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... | "Anglo Box" has taken on a secondary meaning through prolonged memetic usage in the community as a reference to Anglo-Empiricism more broadly. The mnemonic here is that (just like the rethorical technique produces infinite discourse over proper nomenclature), the metaphysics of Empiricism conceptualise through formulaic definitions that are themselves constructed as being the logical emanation of further definitional formulas until every reasoning around cause and effect hits a logical bottom at the atomic level. This is (likely) an inheritance from greek thinker ''Dēmókritos''' and his conception of the universe as having come to be (and ordered by) the random mechanical interaction of atoms compounding into matter-arrangements of higher complexity. | ||
What is important about the "Anglo Box" is that it's method of generating definitions amounts to the construction of mathematical formulas in prose-form, in which every word is supposed to act as an instantly evaluable hyperlink to a different concept. But because statements are constructed entirely as formulas in which the words are just symbolic representations of more complicated concepts, all meaning communicated lies within all the other formulas that are implicitly "cited". This leads to fundamental barriers to communicating meaning between the two people in a dialectic unless both have been indoctrinated with combatible versions of the anglobox. Thus, "Debates" of the type between Vaush and Destiny amount to two videogame NPCs running a diagnostic peer-evaluation of their individual angloboxes and "discourse" is generated by the consequences of both noticing the checksum-errors that are inevitable with this method of communication. | |||
== Definitions and Marx == | == Definitions and Marx == | ||
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The Anglo-Box is a term used by the Infrared community to refer to a specific rhetorical technique used by leftists, where defining words is what drives forth their arguments. This technique was used in the Infrared-Vaush debate by Vaush.
Western Metaphysics
"Anglo Box" has taken on a secondary meaning through prolonged memetic usage in the community as a reference to Anglo-Empiricism more broadly. The mnemonic here is that (just like the rethorical technique produces infinite discourse over proper nomenclature), the metaphysics of Empiricism conceptualise through formulaic definitions that are themselves constructed as being the logical emanation of further definitional formulas until every reasoning around cause and effect hits a logical bottom at the atomic level. This is (likely) an inheritance from greek thinker Dēmókritos' and his conception of the universe as having come to be (and ordered by) the random mechanical interaction of atoms compounding into matter-arrangements of higher complexity.
What is important about the "Anglo Box" is that it's method of generating definitions amounts to the construction of mathematical formulas in prose-form, in which every word is supposed to act as an instantly evaluable hyperlink to a different concept. But because statements are constructed entirely as formulas in which the words are just symbolic representations of more complicated concepts, all meaning communicated lies within all the other formulas that are implicitly "cited". This leads to fundamental barriers to communicating meaning between the two people in a dialectic unless both have been indoctrinated with combatible versions of the anglobox. Thus, "Debates" of the type between Vaush and Destiny amount to two videogame NPCs running a diagnostic peer-evaluation of their individual angloboxes and "discourse" is generated by the consequences of both noticing the checksum-errors that are inevitable with this method of communication.
Definitions and Marx
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