MODERN OCCAM`S RAZOR


DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2415-881x.2025.99.141-151

Orest Atamanchuk-Angel, Vadym Chuiko

Abstract


This article attempts to describe and explore phenomena using the languages of philosophy, theology, biology, mathematics, and more. It emphasizes that two formulas are considered equivalent if they represent the same function.
Based on formal statements, it has been shown that concepts such as Culture, Soul, Atman, God, and the Absolute can be meaningfully compared.
By contemplating the immaterial component of living cultural substance alongside theological, philosophical, and cultural studies terminology, one can approach a relative ontology — and through it, consider the meta-idea, physics, metaphysics, and the idea itself.
Additionally, it is established that the set of being |B| - what is present in the world at a given moment - is much smaller than the set of non-being |N|, |B| < |N|.
The intelligent human is one of the creators of the geo-, bio-, socio-, techno-, and noosphere. However, it is crucial to recognize that the creation or embodiment of an image involves ± entropy. And that responsibility is inevitable.
It is stressed that research and description are fully possible using any terminology, as long as it relies not on the truths of authority but on the authority of truth.
The development of “bird languages” can, on the one hand, be a way to resist the pressure of obscurantism, but on the other hand, risks drowning meaning in grandiloquent phrasing. The use of borrowed, “sophisticated” terms is often linked to authors' desire to give weight to otherwise empty declarations. Yet, to enhance understanding - and thus ensure quality learning, knowledge acquisition, and later the application and growth of that knowledge - it is not only appropriate but necessary to form designations for both existing and emerging concepts based on one's native language, whether it be German, English, Polish, French, or, naturally, Ukrainian.


Keywords


being; non-being; material; mental; physics; idea; metaphysics; metaidea

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