Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 216, the Point of Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

12 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 216, the Point of Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

My original point in discussing the means to know (or prove) truth was to show you how to provide credibility to those ideas you want to express as truth in your novels.  Likewise, if you wish to express an untruth, you can use the opposites to show untruth.  The supporting concept is "other's conversation," but any of the primary means of revelation will work.

Let's see how this works.  Speaking specifically about other's conversation as a revelation method.  If I am writing about a scientific subject, I could easily bring up a scientific method process or proof to make my point.  With a vampire as a protagonist, I could bring up in conversation the fact that when she was examined at a hospital, her blood was unusual.  A blood test would represent a sample compared to a standard.  The standard represents the use of the scientific method to develop a repeatable blood test for normal blood--it won't work properly on blood that isn't normal.

In this same example, the fact the vampire has unusually large incisors, a very low body temperature, an oddly pointed tongue, and perhaps some other strange characteristics would be the use of the legal-historical method to document unique characteristics. 

The discussion by the individuals in the conversation would then possibly use logic to define the being who was examined.  You can imagine the logical arguments presented to bring about some degree of understanding about the person who was examined.  There is also the ability to dissuade or misdirect the understanding of the observers (and readers) in a similar manner.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 215, more Proof Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

11 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 215, more Proof Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

I hope you realize that the major purpose of philosophy into the early 20th Century was to prove God.  Almost every proof was based on this as an argument.  The big problem is that you can't prove a true, you can only prove a not true.  If you remember your Geometry, you will remember this very important dictum--you can prove it in logic.  The proof of God was resolved with Kant.  Kant's proof of not true that proves the true of a God is perfect and has not been refuted.  This is one of the reasons modern philosophy gave up on the proof of God--it was proved (in favor of God).  In the other hand, modern philosophy has given up over 10,000 years of human thought to conclude (without proof) that God is dead--because they say so.

In any case, the major use of logic, beyond, and with mathematics was to prove sticky things that could not be directly measured in the physical world--like the existence of God.  The ultimate focus of this is the way to prove and know truth for yourself and in your novels. 

So, if you intend to prove a repeatable event in your novel--use the scientific method.  If you want to prove a non-repeatable event--use the legal-historical method.  If you are looking at mathematics, classic philosophy (as opposed to Greek philosophy), and ideas outside of the physical world--use logic.  You can additionally use logic for ideas within the physical world, but not provable by other means--for example, inductive and deductive reasoning (think Sherlock Holms) are both types of logic.  The key is the ability of the author to present truth to her readers in the most appropriate and correct fashion and to not use the wrong means (unless it is intentional).  We'll discuss this next.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 214, Proof Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

10 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 214, Proof Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

Logic, in the eyes of the Greeks was the only means to see past the physical world into the rest of the Philosophia.  The Philosophia includes: thoughts, mathematics, emotions, spiritual stuff, gods, God, spirits--anything that couldn't be empirically known in the physical world.  Before you discount the ideas of the Greeks, realize that there are things outside the physical world which are true and do exist: mathematics, thoughts, emotions, etc.  In the mind of the Greeks, the spiritual and the gods were on the same level as thoughts and emotions.  In fact, the Greeks called thoughts, psuche, autonomic breath (the unconscious breathing), because, in their world view, a person never stopped thinking.  They called the spirit, pneuma, the conscious breath, because free will was the spiritual conception of a person.  A human was sarx (flesh), psuche, and pneuma.  In general, this is the view of almost every non-atheist in the world.  If you are an atheist, logic can't hurt you, but if you are not an atheist logic can indeed be used to prove the spiritual.

Prove the spiritual--what do I mean by that?  We aren't talking about ghosts, but rather about things that exist but that can't be measured or proven empirically.  Everywhere you go, you hear people who aren't very well educated yammering about empirical proof.  Well, thoughts and emotions are not governed by empirical proof.  Workload is hard to measure too, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.  In general, empirical means you must use the scientific method to evaluate it.  I already showed that the scientific method can only work on repeatable events.  You need the legal-historical method to prove non-repeatable events.  And here is the rub, empiricism is nothing but rubbish without logic and mathematics, and logic and mathematics are especially about non-empirical events and solutions. 

The point logic is the premier tool in the evaluation of the world because it allows us to look deeper than the physical.  The logical proof is the context for the author in developing truth.  This is what we've been looking forward to in the first place.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 213, still more Thoughts and Emotions Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

9 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 213, still more Thoughts and Emotions Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

If you can determine what a person is thinking through their actions and response, then can you see other hidden things in the world?  The Greek answer is--yes.  They concluded that if you can use logic to see into the minds and motivations of people, then you could use logic to see into the hidden parts of the universe.  The Greek view of the world is a little different than our own.

Greeks started with the plenum of everything and within it placed the Kosmos.  The Kosmos was the created universe.  They weren't certain who or what created the universe, but the Kosmos was part of it.  Within the Kosmos was the Philosophia.  The Philosophia is a little different than our view of philosophy. Philosophy to the Greeks did not mean "love of knowledge."  It was something else.  Phileo is the love humans can have--the love of man.  Sophia is "what is knowable."  Philosophia is the bounded universe that humans can understand.  Within the Philosophia is the physical world.  Thus, in the Greek mind, the physical world can be understood with science (empiricism) and legal-historical methods, but everything outside of the physical world, but within Philosophia requires logic.  Thus, both their and our view of logic and philosophy. 

To the Greeks philosophy includes the study of the physical world, but it also includes the study of everything that humans can know.  Logic was required to exceed the bounds of the physical world's understanding.  Thus, the Greeks believed they could use logic to understand about the gods and then God.  They used logic to define gods and God.  They used logic to delve into the mysteries of the universe.  They used logic to develop mathematics--actually geometry.  Logic, in the eyes of the Greeks was the only means to see past the physical world into the rest of the Philosophia.  
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 212, more Thoughts and Emotions Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

8 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 212, more Thoughts and Emotions Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

The ancient Greeks recognized that you can't ever know a person's truth thoughts or emotions.  Even if a person told you they were happy, they could be lying.  Even if a person told you they would do something, they could be lying.  The scientific method and the legal-historical method can't help us with thoughts and emotions.  You can't ever trust a person to accurately report what they are thinking or what they are feeling.  This was especially important in the culture of the ancient Greeks because they lived in a culture that encouraged ambivalence and hubris.  To the Greeks, knowing the truth was paramount, but their society was strongly based on not telling the absolute truth.  They believed that logic could give them insight into the thoughts and feelings of others.

You recognize that too--it is a concept I write about in this blog all the time.  When words, appearance,  and actions don't match, you recognize there is a problem between a person's thoughts and feelings and reality.  If a man says he loves you and then abuses you, you should recognize there is a disconnect between his thoughts and actions.  This is where the Greeks would bring logic into play.  First define the terms.  Unconditional love means placing the happiness and comfort of one before the other.  Abuse means saying untruthful things or using force to get your way.  Second, assumptions.  If the person being evaluated is usually truthful, you might assume they are telling the truth.  On the other hand, if the person is routinely untruthful, you might assume they are lying.  Third, produce the proof.  An easy one is this: the man says he has unconditional love, but when he comes home every night he beats me.  The logical conclusion is easy--the man is lying.  A harder one is this: the man says he has unconditional love for me, but he says unkind things to me.  What are the unkind things--do they constitute abuse?  For example, if the man says, I don't like your toga.  Is that abuse?  I think not--that is simply a comment that might be true.  On the other hand constant berating about something could constitute abuse--especially if it is not true.  The house is clean, but the man constantly harps on how unclean it is.  Conclusion--the man is lying.

The Greeks believed they could take any circumstance and though logical proof determine the truth or falsehood of the event.  There is much more to this.  
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 211, Thoughts and Emotions Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

7 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 211, Thoughts and Emotions Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

Thoughts and emotions are part of the real world, but not part of the physical world.  No one can empirically know thoughts or emotions--yet.  Science is still working at trying to decode thoughts and emotions from the mind.  Will they succeed?  Who knows?  The ancients quickly grasped that you can't ever know another's thoughts or emotions.  The reason should be obvious.  Even if you tell me, you are sad.  How do I know you aren't lying to me.  If you tell me your thoughts, how do I know you are telling the truth.  All thoughts and emotions are hidden in the mind of the owner.  You might ask: are thoughts are emotions real?  The ancient Greeks concluded that thoughts were part of psuche (spirit) and emotions part of sarx (flesh).  They called emotions pathos (fate) and the thoughts a part of the human mind.  They also acknowledged the human pnuma (eternal spirit).  Their view of the human being was a little more complex than this, but this is good enough for our investigation.

The ancient Greeks noted that thoughts and emotions can't be known except through logic.  Thoughts, emotions, and the connection to the gods are hidden in the body.  They do not reside in the physical world.  They can only be approached through logic.  You might ask, how can we use logic to know thoughts and emotions?  Now is the time to get out your Socrates.  Socrates used dialog to tease out philosophical ideas (the connections to the gods and the world).  The Greeks thought that you could use logic (dialog--logical argument) to know thoughts, emotions, and philosophical ideas.  I am calling philosophical ideas the connection to the gods because the Greeks loosely conceived that the pneuma (eternal spirit) in a person could be understood in the same way emotions and thoughts could be understood.  Thus, Socrates' dialogs were used to understand through logic the connections of humans to the real world that could not be seen empirically (physically). 

To understand how this works, I'll describe how the Greeks thought you could know emotions and thoughts through logic.           
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 210, Zeno Logical Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

6 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 210, Zeno Logical Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

Let's look at some logical proofs from the ancient world.  One of the most famous is Zeno's paradox.  Zeno proposed this paradox.  If you are going to Athens, you must first travel half the distance, but you must travel half that distance, and you must travel half that distance so on and on.  Ultimately, the question is how can you move at all?  The answer, we know today is found in the integration of an infinite asymptotic equation.  The area under the curve is a finite real number.  This provides a mathematical solution to a very old paradox.  The mathematical solution wasn't possible until the invention of integration by Sir Roger Newton.  The only real solution to the problem is logical that is mathematical. 

The ancients realized there were solutions in logic that must be solvable--in fact, they solved quite a few of them.  One of the greatest solutions was the geometric solution (proof) called the Pythagorean Theorem.  We don't know how the Greeks solved it without algebra--they did.  We are not certain how the Egyptians solved Pi geometrically--they did.  The point is that logic allows the solution of problems that can't be solved in the physical world.  This was the huge jump in philosophical thinking in the ancient world that led first to mystereum and then to Gnosticism.  This huge jump led to the realization that logic could be used to solve other problems in the real world that can't be solved in the physical world.  The easiest of these problems are thoughts and emotions.           
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 209, more Logical Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

5 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 209, more Logical Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My editor sent a round of emails last night concerning the back cover materials.  That included the book teaser and the author bio.  They looked good.  They also sent the covers for the individual novels.  I'll put up the covers when I can.  The proposed 3 in1 cover and info can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  I'll keep you updated.  I should have three new books out soon.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

A mathematical proof is used to see something that can't be proven or shown directly in the physical world.  I can, for example, demonstrate simple math physically.  In the ancient world, the number you used for infinity (or a lot) was based entirely on the number of fingers and toes you had available to count--certainly not a proof of anything, but a concrete use of math in the world.  So, in a barter culture, I can count to forty.  Thus, the Hebrews used the euphemism forty days and forty nights to relate a long period of time.  In a barter culture that requires a priest for transactions, like the Babylonian culture, I have three people, each with twenty fingers and toes available, thus I can count to sixty.  Therefore, the Babylonians based their numerical system of timekeeping for the sacrifices on base sixty--sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour.  The Egyptians invented the 24 hour in a day scale--that had little to do with fingers and toes and much to do with ten hours of darkness, ten hours of light, and one hour of twilight between them.  Kind of interesting that the number of hours was defined by the twilight time.  In any case, real math, as compared to theoretical math quickly became a problem.  The first problem was Pi.

Why is Pi a problem?  The circumference of a unit circle equals a non-repeating number that can't be represented by a fraction--it is an irrational number.  Did you get that?  Pi is an irrational number--it can't be represented mathematically; therefore, we use a symbol--the Greek letter Pi.  The Egyptians had fractions.  Pi was a big deal to them.  They got it and in the minds of the Egyptians and the Greek Osiran Mystereum, Pi was a wonder.  It was a piece of the real world that represented the spiritual.  The reason it represented the spiritual is that it could not be represented by anything in the real world.  It was a critical number, but you couldn't write it.  If you think back to your math studies, you know there are more numbers like this.  To the ancients, numbers like Pi pointed to the reality of mathematics, and especially mathematical proofs, as a means to prove concepts outside of the physical world.  Well look at some of these proofs (like Zeno).       
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 208, Logical Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

4 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 208, Logical Proof and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My editor sent a round of emails last night concerning the back cover materials.  That included the book teaser and the author bio.  They looked good.  They also sent the covers for the individual novels.  I'll put up the covers when I can.  The proposed 3 in1 cover and info can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  I'll keep you updated.  I should have three new books out soon.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

If you remember the mathematical proofs you had to do in geometry, you know how to develop a logical proof.  You start with definitions.  It looks like this:

1.  Define the terms
2.  State assumptions
3.  Produce proof
4.  Logical conclusion

In a mathematical proof, you would work it like this.  I define a, b, and c as objects from a set of same objects.  I define the concept of equal as identity: a=a means a is the same as itself--it is equal to itself.  We assume that a, b, and c exist and that they are not the same thing.  There are also some other assumptions that are very basic.  The proof is if a=b and b=c.  The logical conclusion is a=c.  Pretty simple is it not.  This is a mathematical proof that is very simple.  If you remember back to geometry, this was the entire basis of geometry.  This is also the basis of all of mathematics.  We use the conclusions of mathematical proofs to accomplish addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, derivations, integration, all of algebra, and all.  Everything in mathematics is based in mathematical proof and therefore logic.  Logic is the basis for it all.

The reality or perhaps unreality of mathematics really begins with irrational numbers and numbers in the irrational plane.  This is the first place most people begin to realize that math isn't about reality at all.  Irrational number and operations in irrational numbers should begin to show how far math is from any reality.  Although we imagine math is real, nothing in the physical world can begin to match the perfection of mathematics.  This is why the Greeks literally worshiped mathematics in their Mysteriums.  At least two Mysteriums were based in geometric proofs and there may have been more.  The Pythagoreans were founded by Pythagoras--his mystery was the Pythagorean Theorem in a geometric form.  How they did it, we don't know, but that was the mystery of their Mysterium.  Likewise the mystery of the Osirus Mysterium was Pi (the number).  They used some geometric means to display the mystery that we don't know today.  In any case, these people were using mathematical logic and proofs to show, in their minds, an impossible part of the physical world--that is a piece of the real world that was not part of the physical world.  It was a glimpse into the world humans normally couldn't see.   
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 207, more Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

3 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 207, more Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My editor sent a round of emails last night concerning the back cover materials.  That included the book teaser and the author bio.  They looked good.  They also sent the covers for the individual novels.  I'll put up the covers when I can.  The proposed 3 in1 cover and info can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  I'll keep you updated.  I should have three new books out soon.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

The main purpose for logic is mathematics.  Mathematics is a subject that is not part of the empirical world.  Mathematics can't be proven using the scientific method.  Mathematics is not repeatable in the sense that an experiment is repeatable.  In fact, mathematics does not exist in the physical world.  You might say, I use math to calculate or count things all the time.  That is true, an engineer uses mathematics all the time too, but most engineering comes out of bound equations.  If an equation isn't bound in the physical world, it can't be solved.  Engineers bound math so the problems can be solved.  Then they figure out how accurate the bounding was or wasn't. 

Let me try to explain it like this.  You should know that addition is set theory.  In set theory, you bound the input and the solution sets to add things together.  The set of apples for example.  Apples can be a set, but what is an apple.  If I define an apple, I can define the set.  Unfortunately all apples are different.  I could define a set as fruit, but do you get the point.  A mathematical set and a real world set are tow different animals.  We use mathematics as an analog in the real world, but mathematics, especially at higher levels is all about logic and not the physical world. 

If you remember back to the first mathematical proof you were given as an example--it was likely if a=b and b=c, then a=c.  Do you remember that--this is logic and logic in mathematics.  This is the basis of all proof in mathematics--not just that principle, but the concept of a logical argument.  Logic is used to prove mathematics.  Mathematics is a concept outside the physical world.  Logic defines mathematics. 
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 206, Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

2 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 206, Logic and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My editor sent a round of emails last night concerning the back cover materials.  That included the book teaser and the author bio.  They looked good.  They also sent the covers for the individual novels.  I'll put up the covers when I can.  The proposed 3 in1 cover and info can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  I'll keep you updated.  I should have three new books out soon.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

Time to look at logic.  The word "logic" refers to two types of study: rhetorical logic and philosophical logic.  We are not talking about rhetorical logic.  I don't want to get into a huge fur-ball about the different types of logic, but suffice to say, if you took a course in logic, you most likely studied rhetorical logic.  Rhetorical logic is how to evaluate sentences in a language to not their rhetorical correctness.  This is not the kind of logic I mean when I write of a tool to know truth.  If you took a course in mathematical logic, you are coming closer to the idea of "logic."  For the record, rhetorical logic comes out of the philosophical logic.

Philosophical logic is the structured use of thinking to prove a truth (or a falsehood).  Where the scientific method can only be used on repeatable events in the physical world, and the legal-historical method is used to document non-repeatable events in the physical world, logic can be used to understand both events and concepts in the physical (empirical world) and outside the empirical world.  I know if you are steeped in empiricism, you won't immediately understand what I am writing about, but there are events and concepts in the real world that are not in the physical world.  Before you get all worked up, think very carefully about this.  One perfect example of concepts that are not reflected the physical world are emotions and thought.  For example, what are you thinking?  I have no idea what another person is really thinking, and I will never know.  A person can always lie.  People routinely lie about their emotions.  They might smile directly to your face while wanting to kill you.  Don't you have emotions or thoughts you would never act on and that you would never want another person to know?  Thoughts and emotions are real--they are part of the real world, but the scientific method doesn't work on them very well (the events are not usually repeatable), and the legal-historical method documents--if a person says they are happy, but they are dying inside, history records "happy."  To a degree, logic can be used to determine thoughts and emotions, but logic has a much more powerful role.     
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 205, more Gnosticism, Legal-Historical Method and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

1 November 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 205, more Gnosticism, Legal-Historical Method and Other's Conversation, Methods of Revelation How to Develop Storyline, Rising Action

Announcement: My editor sent a round of emails last night concerning the back cover materials.  That included the book teaser and the author bio.  They looked good.  They also sent the covers for the individual novels.  I'll put up the covers when I can.  The proposed 3 in1 cover and info can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  I'll keep you updated.  I should have three new books out soon.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: An agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

The purpose of a novel is to reveal the protagonist and usually the protagonist's helper, the author needs to place them in circumstance that allows them to reveal themselves.  The means can be conversation, exploration, discovery, other's conversation, confession, accidental discovery.

There are three ways to know truth: the scientific method, the historical-witness method, and logic. The three tests used for all documentary evidence in history are: the bibliographical test, the internal test, and the external test.  Let's see how we can use these tests. 

The way people think about the world is rooted in their religious (spiritual) view of the world--no kidding.  There are four stages in religious thinking (religions):
1.  Animism - gods in everything, man is fated
2.  Pantheonic Paganism - gods rule certain things and both man and god are fated
3.  Mysterium - gods rule and man can know god through rituals and education
4.  Gnosticism - god is there and man can be like him through knowledge

During the Age of Reason, the question of the day was empiricism verses logic.  Those on the side of logic argued that logic alone could be used to describe the universe.  Those on the side of empiricism argued that empiricism alone could be used to describe the universe.  The question was deeper than that however.  We haven't looked at logic--yet.  We will.  Using logic, I can describe and understand things that both exist and don't exist in physical reality.  Mathematics is an example of a subject that is governed by logic and does not exist in physical reality.  I'll explain how when we get to logic.  Be that as it may, empiricism can only be used to look at subjects (things) that are physically real.  The real battle during the Age of Reason was between the reality of the physical world that can only be described through empiricism and the real world that requires both logic and empiricism.  Both sides were wrong, but the wrong side won.

Because the empiricists won, we entered the Age of Enlightenment with a prejudice against logic and anything that couldn't be proven by empiricism.  Thus, Thomas Jefferson, because he was an empiricist couldn't imagine the Gospels with miracles and wrote his own version with the miracles expunged.  Thomas Jefferson was a logical man, and he understood the legal-historical method--his prejudice did not allow him to conceive of anything outside of the empirical universe.  This mindset has permeated the modern world--so much to the point that people unintelligently require empirical evidence for everything.  Unfortunately, there can't be empirical evidence for anything that can't be repeated.  I can only apply empiricism on events and subjects that can be proven using the scientific method.  The scientific method only works for repeatable events.  You must use the legal-historical method for events and subjects that can't be repeated.  In other words empirical proof must take into account the legal-historical method.  There is another important tool to know truth--it is logic.       
 
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com