The Four Pillars

Four pillars underlie all that is: The and, the or, the "the,"  the "other".    While the and and the or are the two primordial forces, they would not operate without the "the" and the "other".  

We have already defined the "and" and the "or".  Similarly, the "the" and the "other" can be given somewhat amorphous definitions.  Both can represent any object or point in space, or space time, with the "the" generally serving as the protagonist.

 We can first say that the "the" and the "other" are the building blocks of space or spacetime as we experience.

Prior to the big bang, there was no other, just the "the" and the "and" holding the "the" together, causing the "the" to occupy an infinitely small point.   With the big bang, the "or" caused the "the" to separate from itself, giving birth to the "other", and to infinite "the"s and infinite others, and our modern space, or  spacetime as we currently know it, as well as motion.  

    With regard to motion,  the "and", along with the "the" and the "other" is operative in all motion insofar as all motion involves the "and" causing the "the" to merge with the "other".   Similarly, the "or" is operative in all motion insofar as in all motion, the "the" is moving away from itself, or its former point in spacetime,  thus giving rise to the "other."

We have already, in one of our earliest posts, said that the "and" and "or" form the building blocks of all the fundamental forces, such as the strong force, weak force, gravity and electro-magnetic force because all force is attractive, causing things to come together, or repulsive. But we left the "the" and the "other" out of the picture.   Attractive force, motivated by the "and", causes the "the" to merge with the "other".  Similarly, repulsive force, with the "or" as its building block, either causes the "the" to separate from itself, forming the "other", or the "the" to separate from the "other".

 The four pillars, as we have already said, underlie all language.  For all written language must consist of words, which in turn must consist of letters. And the "and" is responsible for joining two or more letters, one of which we may call the "the", with the other called the "other", into a word, or two words (which may both consist of "the"s, "ands" and "others" into a sentence.  And as we've already said, the "and" combines sentences into paragraphs, while the "or" separates letters, words, sentences and paragraphs from each other.

There is not a single thing, either in nature, history or thought, that does not have contain these four building blocks.