Writing

This Master’s dissertation develops a metaphysics of inscription to explain the unity and character of Jacques Ellul’s Technique. Drawing on Bruno Latour, Gilbert Simondon, Jack Goody, and others, it argues that texts, images, maps, codes, and drawings constitute a manipulable technical universe and cultivate an allocentric “view from nowhere.”

The essay compares Aristotelian and Jain logic through their governing image schemas. Aristotle’s predication is read through containment; Jain anekāntavāda through many-sidedness, including standpoint theory and conditional predication. It argues that these metaphors organise different inferential possibilities rather than decorating equivalent systems. The comparison is tested against vagueness and wave–particle duality to show what each logic reveals and conceals.