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Worms, Frederic Mackay, Robin - Between Critique And Metaphysics (2005)
A dialogue between critique and metaphysics that belongs here as a secondary map of the abstract terrain in which numogrammatic thinking takes hold.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because the numogram occupies exactly the territory where critique risks turning into diagrammatic metaphysics. This discussion names that tension more openly than the primary archive often does.
It works by staging philosophy as an argument about limits, method, and what lies beyond ordinary critique. The page's value is metaconceptual rather than diagrammatic in a narrow sense.
That matters because numogrammatic writing is easiest to flatten when the critique/metaphysics tension is ignored. This page keeps that tension explicit.
How to read this text
Read past the journal wrapper and into the conceptual dispute itself. The payoff is in the argument, not the publication apparatus.
Track how critique is defended, exceeded, or rerouted. That movement explains why the page sits near the numogram materials.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 16
But perhaps we must nevertheless, whilst return- ing to the question of science, make a brief attempt to go a little further. between science and philosophy The two aspects that we will discuss here tend in effect to widen the radical distinction which these two philosophers establish, in opposing senses, between science and metaphysics.
Definition · paragraph 9
It is towards science itself that one must turn the weapons of ‘‘idealist’’ or ‘‘intellectualist’’ critique, in order to measure the inevitable gap between its internal norms and the collection of facts or the image of the universe into which they can be integrated: such is the aim of the historical detour wherein the central phase of Brunschvicg’s philosophical work finally culminates.
Definition · paragraph 12
We can now appreciate how, beginning from the distinction between space and time, succession and simultaneity, Bergson can arrive at a general distinction between science and metaphysics, one upon which in fact all of his philosophy is founded, including its moral import and its concrete applications – precisely those problems which in fact suppose conjointly the two dimensions which he comes to oppose to each other.
Stakes · paragraph 15
We can understand why critiques of Bergson in the 1930s, although unjustly attributing to him a confusion capable of justifying political or totali- tarian ‘‘mystics,’’ could simultaneously reproach him for making a metaphysical analysis of the moral and political stakes of the epoch, and of the role that science and technology had played in them.
History · paragraph 16
Between physics and pure metaphysics, founded respec- tively on space and duration, our experience unfolds in admixtures which are studied by specific sciences, constrained to make the distinc- tion between the two pure elements which are mixed in their object in order to obviate the confusions which give rise to false problems.
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Numogram and Occult Numeracy Primary section
Decimal labyrinths, syzygies, left-zero, and the archive's experiments in number as orientation.