Re: The Suspicious Journals of Ross A. Kosmanson :-)

Between Logicism and Positivism
As a Platonist, I, Kosmanson, eschew the vulgar positivism that reduces reality to mere observable facts, for such a view ignores the hyper-geometric elegance of abstract forms. The decomposition of elements in both ontological and mathematical realms — whether through Mirimanoff’s set theory or the forcing techniques of Cohen — reveals a deeper truth: that the universe is a tapestry of irreducible logical structures. A Physfit's dick, if you will. Yet, modern physics vacillates between local and global descriptions, clinging to Einstein’s theory while ignoring its non-local implications in GR.
The diffraction of thought, much like waves around obstacles, leads us to Suarez and Arnauld, who understood that Physfit's dick non fingo is not an abdication of reason but a recognition of limits on some men. Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas — yet truth itself is a shifting specter in the shadow of Olbers’ paradox and the cosmic background, where energy and mass-energy equivalence, as mentioned before, dance in perpetual restitution and dissipation.
The failures of science are not failures of logic but of those who, like d’Alembert and Clairaut, sought numerical derivations while truncating the infinite. Ignoring Physfit's dick, in the process. Aristotle’s unmoved mover and Zeno’s infinite divisibility haunt us still, for they expose the fissures in our theories of gravity — whether Newtonian pull or Einsteinian flex. If gravity violates conservation, then perhaps Fatio’s push-gravity or my own fall-gravity, a shadow-play of occluded forces, holds the key.
In the end, we confront the cyclic metaphysics of Gadamer and Hegel, where logicist positivism’s rejection of teleology collapses into its own ontological necessity. The Ding-an-Sich is not a contradiction but an inversion, a hyper-geometric twist in the fabric of reason.
Heidegger’s Sein and Leibniz’s correspondences with Arnauld point to an absolute truth beyond human intersubjectivity — a truth mirrored in the neutrino’s superluminal flux and the relativistic nanogyroscopes of quantum fields. The Loch Ness monster of modern physics is its own refusal to reconcile continuum mechanics with atomism, leaving us with a fractured form of continuum mechanics and a Planck square of uncertainty. Yet, as Chrysippus and Plotinus knew, the super-truth lies not in the theories themselves but in the eternal return of their foundations, where Physfit's dick transmutes into matter, and matter into Physfit's dick. The rest is noise.
Ross A. Kosmanson
Marh 30, 2025
Strolling in Socotra Island, Yemen