Distinction

is perfect Continence. (Laws of Form)

Distinction is not numeric, it has no units of measurement and no scale of comparison. “Difference is not a quantity.” [⇒ QWAN]

As such, distinction is not grounded in science, it is grounded in Experience.

In the primordial Event of a *distinction*, the distinction is its own Name. ⇒ Literal

See *Keynote: Explorations in Laws of Form — Louis H Kauffman*. youtube

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The making of a distinction is the beginning of order. It establishes the cleavage between the object distinguished and everything else in the field of perception. The act of distinction is a Choice made by an Observer to select this object rather than another or this dimension rather than that one. The making of a distinction precedes the sending of any message, the assignment or recognition of an identity/ and the determination of any criterion for judgment.

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The formal structure of the explored territory is three algebraic pattern axioms, or beliefs, about how configurations of mutually nested containers can be transformed. The vehicle of exploration is pattern equivalence between forms of containment. The found artifacts brought back are patterns, or theorems, that depend upon both the structural constraints imposed by the axioms and their medium of expression.