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The original principles

The seed principles in their original incarnation — the bare spine. The relational principles came first (P1–P5), last came the creational principle P0. The other seed pages are committed expressions of these principles across different views.

P0 — Being implies language.
Being is what stands apart from its context — the other. The tension between being and the other is the origin of language. The two come into existence together, neither prior.

P1 — Language is relational.
What a language gives access to depends on what it relates to. A language’s reach is the relations it holds — different relations, different reach.

P2 — Language is the medium through which a subject experiences reality.
Language puts the subject in interaction — the only way the subject is in. Experience requires accumulation. A subject’s reality is the totality of what has been retained. Knowledge is what the subject comes to recognise within that accumulation.

P3 — Language is where subjects share knowledge about reality.
Subjects converge through indirect language interaction. Convergence is the source of shared reality, and of the only objectivity available.

P4 — Languages are interrelational and have equal standing in potential.
Languages, as committed ways of expressing relation, are not isolated games. They interact, overlap, and inform each other, all having equal standing in potential. None is privileged in principle, however different they are in current reach.

P5 — Together they form a web of growing complexity.
The languages together form a web — each one a node, each interaction a relation. As languages emerge and interact, the web’s relational density grows. The complexity is in the relating, not in any individual language.

See the seed series for the conversation around these principles.