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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 | 14835 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

3. Maths and Geometry are the Systematization of Logical Constructs

Numbers, dots, lines, planes and bodies are not objects of the objective world, but symbols and logical constructs created by human being. People continued to construct and deduce these logical constructs, making them complicate and orderly in order to form subjects like maths and geometry. The content of these subjects is the systematic content of subjective logical constructs.

When human first created symbols, the purpose was to simulate the real things. Later, the symbols gradually developed, and the symbols themselves constituted a complex and orderly system. The process in which these symbols are processed and transformed by people's thought games often has nothing to do with the external things that were initially imitated. Maths and geometry are such systems of symbols. Points, lines, planes, and bodies can find their external counterparts at the beginning, but many of the geometry propositions they constitute have nothing to do with external things. Natural numbers can be said to be description of the number of external things, but the relationship between external things and decimal, fraction, irrational number, set, calculus and other mathematical content is becoming less and less.

Because maths and geometry played complex thought games in ancient times, and the products of these games were of great practical significance and were the basis of all human culture and civilization, these abstract concepts were much more important than concrete things. It makes sense for Plato to push the idea to a supreme position, and it makes sense that Plato and Objective Idealism enjoyed a high place in the history of philosophy. Today, we should correctly evaluate the value and defects of Idealism, at this basis, establish a new philosophical theory in which concepts replace ideas and Dialectical Dualism replace Objective Idealism.[12]

Ⅵ. Conclusion

All simulation is fake, all the concepts, all the logical constructs, all the innovations of the logical constructs coming from simulation, are fake. These fake things are simple, useful and stable. They are the main content of human civilization and culture. The ultimate goal of philosophy and science is not to pursue objectivity, but to pursue practical value and serve practice.