Profundity

Profundity is the basis of all value. It can even be called axiomatic to axiology (theory of value), as the object of all value, pure objectivity, devoid of coherence, totally independent referential ground.

Alfred North Whitehead, who coauthored Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell, defines the subject (in his "Process and Reality," p. 43): "An actual entity is at once the subject experienceing and the superject of its experiences.... The term 'subject' will be mostly employed when the actual entity is considered in respect to its own real internal constitution. But 'subject' is always to be construed as an abbreviation of 'subject-superject.'"

Consciousness regards an actual entity. Conscious phenomena, which is abstract form (see Laws of Form), regards a conscious subject. Conscious noumena, which is abstract value (see Axiology), regards an object of consciousness.

Regarding the theory of reference and ontology, Profundity is referential zeroness, no reference, and Subjectivity is referential one (one self), self-reference. Cognition as (dimensionally) iterated reference proceeds drawing such distinction to construct the present, the ontologically given, values and forms.