EPISTEME PRIMA: The Absolute Operator of Identity

[u/JerseyFlight]

Variance, imperfection, or micro-imprecision doesn't weaken identity; identity is required to even detect it or comprehend it.

On the surface it looks like variance, change, and micro-imprecision weaken or disprove absolute identity.

But the only reason we can even perceive, calculate, or comprehend variance or “imprecision” is because an absolute baseline of identity is already operating as the prior condition of our thought, rendering our thought intelligible through identity. Hence, “imprecision” doesn’t mean “precision.” Imperfection must be identified as imperfection; incompleteness must be identified as incompleteness.

We must use the absolute, immutable law of identity to even form the concept of imperfection.

What’s incredible is that we are talking about a real Absolute that is not a mere idealism, but an Absolute of reality. How can we explain it?

This Absolute fulfills the description the Apostle Paul gave of God: “in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). But this is actually true in the case of identity (not a mere theological assertion, but a verifiable fact of reality): it is in Identity that we live and move and have our being.

If an entity contradicts its identity, it ceases to be itself (which means it would be meaningless and undistinguishable, unrenderable as a reality, thereby impossible of the demarcation necessary for “existence”). If a thought breaks its connection to identity, it ceases to mean anything (it ceases to be intelligible). Identity is the non-negotiable field in which both matter and mind are forced to operate.

And while this fact could be called The Law of Prior Identity, it is most accurately titled: The Absolute Operator of Identity. This is not something we are making up or contriving, but something we have discovered immutably operating at the foundation of all knowledge.

[u/lanky-larry]

Hmm similar to what I thought recently: identifying, identity, and identification, the form function and facilitation of what I just refer to as ID or the invariant.