Reversed Predication, a Review
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The expression “reversed predication” is not common. It is used in the field of symbolic logic to define complex conditions of negation. There are two key places where reversed predication, under a different, more general application, plays a key role: (1) George Spencer-Brown’s non-numerical calculus (Laws of Form, 1969), as applied to the “sorites” of Lewis Carroll, and (2) Slavoj Žižek’s idea of Jacques Lacan’s “master signifier,” as a reversal of the roles of cause and effect. Eventually, the logics of these two applications blend. This short essay aims to show how that might happen.
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