A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. –-Wittgenstein – Philosophical Investigations.

Positive assertions such as “FIRE BURNS” establish the “localness” of actions and developments, as in the DOUBLE ERROR combination of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  It is a DOUBLE ERROR, as Nietzsche points out, because NAMING imputes LOCAL thing-in-itself BEING (an abstraction which is not supported by sense-experience reality) and GRAMMAR is a device by which we impute the power of SOURCING actions and developments to the NAMING-instantiated LOCAL thing-in-itself BEING.  What began as TRANSFORMATION as in seasonal desiccating of the vegetation-laden landscape and its breaking out in a rash of lightning-ignited patches of combusting vegetation, is REDUCED, thanks to the DOUBLE ERROR, to a NUMBER of LOCAL FIRES that ‘are BURNING’.

To say that FIRE BURNS or that LIGHTNING FLASHES or that I GROW is a DOUBLE ERROR as Nietzsche has pointed out which imputes LOCAL BEING based SOURCING of actions and development, abstract constructions that we SUBSTITUTE for the relational transformation we experience inclusion in.  Notice how TRANSFORMATION which is INTRINSICALLY “NONLOCAL” and thus INEFFABLE is replaced by the abstract “LOCAL” and thus EFFABLE by the employing of the DOUBLE ERROR of language and grammar.

“I AM GROWING” is an effective “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENT LOCAL BEING” that ABSTRACTLY (in our intellectual constructing of reality) SPLITS US OUT OF the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM and GRAMMATICALLY endows us (in the intellectual constructions of our mind) with our own LOCAL powers of actions and development.  Within this DOUBLE ERROR, not only do we make ourselves out to be LOCAL and INDEPENDENT BEINGS, we make ourselves out as having our own POWERS of LOCAL SELF-SOURCING of actions and development.

Nietzsche delves into this as follows in ‘The Will to Power’;

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