The Essence of Knowledge is Simulation and Logical Construct
来源:Lecture Notes in Arts, Literature and Linguistics. Volume:18. February 21-23,2022, pp.169-178. | 作者:Yong Duan | 发布时间: 2021-12-29 | 14732 次浏览 | 分享到:
It is an important basis of ontology to explain clearly what the subjective world contains. Frege and other Western philosophers were seriously wrong about concepts and the foundations of mathematics. The simulation is to mimic something with a fake product. People's knowledge about the world is also a kind of simulation. The content of knowledge is fake product relative to the object. The difference between people's knowledge and the object that is simulated can be made on purpose. The altered knowledge doesn't necessarily have real object corresponding to it. These thought games can bring about more value of knowledge and benefit in practice. The civilization and culture of human being mainly come from the innovative thought games. The logical construct of sentences describing something is a simulation of the thing or thought game. A symbol is a substance used to create an association in mind. Logical constructs have three advantages compared with real things: simple, useful, and stable. The concept is the logical construct produced after abstraction of things. Different degrees of abstraction can produce different degrees of concept. Abstract concepts of most disciplines retain more attributes, so they are not easy to analyze and study. The concepts of numbers and points, lines, planes and bodies are the results that retain few attributes after abstraction, which are simpler than concepts of other disciplines and easier to analyze and study.
Key Words: Epistemology; Logical construct; Concept; Simulation; Maths; Geometry

. Introduction

Now the development of philosophy is very slow. Derrida, Hawking and others even said philosophy is dead. There are many difficulties in philosophy, but one is the most crucial: we must first make clear what is in the subjective world. This question is really the foundation of the whole philosophical ontology. Many philosophy theories were not understood in the past mainly because this question was not clear.

There are not only dreams and sadness in the subjective world, there are many very important things. In the past, most people mistakenly regarded these contents of the subjective world as objective things. The Subjective Idealist philosophers took note of this, and they babble on and on that consciousness is the principle. But they did not get to the point, they did not make clear which important things are in the subjective world. So their philosophy became elusive. Logical constructs including concepts and propositions constitute an objective world 2 in the subjective world. These contents are the simulation and innovation of the objective things. Understanding these things can help us build a whole new world view.

. The Simulation

1. What is Simulation

Simulating is to use a fake product to mimic a real object. For example, a model car can be used to mimic a real car. The shape of the model car is very similar to that of the real car, which means the model car has some of the same structure and properties as the real car, such as wheels, cab, steering wheel and so on. At the same time, some structure and properties are different, the model car is small and slow, and so on.

Human making simulation products can meet human needs. The same properties between the model car and the real car can meet the needs of children. The different properties can meet the needs of adults, because the structure of the model car is simple, so the price is cheap. For the manufacturer, the cost is low, so it can be produced in large quantities.

Many people think that only the true, kind-hearted and beautiful things are good. In fact, many times the false, cruel and ugly things can better meet people's needs. Toy cars are fake, but for children, fake cars satisfy their needs better than real ones. Fake flowers, rockery are good things, artistic images and artistic plots are almost false. Mercy to the enemy is the crime to friends. Clowns on stage can bring us happy and artistic enjoyment. Heliocentric theory is also false, but in Bruno's time, it played a role in historical progress. All drawings and models are fake, they are essential for all kinds of projects. The ultimate standard of value is people's interests and needs, not necessarily true, good and beautiful. The ultimate standard of truth is not truth and objectiveness, but usefulness.

There are many kinds of methods of simulating. The model car is made of plastic, iron plate and other materials. A photo is also a simulation, but the material of the photo is not plastic and iron plate, but paper and ink. Modern technology can also make acoustic, optical, electrical simulation, computer simulation and so on.