Ezumezu: The Trivalent Logic of Ìwà Metaphysics

In order for it to command universal appeal, I deduce two challenges in Ezumezu logic when applied outside its scope of meaning-making to relationship at the atomic level and offer solutions to them in order to be relevant for my metaphysical system. First, in conversational thinking, between notional solidarity and creative struggle as two ways that two ontological entities interact, the latter is favoured over the former because it is said to yield new ideas and increases our full sweep of knowledge. Whereas I concede that this outlook is valid in the context of interactions among complex ontological entities, I contend that it cannot be sustained in the context of simple ontological entities such as atoms and sub-atomic entities where ‘notional solidarity’ may sometime lead to increase in knowledge. If this challenge is not addressed, the second challenge surfaces—the benoke—the point where entities, after engaging in interactions, retain their individual identities since in Ezumezu, synthesis is anathemaanathema. But entities at the atomic level display synthesis and most times do not retain their individual identities. To overcome these challenges, I invoke the permissibility and context principles of Ezumezu, the logic of conversational thinking as: I coalesce notion solidarity with creative struggle into what I christen ‘event dialecticsevent dialectics’ and argue that the benoke need not be rigid but applied contextually. With these revisions to Ezumezu logic, I fashion a reliable tool that will mediate thought, theory and method in Ìwà event metaphysicsevent metaphysics.