| 形式不憑實質，輒無存在之必要，故如以形式重於實質，不免於空泛。 | A form is unnecessary to exist without a substance, so the formalism is null. |
| 實質不依形式，輒無定義之可能，故如以實質重於形式，不免於浮動。 | A substance is impossible to be defined without a form, so the substantivism is void. |
| 是以形式若且唯若實質，乃當然之解釋。 | Thus, the form exists if and only if the substance exists, as a matter of course. |
| 又為邏輯之自洽，其等皆為時變函數，亦當然之結果。 | Moreover, for the purpose of logic consistence, they shall be time-variant functions, as a matter of course, either. |
| 所謂的資本，不是指資金，而是指生產工具。 | The term "capital", does not mean fund, but instrument of production. |
| 生產工具的益處，就是節省勞力。 | Instruments of production provide merit of labor-saving. |
| 如果一個人沒有任何生產工具，他就必須辛苦地採集、捕獵才能生存。 | If a person does not own any instrument of production, he must survives hard by collecting and hunting. |
| 如果一個人有了農地，他只需要播種，等待收成，就能輕鬆生存。當然，他可以耕耘，取得豐收。 | If a person owns a piece of farmland, he just sows, and waits for harvest, then he easily survives. Of course, he may till to get a bumper harvest. |
| 如果一個人有了耕耘機，他連耕耘的勞力也節省了，卻同樣取得豐收。 | If a person owns a tiller, he still gets a bumper harvest, while he saves his labor of tilling. |
| 此處，農地、耕耘機，就是典型的資本。 | Here, the farmland and the tiller are classical instruments of production. |
| 節省勞力，就是人類進步的所在。 | Labor-saving is regarded as a kind of human progress. |
| 可是，這在資本主義下，只是假象。 | However, this is an illusion in Capitalism. |
| 顯然，農地、耕耘機等生產工具，不是天上掉下來的禮物，而是透過「等價交易」取得的。 | Obviously, instruments of production such as the farmland and the tiller are not gifts from the heaven. We get them by "equivalent trading". |
| 在這樁交易中，生產工具的價值，恰好等於它所節省的勞力。 | In such a trade, the value of the instrument of production is exactly equal to the labor it saves. |
| 為了日後節省勞力，而事先墊付勞力，結果根本沒有節省勞力。人類毫無進步，反而繞了遠路。 | In order to save labor in future, we pay our labor in advance. In summary, there is no labor-saving. Human makes no progress, but a detour. |
| 只要處在資本主義的等價交易的制度下，這個結果就不會改變。 | Under Capitalism's equivalent trading system, we cannot change the result. |
| 所以馬克思才認為必須透過「暴力革命」，搶奪資本家的生產工具，交由全民共享。 | This is why Marx considered "violent revolution" to plunder the capitals from the capitalists to the community. |
| 這就是共產主義的起源。 | And this is the origin of communism. |
| 後設猜想既不討論，也不意圖討論發達資本的點子，或者更直白地，賺錢的門道。 | The Metahypotheses do neither discuss nor intent to discuss ideas of developing capital, or more straightforward, ways of making money. |
| 因為事物一旦進入資本主義的循環，就變得十分惱人，並且迅速凋亡。 | Because when a thing joins the circulation of Capitalism, it becomes annoying and decays quickly. |
| 如今，資本主義已經過於壯大，事物難逃其魔掌。它不斷將事物捲入其中，推擠、扭曲、壓榨、吸收、耗盡，猶如黑洞。 | Now, Capitalism has been too strong for things to escape from it. It keeps drawing things into it, pressing, distort, squeezing, absorbing and exhausting them, as what a black hole does. |
| 甚至，當既有的事物都耗盡後，它會創造新事物，以更新這個絕望的漩渦。 | Moreover, when all existing things are exhausted, it will create new things, to refresh this despairing vortex. |
| 因此，我將資本主義稱為：後設煩惱源。 | Thus, I call Capitalism: a meta anxiety source. |
| 「不得上訴於第三審法院。」是我自2015年起的口頭禪之一。 | "Not appealable to the court of third instance." is one of my pet phrases since 2015. |
| 這句話出自〈最高法院刑事判例69年台上字第2037號〉，它是我第一個接觸到的判例，因此刻骨銘心。 | The sentence originated from Supreme Court criminal precedent, 69th year, Tai Shang Zi No. 2037, which was the first precedent that I contacted with and thus impressive to me. |
| 其內涵在於：為了合理分配有限的司法資源，法律規定某幾種輕微案件不得上訴於第三審法院，至多兩審定讞。 | It means: for reasonably distributing the finite judicial resources, the laws prescribe that certain kinds of minor cases are not appealable to the court of third instance, and a definitive judgement will be given by no more than two instances. |
| 如此，當事人只剩下兩個審級可以平反，一個審級利益被法定剝奪了。 | As a result, the person involved in such cases can argue for his justice in only two instances, and one of his instance benefit is legally deprived. |
| 這顯示出了現實的殘酷。 | This shows the cruelty of the reality. |
| 顯然，東西必須存在，我們才可能分析它的色、聲、香、味、觸等本質。所以，存在先於本質[1]。 | Obviously, there must be a thing, so that we can analyze its kinds of essence, such as its form, sound, smell, taste or touch. Therefore, existence precedes essence. |
| 但是，東西必須發出色、聲、香、味、觸等本質，我們才可能發現它的存在。所以，本質先於存在。 | However, a thing must give off some kinds of essence, such as its form, sound, smell, taste or touch, so that we can discover its existence. Therefore, essence precedes existence. |
| 綜上所述，存在若且唯若本質。 | In summary, existence if only if essence. |
| [1] | 此為存在主義之主張。 | It is a claim of Existentialism. |
| 存在主義云者，不為他者而存在，專為自身而存在。 | Existentialism means not to exist for other, but to exist for self. |
| 學習之存在主義云者，以其準用，不為他者而學習，專為學習而學習。 | Existentialism of Study means, analogously, not to study for other, but to study for study. |
| 然為他者而學習一事之所謂他者，乃學習而得；復為他者而學習一事，亦學習而得，故一切學習當然學習之存在主義。 | However, the "other" in the action "to study for other" is known by study, while the action "to study for other" is also known by study. Thus, any study is of existentialism of study, of course. |
| 既學習而得學習之樂，自不外乎後設。 | Since it brings us the joy of study by study, it is certainly of meta. |
| 後設之抽象，非學習又不可得，如是堆疊，豈不偉哉？ | The abstraction of meta can be known only by study, and thereby do you see the grand stack of the metalayers? |
| 回到目錄《後設猜想篇章節》。 | Back to the menu, The Table of Content of The Metahypotheses. | ||
| 第1篇第2章第6節 | Volume.1, Chapter.2, Section.6 | ||
| 現象⊃個體⊃生物 | Phenomena⊃Individual⊃Creature | ||
| § 1 | 生命，係個體本徵函數在閔可夫斯基時空中之映射。 | A life is a map of an individual eigenfunction in Minkowski's spacetime. | |
| § 2 | I | 生物，係為前條映射之物。 | A creature is a thing making the map in the preceding article. |
| II | 生物，於開始為前條映射時出生；於終止為前條映射時死亡。 | A creature is born when start making the map in the preceding article; it is dead when stop making the map in the preceding article. | |
| § 3 | I | 中樞，係生物為自我之映射之一部。 | A central system is a part of a creature which making a map of a self. |
| II | 軀體，係生物除中樞外之一部。 | A body is the part of creature out of its central system. | |
| § 4 | 生物之軀體，除有下列情形之一者外，維持、重製或仿製該軀體：
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A creature's body maintains, reproduces or imitates said body, except in one of the following conditions:
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| § 5 | 維持、重製或仿製自我所得之結果均為仿製自我。 | Maintaining, reproducing or imitating a self only results in an imitated self. |
