Many have tried to derive reality from some small set (or even one) axiom (I think therefore I am etc.). But if reality is fundamentally a Whole, then any of its characteristics should implicitly contain all others (including the one just used i.e. Whole) and it shouldn't matter where you start. The starting point will be undefinable and all other concepts should be able to be defined in terms of the starting point itself and the word "is".
Reality is.
I will try to sketch out a stub of reality based on the concept of Now or Present.
The past is accessible, although imperfectly, via symbols (or signs) in the Present. The future is one symbol that stands for a now different from the current one, but containing the same signs of the past plus signs of now.
Define communication as the creation of permanent signs of the present (creation can only be created in the present), and the decoding of those signs in the present (decoding can only take place in the present). This is a definition that does not require the concept of Time (it introduces Time implicitly), but only a reality to be encoded and decoded, and a Present.
A sign says "bridge ahead", but the bridge has been destroyed, what does the sign point to?
Something must "be", if it does not "be" then it is nothing. But the word "is" cannot be assigned to a subject that does not "be". Therefore "Nothing" is only definable as a sign, pointing toward something that cannot be defined. That's how I deal with what is beyond me, by making signs and using those signs as intelligible objects, even when those signs point to zero intelligibility.
Every act is only in the present. An act that has reached its conclusion is no longer an act.
I have to start over now, Attempt One is becoming to confusing and lacks a good structure.
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