What is a "primitive"? How are "composite holistic integral abstract" categories composed from ('built out of") independent lower-level elements, the way other constructed objects are "built out of parts"?

Basic claim:

• primitives must be atomic -- ie, they are "indivisible units"
• word meaning at an abstract level must be built from primitives
• symbolic representation in a computer is built from primitive elements, like "bits"

We are exploring this question.

Drive the notion of fundamental constructive object to its lowest possible level

Build every abstract object out of distinctions

Every category or concept or class is defined by nested distinctions

How does this issue change or varying depending on "the type of object" we are constructing?

I probably need to firm up these definitions of "object"

is a "category" an "object"?

is a "term" or a "type" an "object"?

probably yes to all

Is not a dimension

Tue, Apr 27, 2021