JOURNEY IN BEING: Supplement to FOUNDATION SEPT 2004 PRINT ED
ANIL MITRA PHD, COPYRIGHT © June 2005
Status: use, eliminate
Sources for revision: FOUNDATION, DESIGN and links
CODE
Temporary: modify or eliminate | Implemented. Tentatively set
aside | Determine
significance | Plans and comments
Planning and Revision | Editing and Modification
CONTENTS
Editing, Reorganization, and Consolidation
Pre-edit tasks… Objectives… Printing this document… Documents to consolidate… Some sources to use in the consolidation… Some elements to consolidate… How to Consolidate… Style and Paragraph Analysis… Link and Format
Enter materials from all documents
Get chapters (there may be a preface,) sequencing, placement (see below,) right
Consider research topics to do now; enter all projects not to be done now into §FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS
Edit etc: 1. Modify, then 2. Carry out the following
Long-academic-technical |short-popular
Implementation: (1) use offset, small text, footnotes, appendices to mark technical-detailed parts, &OR (2) have separate versions
Rationalize heading indents | Eliminate level 4 and higher numbered headings?
Place material for PREFACE (have a preface?) vs. INTRODUCTION vs. FOUNDATION vs. §2 JOURNEY
Preview and overview | Being and its motivation | Developments currently in the preface | Summary from the compound summaries of FOUNDATION
Distribution of metaphysics etc. in §1 FOUNDATION vs. §2 JOURNEY
Place material from the early sections of the foundation
The topics of ‘Cosmological System; or phase-epoch or coherent domain of the universe’ are repeated in ‘Literal or Material Interpretations.’ what consolidation and reference is appropriate?
Think out the logic of the relations among the topics | eliminate excessive repetition, placement of individual topics in multiple locations
Bring all discussions of each topic up to date in terms of the latest ideas | introduce clarity into the individual discussions
Printing this document may be useful at some point toward its consolidation
Type-scripts
Except some linked below, all documents are in the temporary folder C:/my Documents/1. World and Being/realization/being-elements-temp
the original versions link to the temporary location. When the revision of foundation is complete, documents whose function is temporary will be eliminated and the others returned to their original locations
Exceptions: 1. JOURNEY IN BEING. 2. Edit –eliminate repetition– after main revision: COVER LETTER with contact info; smaller paper size | COVER and FRONT PAGES
the documents – FOUNDATION and:
10.02.04. TEN QUESTIONS ON BEING | 11.21.04. LETTERS TO MICHAEL GREENBERG | 11.28.04. this document | 12.3.2004: OLD FOUNDATION OF APRIL 2004 | key items from JOURNEY IN BEING | OUTLINE OF EXPERIMENTS | JOURNEY IN BEING - NEW IDEAS | and NEW IDEAS SUPPLEMENTS | NEW IDEAS SUPPLEMENT 1 | PRINCIPLES OF THOUGHT
the following temporary documents: FOUNDING EQUATIONS OF MOTION | HAGGAG | I DON'T WANT TO TRANSFORM | I TAKE IT AS AXIOMATIC | LOGIC AND NATURAL LAW | SOME MATERIAL TO INCORPORATE | WHY BEING | SUPPLEMENT OUTLINE
Details of use for TEN QUESTIONS ON BEING
PURPOSE and GOALS of the Journey – questions 8 and 9
what is expected of a Theory of Being? – question 6
BEING – questions 1 and 4
THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF METAPHYSICS – questions 2 and 3
COSMOLOGY – questions 4 and 5
FURTHER COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES – question 7
ACTION – question 10
JOURNEY IN BEING – question 8
Regarding PRINCIPLES OF THOUGHT. Develop and incorporate the principles
From principles: first principles, history of philosophy e.g. ‘Socratic method,’ dialectic, transcendental methods including the transcendental analytic
Examples of general and special purpose principles from my sources, e.g. PRINCIPLES OF THOUGHT, how to think of mind from JOURNEY IN BEING
11.28.2004. Use the Britannica articles and download of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles on | Charles Hartshorne – LOCAL, WEB | Alfred North Whitehead – LOCAL, WEB | Samuel Alexander – reference in ‘Process Philosophy’ – LOCAL, WEB [there are other references to Samuel Alexander in the Stanford Encyclopedia.] Also see: the Collected Works of Samuel Alexander – LOCAL, WEB | Charles Sanders Peirce – LOCAL, WEB | I may use Iris Murdoch’s, Existentialists and Mystics to better inform myself on a number of topics, especially the thought of Sartre, Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir | Dabobert Runes Dictionary of Philosophy for metaphysics, logic, cosmology and other topics | Physical foundations of logic -- Normal Equations of Motion: currently I the form of a handwritten note; see, also, Quantum Logic – LOCAL, WEB, LOCAL1, WEB1; possible resources: COMPLETE LATTICE - WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA, LATTICE THEORY -- FROM MATHWORLD, QUANTUM MECHANICS, QUANTUM THEORY: VON NEUMANN VS. DIRAC; need to integrate form, logic, quantum logic and need study of algebra in relation to lattices and rings | Use the research plans and sources from DESIGN FOR a JOURNEY IN BEING and other documents to achieve a high standard for philosophy, logic, metaphysics, cosmology, ethics (axiology,) the disciplines and the history of action
Where to incorporate – some preliminary suggestions
Charles Hartshorne – nature and meaning of God and religion…
Alfred North Whitehead – process, elements of being…
Samuel Alexander – Space, Time, and Deity
Charles Sanders Peirce – Logic, Logic of Science, Pragmatism and the reduction of the 12 Kantian categories to Quality, Relation and Representation [Note Schopenhauer’s reduction to Space, Time and Causation]
Pertinent elements and their philosophies: Possibility, necessity and modal logic | Process | Religion, god, space-time | Other…
SEQUENCING FOCI
1. NEED – dynamic, parallel-iterative
2. CONCEPT – by document outlines, primarily THIS DOCUMENT, FOUNDATION, 4.O4 FOUNDATION; review titles – think of alternates, choose one that makes the point and is brief and bold; LOCATE ALL OCCURRENCES OF WORDS-CONCEPTS-TOPICS
3. TASK – sequence: FOUNDATION + THIS DOCUMENT ® OUTLINE ® fill in and consolidate; ® LEXICON ® site
IDENTIFY AND OUTLINE: relevant portions of remaining documents in §‘Documents to consolidate’ of FNDN.SUPP 9.04 II. Use the PROLOGUE in the INTRODUCTION to FOUNDATION. Topics to include from JOURNEY IN BEING: from the introduction – fundamental principles, the four paths; from the narrative – the discussions of cosmology and mind and; §2 on EXPERIMENTS – start with OUTLINE OF EXPERIMENTS; and, possibly, material from §§3-4
EDIT, ENHANCE AND CONSOLIDATE OUTLINES, TOPICS AND TERMS; merge, primarily to FOUNDATION using the generated data and the suggestions below. Use the external sources above. He / she
There should be no appearance of headings on the bottoms of pages
Plan: make a list of style issues
Headings – details need to be experimented and filled in. Aim for: suggestiveness, BOLDNESS, rigor – for depth, breadth, ADVENTURE; appeal to individual and group at all levels – informal and formal. Experiment with formatting of titles at the different levels
WORK ON STYLE: POETRY, FLOW; SIMPLICITY; enhance BOLDNESS; NARRATION; READABILITY; INSPIRATION. to make the essay more readable and narrative-like –like an UNFOLDING, an ADVENTURE, a STORY or MYTH or EPIC– write it as such. as a ‘NOVEL,’ ‘poem,’ or ‘INSPIRATION.’ to make it read as such, place details, asides in indented paragraphs, smaller print, foot or end notes, or appendices – this permits the rigor, precision and detail to remain with the dramatization. Occasionally, develop the details of the LOGIC AS a DREAM. Analyze each paragraph, section and other unit as appropriate for function and expression and modify or eliminate the unit or appropriate parts. Edit for proper and excess use of keywords and phrases, especially ‘Journey,’ ‘Nothingness,’ ‘Theory of Being’ …
Keywords to link: (link,) elsewhere, in / of this essay, in / of the essay, above, below, earlier, later, previous, subsequent, immediate, developed, elaborated, explained, detail; preface, introduction, foundation (and the section titles metaphysics, logic, cosmology…,) journey in being, fundamental problems, lexicon, sources and influences, index, author
Covers and Cover Letter for the Printed Version
Bring into sync and eliminate excess repetition from: INTRODUCTION | Back cover | Complimentary copy – COVER LETTER