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The cube —— is a metaphor for worlds, for how each world takes all things differently. The cube can be seen in different ways.
Yet, importantly, the image of the cube, an image for divergent takes on things, emerges from one particular take on things. It comes from within our world. And so, to be accurate, it should (but does not) enfold back on itself.
— Though this is saying too much.
The cube is my form of Wittgenstein’s ladder: “My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he [sic] has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them.”[1]
[1] Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1921, 1961), §6.54, p. 89.