan, is contradictory, for the sacred excludes the critical thinking. On the other hand,
history cannot go back beyond fact 2 of any narrative account of the past: in
fact, historical writing has only sense when it includes just endomorphisms.
Existence is Encounter. Meeting at the limen. In the limen, the masks disappear, that is, the basic intuitions of identities, such as the identity that I feel and think in relation to the tree that I see in front of me. The identity of the tree is a projection of mine: the unity of my process of perceiving the tree generates a mask in me, the ghost of a limited unity separated from everything else. The simplest form of intuitive understanding of masks and limen is given to us by numbers. Numbers intuitively express the liminal tension that is Existence. A little etymological note. Rythmos in Greek means flow. Arythmos (number) is what does not flow, what remains solidified. Numbers express the liminoid, and flow, rhythm, expresses the liminal. A rhythm becomes liminoid when we can trace patterns in it, that is, when we can construct masks of identities. Mathematics has spoken of flow using the Latin word “continuum”, the continuous. All modern science, since Leibni...
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