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1 minute ago, Someone here said:

@Carl-Richard what is the context of existence as a whole? What is it's position? Where is it located? 

Well, now you're actually pointing towards something absolute (The Absolute), which indeed can only be pointed towards using language-mediated context, but which nevertheless represents the concept of wholeness: melting all relationships, perspectives, subjects, objects, frameworks, contexts into One. Still, we're only speaking about it, and speech isn't it. Even so, wholeness is inherent in relationship. The relation between two parts makes up a whole (Yin-yang).


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15 hours ago, Someone here said:

@Carl-Richard

 I don't understand your answer. 

Let me clarify: I'm using a constructivistic definition of context (used in systemic communication theory). Context is your interpretative framework. It's something you create and bring to the conversation. It doesn't exist out there in the world as an objective "background" behind which events happen. Different situations ("context markers") can trigger different contexts, but those are also dependent on context (how you interpret them). So when I say "language-mediated context", I mean the way in which you communicate your interpretative frameworks using language.

When you ask "show me the context of existence as a whole" while implying that it's impossible, you're referring to the fact that reality itself is pre-interpretative. In other words, reality as a whole does not need to be interpreted for reality to exist, because interpretation implies a relationship between subject (the interpreter) and object (the interpreted object), and since reality is Absolute Wholeness, it's self-sustained and self-created: it creates its own context, its own interpretation. On the flipside, our context (as limited beings) is created as the result of a relationship between things, and that is why speech is not truth (because speech is relative/relational and truth is absolute).

If I'm making zero sense it might be because it's very late and that I sort of gambled on the choice of terminology regarding context (sorry) :P 


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