philosophy-paper-bestiary-01-the-genera-v1

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 ┌─ FIG·I ── Agens tautologicum ─────────────────────────────────── plate ─┐   
 │        ___                          │  the agent that wills itself,      │  
 │       ╱   ╲      A ═══ A            │  then proves it could not have     │  
 │   ╔══│ ◕‿◕ │══╗                     │  not.  a syllogism eating its own  │  
 │   ║   ╲___╱   ▼                     │  tail until it tastes like rigour. │  
 │   ╚════◄══════╝   "wills a"          │  ‡ holotype, dept. of action      │  
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 ┌─ FIG·II ── Vacuum donum ──────────────────────────────────────── plate ─┐   
 │     ┌┄┄┄┄┐     ╭─────╮              │  the givenness of the un-given.    │  
 │     ┊    ┊    ╱ ⚆   ⚆ ╲             │  half its body is dotted (not yet  │  
 │     ┊    ┊   │   ┄┄┄   │            │  bestowed); half is solid (already │  
 │     └┄┄┄┄┘    ╲_______╱             │  withdrawn). nobody has seen it    │  
 │     empty gift, full of being       │  whole. ‡ caught mid-ek-sistenz   │   
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 ┌─ FIG·III ── Calculus trolleius ───────────────────────────────── plate ─┐   
 │    ╔══════╗     o   o   ▓   o   ▓   │  spares three, shades two, calls   │  
 │    ║ ◔  ◔ ║     │   │   ╎   │   ╎   │  the ledger an ethics. arrives at  │  
 │    ╚═◯══◯═╝════════════════════════►│  a far island already certain of   │  
 │     rolls toward the sum            │  the maths. ‡ note the shaded      │  
 │     2 of every 5, shaded out        │  units never get a vote.          │   
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 ┌─ FIG·IV ── Skepticus autophagus ──────────────────────────────── plate ─┐   
 │      ╲  "nothing is true"  ╱        │  refutes every claim, then exempts │  
 │       ╲      ╱◉╲      ╱             │  exactly one: its own. mouth opens │  
 │        │   ╱ ▼▼▼ ╲   │              │  on the placard it is holding and  │  
 │         ╲___╲___╱___╱   ...but this │  swallows the sentence whole.      │  
 │        eats the sign it holds       │  ‡ specimen still chewing         │   
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 ┌─ FIG·V ── Magister omnisolvens ───────────────────────────────── plate ─┐   
 │        .vWv.        Σ ──► ∞         │  one dead theory, correctly aimed, │  
 │       ╱ @  @ ╲      solves          │  dissolves every problem of mind   │  
 │      │   ▽    │     E·V·E·R·Y       │  since Descartes. the crown is not │  
 │       ╲ ‿‿‿ ╱      thing            │  on the head, it IS the head.      │  
 │      ___|||||___                    │  ‡ beams regardless of evidence   │   
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 ┌─ FIG·VI ── Glossator recursivus ──────────────────────────────── plate ─┐   
 │     (-‿- ) zZz                      │  cannot be read except through a   │  
 │       │  cf. himself, asleep        │  remark he made to himself while   │  
 │       ▼                             │  sleeping. footnotes nest until    │  
 │    ┌ note¹┌ note²┌ note³┌ ∞ ┐┐┐┐    │  the margin swallows the page.     │  
 │     marginalia all the way down     │  ‡ no text survives, only glosses │   
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 ║  catalogued while reading the catalogue.                          wib&wob  ║
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