Basic Operations
Mar 18, 2025
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Instances are the perceptions of unique identity.
The 4 Operations are:
-
Addition of Instances
-
Reduction of Instances
This is called subtraction in arithmetic
- Expansion of Instances
This is called multiplication
- Contraction of Instances
This is called division
All Arithmetic is composed of only four or five operations:
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Extraction of roots
The last can be considered as a type of Division.

Rene Descartes
Geometry
Francis Bacon Tables for Operations
Since flow is the highest action of the aether, and memory the lowest, we organize the instances into a table which the mind can flow along.
- Addition
+ |
1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
2 | 3 | 4 |
- Reduction
- |
1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
1 | 0 | 1 |
2 | -1 | 0 |
- Expansion
* |
1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | 2 | 4 |
3b. Self-Expansion (Exponents) in base 6
* |
2 | 4 | 12 |
---|---|---|---|
2 | 4 | 12 | 24 |
- Contraction (in base 6)
/ |
1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | 0.3 | 4 |