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

Method:

1. List and consolidate chapters, sections and topics (topics and main chapters follow) (a) step by step using this doc, especially topics (b) review outline and its needs

2. Rationally order them for (a) minimal dependence on later material and (b) arrangement so that the non-empty elements of a matrix of topics vs. sections lie in a narrow band around the diagonal

3. Some ordering principles: primary then secondary sections; make the Introduction simple with complex material indented or footnoted

4. Sources for ordering in this document: topics, reordering of the sections, new outline for introduction. Other documents: journey in being, annotated outline

Topics & Chapters

Template

Preface: §§

Introduction: §§

Foundation: §§

Journey in Being: §§

Fundamental Problems: §§

Lexicon: §§

Sources and Influences: §§

In the following, the locations are given under the topics. Chapters are bold

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: Has achievements

Outline and Structure

Why I Wrote the Essay

Reading the book: has comments on word meaning and use

Achievements

Preface: §§ Audience, Why I Wrote the Essay, Examples

Introduction: §§ Ambitions and Goals, Core Concepts..., Certain vs. Hypothetical Knowledge

Foundation: §§ Outline of the Theory, Summary and Critical Review of the Foundation, Consequences and Development of the Theory, Faith: Outline, Conclusions

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

Fundamental Problems: A listing of some achievements

Sources and Influences: Synthesis?

Foundation

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

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?

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

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?

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: §§

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

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

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’

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

Preface: §§ A Very Short Introduction to the Journey in Being, The Audience, possible Outline and Structure

Introduction: §§ Core Concepts, Arguments and Conclusions

Foundation: §§ The preliminary section, ‘The Theory of Being’

Journey in Being: The section on ‘Understanding’

Also note the summary sections: 1. The Audience, 2. Summary for the Introduction, 3. Summary and critical review of the core of the Foundation, 4. Conclusions and prospects for the Foundation, 4. The Journey Continues…, 5. The Fundamental Problems, and 6. Structure of Subsequent Editions

Fundamental Problems

Review Achievements

Lexicon

All collections of keywords

Possible Reordering of the Sections on the Development of the Metaphysics

The following, possible reordering is not final. It needs to be reconsidered for (1) fundamental relationships among the topics, and (2) for a second reordering for §Journey in Being: ‘What is the 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. Since the second ordering is an ‘inversion’ of the first, it may be appropriate in the following to place the individual and the journey near the middle of the system. When the ordering is complete, the second ordering should be placed (in outline) into §Journey in Being: ‘What is the Journey in Being’

Universe

Being

Logos

The Void (nothingness; non-being)

Metaphysics, the nature of possibility

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

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 variety or chain of being

Desirability

Desirability or value; the desirable is a function of what is of high value, what is ethical or moral and of 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 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’

Becoming

Explanation and evolution; necessity of evolution in the universe; in a given cosmological system, evolutionary mechanisms may constitute a normal explanation whose improbability is infinitesimal

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

Form

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

Universals

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 and the history of ideas and action including science, religion, myth, story, exploration…

The Individual

Consolidate with ‘Object’ and ‘Identity,’ below

Truth

Beauty

Object

The nature of the object; the concept: intension (sense, meaning) and extension (domain of application, reference, use)

Knowledge and symbol; explanation and understanding; the nature of ‘theory’

The individual

LOGIC

Logic

Cosmology

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: nature locally and normally continuous but globally patchy, multiple and occasional and microscopically without support

Physical cosmology: space-time, matter and force in our cosmological system; variety of cosmological kinds (universality vs. occasional nature of our kind of system;) mind and matter in a cosmological system

The Normal

The World

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’

Identity

The nature of 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

Human Being

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; psychology, the elements mind and the categories of intuition including humor as the category of indeterminism; symbol; mind and symbol as a proximate account of being; value; order and chaos in human life and society; the functions within society including culture, structure, politics and economics

Bridging

Faith

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

Faith and chaos

Bridging

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

DOCUMENTS 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 – 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

Some sources to use in the consolidation

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 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 elements to consolidate

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

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. 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 – 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