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0054 Am I suggesting that the cultural river2<\/sub> of ANE civilizations<\/em> is potentiated by God’s design1<\/sub> and intentions1<\/sub><\/em> in the normal context of divine mediation3<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If so, then the thing2<\/sub> that is the object of Lost World Inquiry<\/em> may be regarded as a “high-context mediation”… er…. “communication”.  The topics of reference (esse_ce) and affirmation (essence) are introduced here.  I have already covered them in point 0014.  The thing is not the text of Genesis 1-112,<\/sub> per se.  The form is the text of Genesis1-11<\/em> as substantiated by the matter of revelation1(?)<\/sub> and the cultural rivers of the ANE2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0055 A reader may ask, “What type of methodology is this?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the construction of the book under examination.<\/em>  There five sections: introduction (chapter 1), methods (2), results (3-8), discussion (9) and conclusion (10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0056 I ask, “What is the genre indicated by this construction?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, science comes to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of genre, <\/em>this book is a scientific publication<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the empirio-schematic judgment, a disciplinary language (relation<\/em>) brings mathematical and mechanical models (what ought to be<\/em>) into relation with observations and measurements of phenomena (what is<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0057 A reference is appropriate here.  Razie Mah derives the empirio-schematic and Positivist’s judgments in Looking at Jacques Maritain’s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy<\/em>.  The book is available for purchase at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the scientific publication<\/em> that is under examination, the disciplinary language<\/em> (relation)<\/em> includes expertise in the languages and cultures of the ANE<\/em>.  Walton, as a scientist, observes and measures, not only the Genesis text, but other literature of the ancient Near East (what is)<\/em>.  Finally, the hylomorphe of Lost World Inquiry<\/em> is the model (what ought to be)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0058 Now, hold onto your seat, because I am about to go off the rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can Aristotle’s hylomorphe<\/em> constitute a model<\/em> when the positivist intellect<\/em> rules out metaphysics?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The positivist intellect<\/em> is the relation<\/em> in the Positivist’s judgment.  Aristotle’s hylomorphe as matter [substantiating] form,<\/em> should not apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0059 This is where the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the 1960s through the 1980s, a loose confederation of academics, experts in Slavic languages and literature,<\/em>struggles with a mandate of the socialist regime of the USSR<\/em>.  All scientific inquiry<\/em> must conform to the fact that material arrangements substantiate human conditions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fact<\/em>… is really a doctrine<\/em>… I mean, a model<\/em>… that is, a thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0060 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0061 Does this imply that the hylomorphe of Walton’s Lost World Inquiry<\/em> is a fact<\/em>… a doctrine<\/em>… a model… and a thing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, read the section on methodology<\/em> and decide for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of Marxist materialism,<\/em> insert the hylomorphe of the Lost World Inquiry<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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