Approaching an unknown

The start of any good approach to an unknown is to divide it into fourths and handle known variables as x and y values based upon allowing a number to represent a quantity and to have that quantity placed at a corresponding distance from a zero point along a numbered line.

This quadrant approach itself can be proprioceptive, meaning that our own sense of our body's orientation in space serve in a translational logic where the x axis serves as a left and right, the y axis determines up and down, and 0,0 becomes the center, the mind's I. But I think that concedes too much, so let's forget it.

The quadrant approach allows known, defined, and seemingly related variables to define an imaginary space, which lets the distance between intersecting variables also to represent meaningful difference.

The quadrant approach also demonstrates a shape, which contains a dialectic. The x and y axes and their corresponding 0 positions serve as both a visual and mathematical division of what are presumably 'quantities' of phenomena into characteristically different 'units' of phenomena, that is 'things with different names' More importantly, as they're placed along a continuum their common numerical property reveal a central definition of a dialectic--that is, two objects defined by their difference from one another.

Now, the nature of differences vary. And handling phenomena as numerical quantities may suggest that an architectonic feature of varying quantities of sameness and difference may 'saturate' or 'dilute' an entity, making it one of many objects or their transitional artifacts.