EDITING JOURNEY IN BEING

Arrange the sections and sub-sections logically; consolidate material on various topics except as needed for clarity (to introduce material and to keep the parts sufficiently self-contained)

Approach: Tasks and Sequence

1. Consolidation and unique placement of topics (other locations to be stems: have brief dependent discussion and links.) Rational ordering using the annotated outline for (a) unique placement so that a matrix of topics vs. sections is narrowly banded around the diagonal, and (b) minimal dependence on later material. Defer revision: in consolidating, leave revision for reduction of topics

Other sources for ordering: in this document reordering of the sections, new outline for introduction; in other documents journey in being

Sequence of consolidation: Use the order of Topics & Chapters to determine the sequence of topics and chapters. Sequence: (1) Topic wise: as far as possible integrate and consolidate local sets of discussions on a topic while moving and consolidating globally; then, (2) Chapter wise. The annotated outline is used (and ~~marked as used~~ andor edited) simultaneously according to this sequence

2. Reduction of topics and sections: consolidate topics, sections (1° then 2° §§) and chapters (a) step by step per topics and chapters below and (b) per the annotated outline

The major §§ to edit are the topics in what follows

3. Supplementary files and typescripts to consolidate and external sources incorporate and consolidate

4. Further editing through the cover pages; also use JOURNEY IN BEING - 2005 itself

Topics & Chapters

Topics: in the following, the locations of discussions are given under the topics

Metaphysics

In consolidating, use the POSSIBLE REORDERING, below

Foundation: §§ Theory of Being, especially ‘Outline of Metaphysics and its Logic,’ Metaphysics, Summary and Critical Review of the Foundation

Journey in Being: §§ Unity in Understanding, Metaphysics and Philosophy

Fundamental Problems: Coordinate with the above

Lexicon: Coordinate

Sources and Influences: Review for sources on metaphysics?

Being and its motivation; and the Theory of Being

Preface: Brief comments

Introduction: Keep as is or send material to foundation? Criteria to send may be in the discussion on reduction vs. understanding etc. in § Central Ideas on Being

Foundation: See comments immediately above regarding the Introduction

Achievements and Summaries (Outlines of the Metaphysics or Theory of Being and the conclusions)

Preface: §§ On the Publication of the Essay, Outline and Structure, The Audience, Examples

Introduction: §§ A Very Short Introduction, The Ambitions, Core Concepts and Arguments and Conclusions, Certain vs. Hypothetical Knowledge

Foundation: §§ The preliminary sections, Outline of the Theory, Summary and Critical Review of the Foundation, Faith: Outline, Conclusions and Prospects for the Journey

Journey in Being: Understanding: Unity in Understanding, Metaphysics and Philosophy, Dynamics, Experiments; The Journey Continues

Fundamental Problems: Has a listing of some achievements, also see Structure of the Next Edition

Sources and Influences: Synthesis?

Mind

Preface: §§ The Audience, Reading the Book

Introduction: §§ On the Meaning of Being, Achievements, Knowledge and Certainty

Foundation: The main section is ‘Mind.’ Consolidate from the §§ Outline of Metaphysics and its logic, ‘Knowledge, Object, and Symbol,’ The Fundamental Problem of Metaphysics, ‘Summary of the foundation continued: Mind, matter and substance,’ Mind under ‘Human Being: Mind, Symbol and Value’

Journey in Being: §§ What is the Journey in Being’

Fundamental Problems: §§ Mind

Lexicon: §§

Sources and Influences: §§

Principles of Thought

Introduction: §§ Knowledge and Certainty, Origins and Paths of the Journey in Being

Foundation: a variety of principles can be extracted from the first four numbered §§ The Theory of Being - Faith

Journey in Being: action as completing the loop (helix) of thought §§ Journey to the Ultimate: Transformation of Being

Sources and Influences: Review for sources on principles of thought?

Knowledge and Concepts

Knowledge

Introduction: §§ Knowledge and Certainty, A Personal Account of Knowledge and Faith

Foundation: §§ Theory of Being, Metaphysics, Human Being

Journey in Being: § Understanding; also see ‘Human Knowledge,’ below

Concepts

Preface: §§ Reading the book, Examples

Introduction: §§

Foundation: §§ Principles of Thought (has one sub-section on concepts,) Human Being: Mind, Symbol and Value (two sub-sections)

Journey in Being: §§ Understanding

Lexicon: §§

Logic

This topic appears to be consolidated – the sub-topics require consolidation

Cosmology

Preface: §§

Introduction: §§

Foundation: §§ The Theory of Being, Metaphysics, Logic, Cosmology, Critical Review of the Foundation, Human Being…, Faith

Note the repetition of topics of ‘Cosmological System; or phase-epoch or coherent domain of the universe’ in § Faith: ‘Literal or Material Interpretations’

Human Being: Mind, Symbol and Value

This topic draws from the general discussions under mind, metaphysics and cosmology but still appears to be well consolidated

Faith

Preface: §§ The Audience

Introduction: §§ The Nature of Being É On the Meaning of Being, The Significance of the Concept of Being, Arguments and Conclusions, A Personal Account of Knowledge and Faith

Foundation: §§ The Concept of the Normal, ‘World, Universe, Law, God,’ Further cosmological consequences, Summary and Critical Review of the Foundation, and the major § FAITH

Chapters: the outlines below indicate (a) locations of some topics and (b) some tasks etc.

Preface

A Very Short Introduction to the Journey in Being: Nature of the Journey, Why ‘Journey’ and why ‘Being,’ Some Essential Elements or Paths

The Audience: Achievements

Reading the book: On word meaning and use

Introduction

The Nature of the Journey in Being: has discussion of faith

The Central Ideas on Being: Concepts, Ambitions and Achievements: Achievements, discussion of mind. ‘On the Meaning of Being:’ Discussion of mind, of faith; has a summary

Knowledge and Certainty: Achievements, principles of thought, discussion of mind, discussion of knowledge and concepts

Origins and Paths of the ‘Journey in Being,’ has principles of thought, ‘A Personal Account of Knowledge and Faith’ has discussion of knowledge and concepts, of faith

Foundation

As of now, the placement of elements has been adequately considered under other sections and topics

Journey in Being

Human Knowledge

Philosophy and metaphysics; the philosophical disciplines; the disciplines of knowledge and action or transformation;

The Five Sciences… and the modified Britannica disciplines: make sure the disciplines from Journey in Being: Modified Britannica System are at least implicitly included

Experiments in the Transformation of Being

The experiments are essentially in one place; consolidate the foundation from The Theory of Being and its elaboration and the section ‘Discussion of Mind and Symbol as a Proximate account of Being’

Fundamental Problems

Review Achievements

Lexicon

All collections of keywords

Index

Formatting concerns for the index: 1. Modify and use the concordance, 2. Most terms to be indexed will be ALL CAPS 8PT – this will eliminate incidental uses of a word such as ‘form,’ 3. Word indexes only the first occurrence in a paragraph; I might eliminate occurrences in some paragraphs if they are physically close or conceptually repetitious of an indexed occurrence

AN ORDERING FOR THE METAPHYSICS

The following is a tentative reordering for the Chapter, ‘Foundation,’ i.e., of the METAPHYSICS of the sections, ‘Introduction,’ ‘Metaphysics,’ …, ‘Faith.’ It needs to be further considered for (1) Fundamental relationships among the topics, i.e. for the best order –including alternates in possible addition to the alternate of item 2 that follows– and for consolidation. (2) A second reordering for the second main chapter, ‘Journey in Being.’ (3) Completeness with respect to (a) the theory of being – especially the metaphysics, (b) the individual in the journey, and (c) systematic formulations of (human) knowledge that will have been separately analyzed for ‘completeness’ such as an encyclopedic formulation, e.g., the modified Britannica system

Section code: consider adding to the text

Being

That which exists or has existence; related to the verb, to be and its various forms – but not to all of its meanings and uses; the depth of the idea is due to its transparency. ‘Exists’ usually refers to the present instant or slice of time; it has a more general use in that something has being if it exists somewhere and somewhen… or somewhere-when… Numerous analyses of being and existence suffer from confusions of meaning and therefore unnecessary resort to sophistication in analysis; this is typical of analyses of the type that are piecemeal and, in a stab at intelligence, stop short of making the necessary distinctions that was originally the intention and characterizes much of analytic philosophy (continental philosophers tend to make the twin error of suppressing meaning in favor of depth.) It is important to simultaneously analyze the meaning and use of 1. Meaning (and use,) and 2. Being; and to be clear about the meaning(s) intended and the meanings clearly ruled out and 3. The field or range of concepts, in depth, within which ‘meaning’ and ‘being’ are seen to be embedded

Metaphysics is the science or study of being as being, i.e., not in any particular aspect such as the science of motion or the science of life. This is its most specific sense and, in this sense, metaphysics is identical or close in its meaning to logic; there is an inclusive but not common sense in which the particular sciences and studies are and should be part of metaphysics. Traditionally there is a common and inclusive meaning of metaphysics in which general or philosophical cosmology and psychology have been considered to be part of metaphysics

The later term, ontology, became reserved for the specific sense of metaphysics. The phrase, ‘an ontology’ is also used in reference to the fundamental elements of a being or a context or a class of beings or contexts. For the universe, then materialism, atomism, monadism, idealism are possible ontologies. It will be shown, shortly, that the universe has no ontology in the senses that, firstly, there is no fundamental element other than the void and, secondly, this is a purely logical statement in that it requires no premise. A Theory of Being is the working out of (1) an ontology or metaphysics, and (2) a complete range or chain of particular kinds or aspects of being and systems of understanding of particular aspects of being where knowledge of the range and the systems of understanding are based in local understanding (e.g. empirical and conceptual science) in light of the ontology. A theory of being would naturally include metaphysics in its specific sense that is identical to ontology and includes logic and in its more general sense which include general cosmology and the study of mind; it would also include epistemology or the study and theory of knowledge

Universe

All being over all times and all spaces – or all space-times. I use the plural forms of space and time or space-time because time and space may be a patchwork rather than continuous. Everything in the universe has existence (if universe and existence are used in their generalized senses.) Note that in any given meaning something cannot exist and not exist. The phrases universe and the one universe are identical. The word world is used here in reference to a sense of what constitutes the universe (it is used, more generally, to denote a coherent context e.g. the social world or the physical world)

The Void (nothingness; absence of being)

Metaphysics, the nature of possibility

Possibility: intension and extension, i.e., the meaning and domain of the possible; the actual; necessity

Logos

Plural: logoi. Related to form and logic, below

In its original meaning in Greek thought, logos, meaning ‘word,’ ‘reason,’ or ‘plan,’ was ‘the divine reason implicit in the universe.’ Here, the logos of a being is its necessary form, i.e., what is constitutive of its being, i.e., without which it would not be that being. When not referring to any particular being, logos is the logos of the universe; however, there is no reference to a divine realm that is essentially distinct from the world. Is there a pure logos, i.e. an order with the possibility of conclusions with no premise or, perhaps, no premise except the word that is equivalent to the presence of symbols?

The following concepts and conclusions could fall under the individual concepts

The universe: contains not only all things but, also, all patterns, all laws, all forms, all feelings (in a sense to be developed, feeling includes sensation, perception, cognition, imagery, icon, symbol sense, and emotion. I.e., feelings and etc. are forms despite any subjective feelings that they are outside the universe. Specifically, cognitions are forms)

There are no laws, patterns, or forms outside the universe; and further, there can be none. This follows from the concept of the universe and is an example of the contingent being equal and equivalent to the necessary

All actual entities including laws, forms, science, etc. are part of the Universe and, trivially, laws, forms, and even sciences are necessary and possible entities

If a (proposed) entity is not actual, it cannot be part of the Universe and is neither possible nor necessary

Therefore, actuality º possibility º necessity (i.e. it is true in all contexts that what is possible must be actual in some context.) Relative to the one universe all beings and events are necessary; there is no contingency

If a (proposed) entity is not actual, it cannot be part of the Universe and is neither possible nor necessary

The Universe has no creation, no creator, no beginning, no end, no boundary or edge; parts of the universe, with respect to duration or extension, may have creation etc.; that there is no beginning or end, no boundary does not imply that the universe is eternal or infinite (for without continuity in time and space there is no measure to reveal eternity or infinity;) yet the Universe may contain eternities and infinities

The void: the ‘complement’ of the Universe: contains no laws, forms, restraints, patterns; the ‘laws’ of logic are not true laws. Therefore:

The Void º Every entity º Every possibility º The Universe º All being

Therefore

             There no substances unless the void is counted as a substance
             The resulting ontology is neither pluralism nor monism but
             a substance-free ontology or voidism with no regress of explanation

and

             The Universe is infinitely greater than The ‘known universe’
             in extent (space-times,) depth, variety… including the
             ‘universes’ of everyday experience and science

For, what is imaginable is possible unless it is logically impossible (or its existence entails a logical impossibility;) i.e., what is logically possible is possible and actual and therefore necessary

A ‘universe of possibility’ is described in Cosmology, below; here are some examples:

That all logical descriptions are actual, shows that the question of the existence of God is trivial in comparison to the deep question of the possibilities of the nature of god. Clearly, there are many powers in the universe corresponding to which it may be said that, in some meaning, there are many gods. What can it mean that there is one God? It does not mean that there is one power separate from the many powers but that the powers not ultimately separate or separable and that they constitute the one power in which all being partakes. That one power may be called Brahman, the ultimate real

‘Jesus Christ is risen from the dead’ must obtain in countless cosmologies; this is actually two examples in itself – the rising from the dead which calls into question the meaning and absolute character of death, and the recurrence. The example chosen for its ‘shock and awe’ – its absurdity to the rational minded, its out-theologizing theology does not transcend farce, “writer ‘demonstrates’ the existence of Santa Claus.” Recurrence of individuals is given meaning by ‘being that spans all being’ which is given meaning by the theory of identity; this, too, calls into question the meaning of death

Any entity or being may and therefore can interact with any other being; i.e. all objects and events stand in necessary relation… this consequence of the present theory of being has been called the principle of sufficient reason. Therefore, there are ghosts or ghost universes; however, if a ghost is something that has no interaction with ‘this’ world then there are none

Annihilation of the entire actual universe or any part of it is possible and necessary; this, however, provides no measure or estimate of probability

The Normal

The foregoing seems to negate the stability of the world, the laws of science, and common sense which regardless of limitations is a practical necessity of the stability of experience (true common sense can call itself into question and, therefore, is not subject to the limitations on validity that common sense ascribes to itself)

Stability is returned through the concept of the normal. Although the world is ultimately, absolutely unstable its current or normal condition is that of at least apparent stability. The stability of the world is actual (even if not absolute which as has been seen, it cannot be.) Therefore that relative and practical stability is necessary. The stability is normal even though not absolute; thus ‘normal’ does not mean absolutely stable, reliable, or without indeterminism. The normal characterizes, for example, the world of experience as against the ultimate or absolute infinity of the actual Universe. This implicit characterization of the normal does not specify a fixed extension, that is, the determination of what is and what is not normal is not given in advance

What is taken to be normal depends on the context or situation and the state of knowledge. The world is normal; however, what is taken to be the world depends, e.g., on the state of knowledge, especially scientific knowledge

Mind

Sentience; knowledge: the nature of the object – the form of sentience vs. the fluidity of form in the noumenon; knowledge, religion, myth, science (perception and imagination) and the chain or variety of being

Feeling / expression includes sensation, perception, cognition, imagery, icon, symbol sense, and emotion / speech, dramatic communication, affective expression and physical action; consciousness as feeling vs. bright consciousness

Feeling is a function of the state of being of certain elements but without universality of feeling, mind is paradoxical; and since there is only one universe there is no mindless universe; and feeling is universal; however, the forms of feeling may differ vastly among cosmological systems. Therefore, in all except absolutely ephemeral being, feeling is a function of the state of other elements, i.e., there is primal knowledge that is not an effect or cause in the normal sense. Through accumulation, organization and layering of form, higher, e.g. animal or human, mind builds up whose routine function may be described as quasi-causal and quasi-deterministic because the routine apprehension of new contexts is at most partially causal and deterministic

Becoming

The necessity of all becoming is shown above. Mechanisms of becoming necessarily obtain in numerous circumstances, i.e., are normal; however such mechanisms are not universal. Rather, they are ‘probable.’ Mechanism is not the only normal or explanatory paradigm. Identity provides an explanation of the significance of aspects of becoming discussed below

The following mechanism provides a foundation for cosmology where the details are worked out. The elementary paradigm of becoming is necessarily one of indeterminism: ephemeral elements that perchance stand in a relation of near symmetry and are therefore, together, more durable (relatively stable.) Becoming from beyond the ephemera is necessarily selection of indeterministic variation but not necessarily incremental; there may be, however, most probable degrees of incrementalism determined, e.g., by a balance between some need for difference and lower probability of large variation. It has been seen that there are no absolute elements; however if the ephemera or the primitive trans-ephemera are taken as elements, then the perchance affinities that permit relatively stable being may be described as primal force or primal ethics; this primal ethics is not ethics its most primitive precursor. Becoming is necessary; any normal mechanisms of becoming, e.g. the incremental, obtain necessarily though not universally

This line of thought may give partial explanation, needing further development, to: co-existence (but non-universality of measure) of duration and extension, non-rigidity and therefore sequential interaction according to remoteness of the elements and therefore relativity of the measures of duration and extension; and of atomism. Thus, space-time is interwoven, multiple, patchy, does not necessarily extend to microscopic scales. It may also be seen that there is no universal causation in either the deterministic or probabilistic senses. In a normal cosmological system, a dominant though not microscopic space-time, non-deterministic causation and system of elements and laws may emerge; these may be immanent in their nature or imposed in the sense that they have some connection to the larger universe; however they are invariably local: there is no universal space-time, causation, system of elements or atomism, law

The description of becoming may take a mathematical form but the infinity of its variety (it must include, for example, theoretical physics as an extremely special case) may make that unlikely except in special cases or new mathematics

Divides and turns in the origin, variety and complexity of being

Durability, symmetry, stability and probability in the population of being, i.e., the universe

Journey, design, individual journey, transformation, possibilities of transformation. Except those whose description or depiction would involve violation of logic, all transformations are possible. However, there is a distinction between general and normal transformations; note that the delimiting boundary of the normal is not given, fixed or clear. The transformational phase of the journey (1) focuses on normal transformations, (2) seeks to expand the boundary of the normal through analysis, intuition and experiment, (3) does not exclude general transformation. It is important to recognize the infinitely variable aspect of the boundary of the normal and to avoid its conceptual degeneration into fixity and a return to the mind-matter or spirit-matter distinctions as real

Order and Chaos

Indeterminism (and, perhaps, the multiplicity of forms) may be experienced (as against the normal, the quasi-causal order and the designs of individuals) as chaos

In this connotation, chaos is not identified a priori with the concept of chaos from ‘dynamical systems theory’

Mechanism and Explanation

Evolution as mechanism; identity as an example of explanation; necessity and probability but not universality of mechanism in the universe; science and the disciplines; in a given cosmological system, evolutionary mechanisms and identity may constitute a normal explanation whose improbability is infinitesimal

Evolution on the paradigm of variation and selection is a mode of becoming (and so placed separately from the discussion of becoming)

On a Darwinian-like paradigm, evolution is a normal mode of becoming. Clearly, incremental evolution by variation and selection cannot be the only mode of becoming. However, the reign and power of evolution are often poorly understood. Examples are the compound organ, the sudden emergence of characters, e.g. the sudden emergence of wings in a wingless insect. The compound organ may be explained by a sequence of incremental change in both structure and function; in some cases, the sudden emergence of characters may be explained by regulator genes that had rapidly evolved to eliminate turning on of the character in response to a changed environment (or world, or opportunity) and then evolved again to turn the character on in response to a further environmental change. Although evolution is normally dominant since some balance between micro-incrementalism and saltation is most probable, it cannot be absolute because the less probable and the improbable cannot be ruled out on account of the theory of being and of the identity between the actual and the possible

Form

Forms in perception and cognition: the sign of one element in another is a filter or abstraction and this is necessarily ‘good’

All forms are elements of the logos; commonly, however, the logoi are the most general of forms. All forms have being; there is a proper meaning of form according to which a form is an object or thing. Forms are not elements of another universe; forms may be seen as imposed but are ultimately inherent in the universe provided that the dynamic nature of form is accepted; including symbolic logic, mathematics is the systematic study of form: when the symbolic study of form is reduced to a system the label ‘mathematics’ applies

As descriptive of form, symbol and language are precursors to logic and mathematics and are kinds of (systems of) signs whose study has been called semiotics; language is a form of communication that is included in the more inclusive form of dramatics which is not restricted to the art-form of theatre; art, too, has a concern with form; an assertive sentence is a form of proposition

Universals: with a proper meaning of ‘universal,’ as concepts, universals, e.g. tree-hood and redness, will be shown to have being, e.g., think of redness as a relationship rather than a property. I.e. a universal is an object or thing

Perception (cognition-feeling) is a partially congruent filter of the infinite multiplicity of forms in the noumenon

The extension of the concept of being, also called the ‘chain of being,’ included in mind is also the variety of forms… It is probable that our knowledge of the chain is infinitesimal. Sources for this knowledge include imagination, ideas and action and their history including science, religion, myth, story, exploration…

Object

The nature of the object; in the intuitive forms, the ideal object º a form or external object; symbol, ideal object and concept; the concept: intension (sense, meaning) and extension (domain of application, reference, use;) ‘object’ is very general and its reference is not restricted to what is concrete or continuous or localized; a process or a relationship is properly said to be an object

The individual

Symbolic or descriptive and intuitive forms; illusion º the ideal object misplaced; belief = symbolic or intuitive form held to correspond to an actual form; knowledge = belief + truth e.g. correspondence; common faith = pragmatic belief or belief in the ‘service’ of action (note that common faith includes knowledge and, also, the need of greatest becoming in an indeterministic universe may require either identification of knowledge-generalized and faith or that faith be held as superior to knowledge… and note the secondary function of belief in belonging)

Explanation and understanding; the nature of theory; the possibility of metaphysics; principles of thought which include that thought is a form of being and therefore thinking is a form of becoming and that explanations are invariably hypothetical unless logically necessary

The distinction between logic in the primal and symbolic cases occurs also for knowledge: primal knowledge in the elements of being vs. symbolically expressed knowledge. In the symbolic case two kinds (at least) of error are possible: falsehood, the illusion that the symbol validly refers; and concretization, the feeling, fostered by the apparent acuities of symbol and perception, that the form of the symbol is precisely the form of the world. In the primal case, a kind of error may be described: a lack of fit between the ephemera that does not result in duration greater than that of the individual isolated ephemera; in the primal case, error is the rule and ‘validity’ the exception. These issues are reiterated in discussing logic, below

On realism: our perception is in the universe which ‘generates’ and is therefore independent of our perception for its being; however, at root there is no independence of being from knowing and, therefore, there is no actual question regarding the independence of being and knowing. The forms, which include the cognition of form, are not dependent on cognition; as cognized, forms constitute a non-congruent filter. Thus: realism

On the subjective: objectivity has two meanings, (1) knowing the object-as-such and (2) seeing or attempting to see an issue from all sides. In certain pictures of knowing, objectivity in the first meaning is impossible; but in others, it is possible. In a model of the universe as an unending collection of facts, it is, in general, impossible to be objective in the second sense; however, it is not given that the universe is an unending collection of facts and even if it is, it is not necessarily a collection of facts that are equally worth knowing

There is a sense in which every event or fact is an object and every object is an event. Similarly a proposition or knowledge of a state of affairs is an object

The Individual

Consolidate with ‘Object,’ above and ‘Identity,’ below

Preliminary considerations of identity. Identity is the sense of being the same individual over change (and difference and displacement in time and location.) Identity is possible, even over drastic changes, through memory which integrates the differences and also makes goals and value possible

Truth

Just as there is one world and not two worlds such as a world of things and a world of forms, a mundane world and a divine world, or a world of matter and word of spirit, a secular world and a world of faith and religion – as understood below, so there is one truth, i.e., one realm of truth. Therefore, when the concern is with truth, there is no essential separation between the secular world and the world as seen in (true) religion. The domains of truth are not separable – there is one truth which means that in knowing or speaking the truth there is no a priori separation of the world into domains whose truth is separately knowable

If, as has been seen, the world (universe) is essentially connected so is truth. Therefore, in speaking truth it is not possible to speak separately of a mundane world and a divine world, of a world of matter and a world of spirit. There is a latent suggestion in the word ‘spirit,’ that a separate world may be carved out in actuality and in the inner life of the individual, and that the experience of individuals is or should be essentially private and not open to universal view. This suggestion is consistent with the idea of separation of matter and spirit, of the privacy of spiritual practice, of the feeling that spiritual practice is other than living in the world. These suggestions are abhorrent. Here, again, ‘being’ in its neutrality to these and other separations, in its character of being a priori to human experience, surfaces as superior to the modes of description. ‘Being’ is not a mode of description. We approach being as if it were a question

What is the way to truth? It might seem that there are many ways such as the four Yogic ways. However, as in cognition-emotion and thought-action, these and others may be seen as one way.

Beauty

LOGIC

Logic is the understanding of logos; it includes deduction or argument in that they uncover necessary form. Since there are no contingencies in the universe, there is a sense in which science, especially in its conceptual and explanatory sides as in, e.g., theoretical physics, is logic. Because the discussion emphasizes the understanding and variety of logical forms, this section is separate from the discussion of logos

A goal of the journey: living in feeling and becoming; the role of logic is to be overcome rather than avoided

The following considerations could also be placed under ‘logos’

The origin of logic: in ‘original’ becoming, when primal elements of being (entities) stand, out of indeterministic becoming, in relatively stable relation the durations of those entities are more than ephemeral. The potential for mutual stable relation may be seen a kind of primal probabilistic logic. The symbolic case permits an apparent distinction of truth vs. falsehood: the symbol is taken to have reference that is (1) complete in itself, and (2) precise; these two conditions make possible sharp contrast that does not hold in the primal case of the possible vs. impossible or the true vs. false. Do symbols actually satisfy these two conditions? I.e., is the distinction of the true vs. the false that is apparently possible in the symbolic case a real distinction?

What restrictions does logic place on the actual? No restriction, of course because logic is in the Universe and therefore immanent in it. However, when possibility and, therefore, actuality is described symbolically, e.g. in language, there will be some descriptions that contain contradictions and therefore impossible, i.e., have no actual realization. It may be interesting and useful to investigate what conditions this places on the extension of the concept of the actual, i.e., on what descriptions are realizable (and therefore real or actual.) Similar considerations apply to all forms of imagination that are sufficiently precise as to allow depictions whose impossibility of realization is inherent in the depiction itself. These limitations are the limitations of logic on the realization of description

Occasionally, develop the details of the LOGIC AS A DREAM

Cosmology

Cosmology: range and kinds of being… the chain of being

General cosmology: the span of being, recurrence, the articles of faith; origin of a quasi-coherent, quasi-deterministic, quasi-causal cosmological system with quasi-determinate being; time, space and space-time: locally and normally continuous but globally patchy, multiple and occasional and microscopically without support

Sources (examples) for general cosmology. Imagination (iconic and symbolic) and action; the traditional disciplines and the history of thought and action. Science and physical cosmology; faith, myth and religion; symbolic, iconic and dramatic expression: pure imagination, dreams and dreaming, language, art including drama and literature, philosophy, logic and logics, and mathematics

Physical cosmology: space-time, matter and force in our cosmological system; variety of cosmological kinds: solar system, stars, galaxies, cosmological models (universality vs. occasional nature of our kind of system;) earth sciences including geology; life; mind and matter in a cosmological system; history

Identity

Identity and personal identity. Preliminarily, identity is a sense of sameness between two states of an object that, if we did not know otherwise, could be different because the object is perceived at different places in space-time or in different even if similar forms or have its constitution changed indistinguishably if the replacement had not been seen. Any discussion of identity is likely to be confused unless various meanings and uses of identity are distinguished. Perhaps, the first distinction is identity as sameness in all aspects or absolute identity vs. sameness in constitution in which an object is the same object if it has the same constitution even if it is at different times and places vs. an object that has changed but counts as the same object because the change is not too great, e.g., parts of it have been replaced or the shape is not too different. There is a sense in which the only thing an object is identical to is itself at the same place and time. Sameness in constitution has meaning only in a normal cosmological system where the elements of being, e.g. particles, have identity. It should be clarified that, in the foregoing, sameness is sameness of being. However, sameness or similarity of form have meaning across normal cosmological systems. Thus, we distinguish sameness, similarity, or continuity of being vs. that of form. In general, only the latter can have meaning across normal cosmological systems. Allowing identity to include similarity or sameness, there are two kinds of identity: identity of being or substance and identity of form. Finally, there is a distinction between identity which can be made objective and perceived or subjective identity which allows for the perception of or pointing out of identity despite lack of identity according to this or that objective identity criterion. There is no particular importance to one kind of identity vs. another or subjective vs. objective identity since each has its own sphere of use and utility; what is important is to not confuse the distinctions and to know for what ranges the extensions of the different kinds of identity have overlap

The nature of personal identity; meaning or significance of the span of being and of recurrence; continuity and limits to identity through participation

Especial need to consolidate this new topic

Personal identity is the sense of being the same individual over change (and difference and displacement in time and location.) Identity is possible over even drastic change through memory which integrates the differences and also makes goals and value possible. Identity also gives meaning to being that is the span of individual beings (here, the term ‘individual’ is relative) in that individual identities merge in global identity (or identities) which also makes for continuity of individual identity in life and, through spanning, over multiple lives

Reflection, action, caring, commitment and relationship (bonding) are additional sources of continuity of individual identity

Personal identity is, first, subjective identity (continuity) of form. It can be identity (continuity) of substance only in a normal cosmological system. However, in knowledge, identity or continuity of form can be given meaning relative to the entire universe; this is possible in such a way that it makes no significant difference whether the identity is merely in knowledge or real. This knowledge in ultimate form is Atman which, in light of the just mentioned lack of significant difference, is Brahman. This also shows a dual role for knowledge and memory, for knowing and remembering

Dissociation: In ‘ordinary’ life, an individual’s sense of self, and so his or her attitude to the world, changes with the situation; however, there is, together with the sense of difference, a sense of sameness. Sameness and difference are in dynamic relationship; from here it is a small step to the occasional absence of a sense of sameness or continuity of self – the dissociation of the self

Human Being and Society

The organism; animal and human evolution: structure is the embodiment of form, reproduction is the extension of durability with renewal, mind includes the internalization of the modes of becoming in the individual, i.e., the creative function; integration of the mental functions; symbol – bound and free; the free symbol requires memory; consciousness; bright consciousness and its relation to reflexivity and the free symbol; psychology, the elements of mind and the categories of intuition including humor as the category of indeterminism and, so, of creation; even the psychology of the normal is not the psychology of the simply dependable or reliable but must include appreciation of order and chaos; growth, development, meaning, commitment and love; value; mind and symbol as a proximate account of being; order and chaos in human life and society; nature and necessity of action; social science(s) and philosophies: the functions, especially the group functions, within society including culture and the academic disciplines, art, and religion; structure, politics and law, and economics and technology

Bridging

Desirability

Desirability or value; the desirable is a function of what is of high value, what is constructive of value and commitment and modes of life in terms of action (the right) and goals or ends (the good,) what is ethical or moral and of what is feasible including economic feasibility. The ethical includes personal and social aspects; promotion of the right or good and prohibitive aspects; evaluation without excessive proscription; reflexive aspects (what is the nature of the ethical, especially in moving into new realms of individual and social possibility;) and constructive aspects, e.g., undertakings and commitments. The aspects of construction and high value are not merely mechanical in nature and include both ‘matter’ and ‘spirit’ where spirit is not essentially distinct from matter and includes the ‘spirit of adventure’ and rejects no source but encourages examination all sources of in-spirit-ation. The feasible includes economic or material considerations, political considerations or organization and institution of group decisions and action, and issues of social organization. The feasible implicitly includes considerations of limits to rationality and design; and the implications of ‘order and chaos’

Faith

Common faith; articles of faith; dogma; faith and chaos; myth and religion – it is important to note that the meaning of religion adopted here is ‘that which orients the entire being to the whole universe’ and this has overlap with common sense and knowledge, science, private faith or religion, spirituality and organized and institutionalized religion; faith and science

Evaluation of the support of the articles of faith from the above

The nature and significance of faith; literal and non-literal interpretations and their relations; faith, human being and society. Bridging

REDUCTIONS OF THE ORDERING AND ANALYSIS FOR COMPLETENESS, CONSISTENCY AND COHERENCE

Outline of the Ordering

Being

application, atomism, being, confusion of meaning, depth, distinctions of meaning, element, field or embedding range of concepts, epistemology, existence, idealism, materialism, meaning, metaphysics, monadism, ontology simultaneous analysis of meanings, theory of being, to be, use

Universe

world

The Void (nothingness; absence of being)

Logos … some concepts are taken from universe and void

actuality, annihilation, boundary, Brahman, complement of the universe, constitutive of being, contingency, death, edge, end, form, forms, ghost universes, ghosts, god and the deep question of the nature of god (the question of the existence of god is trivial,) law, laws, laws and forms and even sciences are necessary and possible entities, laws of logic are not true laws, logic, necessary form, necessity, no beginning, no creation, no laws, no regress of explanation, ontology, patterns, plan, possibility, principle of sufficient reason, pure logos, reason, recurrence, restraints, science, substance, substance-free ontology, the universe is infinitely greater than the ‘known universe in extent and depth and variety, universe contains eternities and infinities, void º every entity º every possibility º the universe º all being, voidism, what is logically possible is possible, word

The Normal

common sense, normality depends on the context or situation and the state of knowledge, stability is returned through the concept of the normal, world

Mind

affective expression, bright consciousness, chain or variety of being, cognition, consciousness, dramatic communication, emotion, feeling, feeling is universal, form of feeling, icon, imagery, perception, physical action, primal knowledge, quasi-causal, quasi-deterministic, routine function, sensation, sentience, speech, symbol

Becoming

atomism, boundary of the normal, complexity, design, divides, dominant, duration, elements, extension, general transformation, immanent, imposed, incrementalism, indeterminism, individual journey, journey, law, mathematics, microscopic, necessity of all becoming, non-deterministic local causation, normal transformation, origin, possibilities of transformation, primal ethics, primal force, probability, space-time, symmetry, system of elements (local), transformation, universal causation (no), variety

Order and Chaos

design, indeterminism, quasi-causal order

Mechanism and Explanation

the disciplines, evolution as mechanism, identity as an example of explanation, incremental evolution, necessity and probability but not universality of mechanism, normal explanation, normal mode of becoming, saltation, science, variation and selection

Form

art, assertion, communication, dramatics, a form is an object, forms are elements of the logos, forms have being, ideas and action and their history, language, mathematics, not elements of another universe, property, relationship, semiotics, sentence, sign, story, symbol, symbolic logic, universals, variety of forms

Object

belief, common faith, concept, concretization, correspondence, error, event, explanation, extension, fact, falsehood, a cognized form is a non-congruent filter, ideal object, illusion, intension, intuitive forms, knowledge, possibility of metaphysics, principles of thought, process, proposition, realism, relationship, subjectivity and objectivity – meanings of, symbol, theory, truth, understanding

The Individual

also see identity and object

Truth

Beauty, divine or spirit world, mundane world, private truth, there is one truth, one way, ways

LOGIC

limitations of logic on the realization of description, primal elements, primal probabilistic logic, science, symbolic case, truth vs. falsehood, understanding of logos

Cosmology

General cosmology: articles of faith, origin, range and kinds or chain of being, recurrence, sources in the history of thought and action, space-time, span of being

Physical cosmology: cosmological models, earth sciences including geology, force, galaxies, history, life, matter, mind and matter in a cosmological system, solar system, stars

Identity

Identity: absolute identity, identity of being or substance, identity of form, objective identity, personal identity, sameness in constitution, sense of sameness, subjective identity

Personal identity: action, Atman, Brahman, caring, change, commitment, continuity of individual identity in life, dissociation, dual role for knowledge and memory, gives meaning to being that is the span of individual beings, identity of substance, memory, multiple lives, participation, reflection, relationship, sense of being the same individual over change, span of being, subjective identity of form

Human Being and Society

action, art, bridging, bright consciousness, categories, categories of intuition, commitment, consciousness, creation, creative function, culture, development, disciplines, economics, elements, elements of mind, functions, group functions, humor, integration, law, love, meaning, memory, mind and symbol as a proximate account of being, order and chaos, politics, psychology, reflexivity, religion, reproduction, structure, symbol – bound and free, technology, value

Desirability

commitment, constructive of value, design, economic, ethical, feasible, goals or ends, the good, group decisions and action, high value, modes of life, prohibitive, promotion, rationality, the right, value

Faith

articles, bridging, common faith, dogma, faith and science, literal and non-literal interpretations, myth, religion

Consolidation

In the ordering, the following changes are possible: Combine 1. Mind, universe, the void, and the normal; 2. Logos, form and logic, 3. Becoming, order and chaos, mechanism and explanation, 4. Identity, object and the individual, and truth, 5. Human being and society, desirability, and faith. This results in an outline:

Being

The Universe, the Void and the concept of the Normal

The universe and the void: actuality, annihilation, Brahman, complement of the universe, contingency, death, forms, ghost universes, ghosts, god and the deep question of the nature of god (the question of the existence of god is trivial), laws, laws of logic are not true laws, necessity, no laws, no regress of explanation, ontology, patterns, possibility, principle of sufficient reason, recurrence, restraints, substance, substance-free ontology, the universe is infinitely greater than the ‘known universe in extent and depth and variety, void º every entity º every possibility º the universe º all being, voidism, what is logically possible is possible, world

The normal: common sense, normality depends on the context or situation and the state of knowledge, stability is returned through the concept of the normal, world

Mind

Logos, form and logic

Logos: boundary, constitutive of being, edge, end, form, law, laws and forms and even sciences are necessary and possible entities, logic, plan, necessary form, no beginning, no creation, pure logos, reason, science, universe contains eternities and infinities, word

Form: art, assertion, communication, dramatics, a form is an object, forms are elements of the logos, forms have being, ideas and action and their history, language, mathematics, not elements of another universe, property, relationship, semiotics, sentence, sign, story, symbol, symbolic logic, universals, variety of forms

LOGIC: limitations of logic on the realization of description, primal elements, primal probabilistic logic, science, symbolic case, truth vs. falsehood, understanding of logos

Object

Object: belief, common faith, concept, concretization, correspondence, error, event, explanation, extension, fact, falsehood, a cognized form is a non-congruent filter, ideal object, illusion, intension, intuitive forms, knowledge, possibility of metaphysics, principles of thought, process, proposition, realism, relationship, subjectivity and objectivity – meanings of, symbol, theory, truth, understanding

Truth: beauty, divine or spirit world, mundane world, private truth, there is one truth, one way, ways

Identity and the Individual

Identity: absolute identity, identity of being or substance, identity of form, objective identity, personal identity, sameness in constitution, sense of sameness, subjective identity

Becoming

Becoming: atomism, boundary of the normal, complexity, design, divides, dominant, duration, elements, extension, general transformation, immanent, imposed, incrementalism, indeterminism, individual journey, journey, law, mathematics, microscopic, necessity of all becoming, non-deterministic local causation, normal transformation, origin, possibilities of transformation, primal ethics, primal force, probability, space-time, symmetry, system of elements (local), transformation, universal causation (no), variety

Indeterminism, order and chaos: design, quasi-causal order

Mechanism and explanation: the disciplines, evolution as mechanism, identity as an example of explanation, incremental evolution, necessity and probability but not universality of mechanism, normal explanation, normal mode of becoming, saltation, science, variation and selection

Cosmology

General cosmology: articles of faith, origin, range and kinds or chain of being, recurrence, sources in the history of thought and action, space-time, span of being

Physical cosmology: cosmological models, earth sciences including geology, force, galaxies, history, life, matter, mind and matter in a cosmological system, solar system, stars

Human Being and Society, Desirability and Value, Faith

Human being and society: action, art, bridging, bright consciousness, categories, categories of intuition, commitment, consciousness, creation, creative function, culture, development, disciplines, economics, elements, elements of mind, functions, group functions, humor, integration, law, love, meaning, memory, mind and symbol as a proximate account of being, order and chaos, politics, psychology, reflexivity, religion, reproduction, structure, symbol – bound and free, technology, value

Desirability: commitment, constructive of value, design, economic, ethical, feasible, goals or ends, the good, group decisions and action, high value, modes of life, prohibitive, promotion, rationality, the right, value

Faith: articles, bridging, common faith, dogma, faith and science, literal and non-literal interpretations, myth, religion

Second Consolidation

In the following, 1. Mind, the Universe and the Void ® Universe, 2. Logos, form and logic ® Form, 3. Form É Object, 4. Identity Þ the Individual, 5. Mechanism and Explanation ® Explanation, 6. Cosmology ® Cosmos, 7. Human Being and Society, Desirability and Value, Faith ® Man (I will probably use ‘Human Being’ but, except for the modern confusion of ‘man’ and ‘male’ and the associated negation of ‘woman,’ I would prefer ‘Man’)

Being

Universe

Mind

Form

Identity

Becoming

Explanation

Cosmos

Man / Human Being

Final Consolidation

1. Being É Becoming (the role of becoming Ì explanation,) 2. Being É Universe and Mind, 3. Form É Identity, 4. Cosmos É Man

Being

Form

Explanation

Cosmos

Checking for Completeness

With regard to the Outline of the Ordering, the modified Britannica topics are included as follows below. The objective is to show the inclusion and some places that also cover the Britannica topics are not indicated. Topics that have no shown inclusions are eliminated

Being

μπ₁ = metaphysics (and logos and cosmology)

Universe

μπ₂

Mind

ψ₁ = mind

Mechanism and Explanation

κ₂ = studies of the disciplines

Form

λ = signs whose study is semiotics, language and symbol; μ = mathematics; α = art

Object

Β = belief; κ₁ = knowledge (epistemology;) φ₁ = faith (religion)

LOGIC

λ' = logic

Cosmology

μπ₃ = metaphysics (and logos and cosmology;) π = physical science and physical cosmology; γ = earth sciences including geology; β = biology – life and life sciences; ψ₂ = mind; η₁ = history

Identity

ψ₃ = mind

Human Being and Society

Desirability

εα = value or ethics and aesthetics; α = art; σ = society, social science, nature and aspects including ό = economics, κρ = political science and philosophy (and law;) τ = technology; η₂ = history

Faith

φ₂ = faith; ρ = religion

SECOND ORDERING IN WHICH THE FOCUS IS THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE JOURNEY

The following ordering is for §‘What is the Journey in Being’ of the Chapter ‘Journey in Being’– in which The Individual and the Journey will be fundamental and a source of the understanding of the journey in which the relation between the individual and the universe (all being) is manifest. When this ordering is complete, it will be placed in §‘What is the Journey in Being’ and may be a basis for an outline of Chapter 2, ‘Journey in Being’

Identity (É the individual)

Journey

Object

Human Being

Cosmology

Explanation

Becoming

Form

Mind

Universe

Being

The Following Further Consolidation is Possible

1. Identity requires not only continuity but also change etc. and so includes the journey; 2. Identity É Object; 3. Cosmology = Cosmos É Human Being; 4. Becoming É Explanation; 5. Being É Becoming through Universe (note that Identity É Form)

Identity

Cosmos

Explanation

Being

New Outline for ‘Introduction’

The following is tentative and incomplete:

Journey | Being – what, why… | Theory of Being… why ‘theory;’ on fields | Accomplishments

Review

…once through, dealing with higher level headings, rationalizing heading styles and eliminating unnecessary headings – especially higher level, incorporating material from other documents to consolidate and reference material

FILES AND TYPESCRIPTS TO CONSOLIDATE

Most documents are in the temporary folder C:/my Documents/1. World and Being/realization/being-elements-temp (return to original folder.) 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 – PREVIEW AND OVERVIEW | TEN QUESTIONS ON BEING | OLD FOUNDATION OF APRIL 2004 | key items from JOURNEY IN BEING | OUTLINE OF EXPERIMENTS | JOURNEY IN BEING - NEW IDEAS | and NEW IDEAS SUPPLEMENTS | PRINCIPLES OF THOUGHT | PRINCIPLES OF THOUGHT II – 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… 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

EXTERNAL SOURCES TO INCORPORATE AND CONSOLIDATE

SOURCES

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…

Use the Britannica articles and download of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles and other sources 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

Dagobert 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 | FOUNDATION QUANTUM THEORY

Existence – local, web

Metaphysics – University of Bristol article – local, WEB

WHERE TO INCORPORATE THE SOURCES

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]

SOME TOPICS AND PHILOSOPHIES TO INCORPORATE AND CONSOLIDATE

Pertinent elements and their philosophies: Possibility, necessity and modal logic | Process | Religion, god, space-time | other…

FURTHER EDITING, REORGANIZATION, AND CONSOLIDATION

Objectives

Bring all discussions of each topic up to date in terms of the latest ideas | introduce clarity into the individual discussions

Style and Paragraph Analysis

No appearance of headings on the bottoms of pages; no last lines of sections at tops of pages

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. 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 – abbreviate long ones, e.g. ‘Theory of Being,’ that are frequently used, especially ‘Journey,’ ‘Nothingness’ … small cap format (for Index and clarity) only to first reference in a unit … Use of he / she, hers / his

make a list of style issues

LINK AND FORMAT

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

Links: link all new links and references, check and validate old ones

Format: all page number references and keywords as 8pt small caps, all hyperlinks – see the section, ‘references and links’ of the preface for details of hyperlink formatting for web and print versions

VERSIONS

Long-academic-technical | short-popular… Implementation: (1) use offset, small text, footnotes, appendices to mark technical-detailed parts, &OR (2) have separate versions

One way to accomplish this without excessive repetition is (1) send technical material regarding being from the introduction to foundation, (2) implement offset of technical material in the introduction, (3) have an explanatory section for all the other chapters

COVERS

Covers and Cover Letter for the Printed Version: Be careful about claims and the definition of metaphysics and what should be in the cover. Bring into sync and eliminate excess repetition from: INTRODUCTION | Back cover | Complimentary copy – COVER LETTER