Hello ToK Society,

From a Formistic perspective, I was wondering about some (at least, "rough") correspondence between the ToK and the four World Hypotheses.

Insofar that a root metaphor can be conceived of as a symbol, then Pepper's four World Hypotheses can be thought of as Justification Systems operating on those symbolic root metaphors.

Furthermore, each of those root metaphors would seem to roughly correspond with each of the ToK's dimensions of complexity:

Culture: "historic event" --> Contextualism
Mind: "similarity" ---> Formism
Life: "organism" ---> Organicism
Matter: "machine" --> Mechanism

Thoughts?
Jason Bessey  

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