theirreverentconcubine
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You could regard Set as a symbol, a concept, a Jungian archetype, a kind of specific system dynamics (or more esoteric: a "force" or "energy").
How about this? Kant's underlying notion is that man, as an autonomous free being, fills the vacuum left by the analysis of pure theoretical reason and that this freedom offers a vista into the world of noumena, in which the things-in-themselves exist. The empty set is a thing-in-itself, is it not?
The quote is from this book I'm reading; from the forties, so I don't think anybody minds me borrowing it for a minute. I'm new to formal philosophy thus I could be misinterpreting Kant; although it makes a degree of sense in mathematical terms.
Thank you. Your explanation was wonderful, by the way. The ones I found on the internet were similar regarding Set, but what I found out about the Temple what rather discouraging. Seems the founder was a Satanist who didn't quite get past that particular limitation.