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Topological Ontology and Logic of Qualitative quantity

Qualitative quantity and BFO (Basic Formal Ontology) of /Barry Smith/ and YAMATO (Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology) of /Riichiro Mizoguchi/

Qualitative quantity and BFO (Basic Formal Ontology) of /Barry Smith/ and YAMATO (Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology) of /Riichiro Mizoguchi/

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Deleuze stresses out that space is like the topological figure origami – “the world can be<br />

(un)folded in counless ways, with innumerable follds over folds. (Deleuze). Folds are<br />

everywhere, <strong>and</strong> space is folded in many ways into the manyfolds. The folding <strong>and</strong><br />

unfloding <strong>of</strong> space becomes an evemt. Places are spatio-temporal events.<br />

Zygmunt Bauman’s Origami <strong>of</strong> Modernity presents the human many folds <strong>of</strong> sociality.<br />

There is always dihotomy <strong>of</strong> folds between the categories used by Bauman. These folds are<br />

Bauman’s metaphors designed usually in pairs – solid <strong>and</strong> liquid, hard <strong>and</strong> s<strong>of</strong>t, power <strong>and</strong><br />

politics … etc.<br />

It is important to highlight the fact that in Bauman’s conceptualizations these pairs are not<br />

opposed at all. There are not constructions build over the axis <strong>of</strong> versus in plane linear<br />

thinking.<br />

In Bauman we are dealing not with “solid vs. liquid”, but with the proposition <strong>of</strong> the<br />

betweenness. In Bauman’s texts the frequent uses <strong>of</strong> “between” is presented.<br />

Here is the same category <strong>of</strong> “betweenness” which is directing us to the topology.<br />

Probably in the near future we may see how Zygmunt Bauman’s concept <strong>of</strong> Liquid<br />

Modernity <strong>and</strong> his method <strong>of</strong> sociological hermeneutics will enhance the idea <strong>of</strong> Liquid<br />

Modern Sociality through the topological approach to sociality based on the antrophological<br />

methodology <strong>and</strong> sociology <strong>of</strong> associations what is itself Actor-Network Theory.<br />

Let us return back to the beginning <strong>of</strong> this paper <strong>and</strong> the term “topological ontology” <strong>and</strong><br />

approach the domain <strong>of</strong> Huserls’s phenomenology <strong>and</strong> ontology trough the philosophy <strong>of</strong><br />

Alfred Schutz who more than any other phenomenologist, attempted to relate the thought <strong>of</strong><br />

Edmund Husserl to the social world <strong>and</strong> the social sciences. His “Phenomenology <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Social World” supplied philosophical foundations for Max Weber's sociology <strong>and</strong> for<br />

economics. Could we see the topological moments in the Schutz’s Phenomenology <strong>of</strong> the Social<br />

World. Is it possible a topological approach to the phenomenology <strong>of</strong> the social world <strong>and</strong><br />

ontological construction <strong>of</strong> lifeworld<br />

In Schutz’s “Phenomenology <strong>of</strong> the Social World”, we may find “Part 7.4 World Within My<br />

Reach <strong>and</strong> <strong>Topological</strong> Organization” [195(2)].<br />

According to Schutz, there are four divisions <strong>of</strong> the lifeworld, that has been called 'the crux<br />

<strong>of</strong> Schütz's theoretical contribution. Can we use topology (topological philosophy or<br />

philosophical topology) to underst<strong>and</strong> Schutz’s idea <strong>of</strong> sharing “with me a community <strong>of</strong><br />

space <strong>and</strong> a community <strong>of</strong> time” Could we see the structure <strong>of</strong> the Lifeworld as topological<br />

structure <strong>and</strong> Schutz’s theory <strong>of</strong> relevance as topological homology<br />

<strong>Topological</strong> Trace in Levinas Trace …<br />

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