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 | 14761 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

According to Popper, the growth of knowledge depends largely on imaginative conjectural solution.[2] Therefore, our understanding of the objective world is not mainly simulation of the objective world, but the artificial creation and a variety of thought games. People create many logical constructs, such as point, line, plane, numbers, bit, predictions, plans, axioms and theorems, and so on. These logical constructs make up the objective world 2.

Some products of guess, assumptions, and thought games may have objective things corresponding to them, but usually we can't see them. There are a lot of micro-structures that we couldn't see before that we can see now. Many distant stars were never seen before, are now or will be seen in the future. But we can never see such as forces and chemical composition. We can only guess and assume, and their confirmation can only be indirect by logical confirmation. This logical proof can only prove that they are useful, but not objective.

A complex and orderly system of thought products that has nothing to do with the object being imitated can be a tool for man. These thought products come from people's guess, assumption and logical processing. These thought games can completely disregard the laws of the objective world and only obey the rules of the subjective world. Some of the thought products thus produced were of no value to human practice and life, so they were gradually abandoned. Some of them have value, so they are retained and spread, and then new thought processing make them into more complex and ordered systems. Human culture has been evolving through this constant selection and abandonment.

Ш. Logical Constructs

1. Meaning of Symbol and Logical Construct

Speaking and writing is a kind of practice governed by man's mind. When people use language or words to express their thought, there are logical relationships such as "and, not, or" between multiple sentences. The statements connected by these logical relationships are called logical constr