Philosophy is the Unborn Child of Science: Looking for a Universal Common Language. Философия – это нерожденное дитя науки: в поисках универсального общеупотребительного языка - страница 2
Examples of comparative concepts of orthogonal form
In addition to these kinds can be identified specifically-scientific comparative concepts of additional and similar type1.
The language of specifically-scientific comparative concepts is the most optimal variant of the scientific language suitable for unambiguous expression of meanings.
To the same extent, it can be used in both Natural sciences and Humanities. And although the specifically-scientific comparative concepts of different types are still not collected into separate groups, but it is safe to say that the use of these thinking instruments has excluded the ambiguity in the natural scientific knowledge and as a consequence led to their rapid development. Hence appeared the split between social-humanitarian and natural scientific knowledge, which can be overcome only by the use of specifically-scientific comparative concepts in the Humanities.
The transition from intellect and reason to wisdom is carried out at the expense of the third type of thinking instruments – specifically-universal comparative concepts of different types. The simplest of them are «four types of opposition» coming from Aristotle, as the author of «Metaphysics" called comparative concepts2.
Forming from these concepts the Matrix as the embryo of the future universal philosophical language, we find objective points of view, which are equal for all, which leads not only to an understanding of the original natural and social relations, but also to the beginning of mutual understanding.
Figure 1. Aristotelian Matrix in our performance
Continuing along the same path, we find two more complex concepts of Pythagoras and Heraclitus, as well as in modern natural Sciences, and supplement the Matrix with them. So there is a formation of a cumulative number of concrete-universal comparative concepts, starting with an abstract identity and ending with an abstract difference.
Figure 2. The cumulative number of comparative concepts
Continuing to go the same way, we supplement this series with other, even more complex concrete-universal comparative concepts that reveal the idea of «philosophical theory of everything».
Figure 3. Philosophical «Theory of Everything’
Specifically-scientific and specifically-universal comparative concepts of different types, raise the intellectual thinking two levels higher, that is, to the level of reason and the level of wisdom, understood in no other way, than «the knowledge of the universal».