BEING AND THE ELEMENTS OF BEING

ANIL MITRA, PH.D., COPYRIGHT © 2001, REFORMATTED May 2003

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Document status: May 21, 2003

Essential content absorbed to and no further action needed for Journey in Being; maintained out of interest


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Essentials and Charismatic Presentation

 

DIVISIONS

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Being and the Elements of Being

Organization and Plans

Itemized Ideas and Issues

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BEING AND THE ELEMENTS OF BEING: THE POTENTIAL OF BEING

1        Being and the Elements of Being

1.1      General

1.2      The Concept

1.3      Introduction to the Narrative

1.3.1      The Purposes of the Narrative

1.3.2      The Divisions

1.4      World and Being

1.5      Ideas and Meaning

1.6      Machines as Agents and as Tools – Focus: Modern Networking and Digital Computation

1.7      Social Action

2        Organization and Plans

2.1      Plans for this document

2.1.1      The Function

2.1.1.1   Critical Function

2.1.2      The Core Essays

2.1.2.1   Technical Version[s] of the Core Essay[s]

2.1.2.2   Format for the Technical Version[s] of the Core Essay[s]

2.1.2.3   Issue of minimalism vs. presentational form

2.1.2.4   Straight Version of the Core Essay: Concept

2.1.2.5   Straight Version of the Core Essay: Content

2.1.2.6   Straight Version of the Core Essay: Tentative Outline

2.1.2.7   Straight Version of the Core Essay: Charismatic Format

2.1.3      Appendixes

2.1.4      Absorbing and Entering Content

2.1.5      Charismatic Format

2.1.5.1   What the work will do for the [classes of reader] reader

2.1.5.2   How to get there

2.1.5.3   Also see

2.1.6      Final Details

2.2      Plans for Being and the Elements of Being

2.3      Organization

3        Itemized Ideas and Issues

3.1      General

3.2      The Concept

3.3      The Main Ideas and Logic

3.3.1      The Inverse Approach to Philosophy

3.3.2      Being – Actual, Possible and Potential

3.3.3      Logic of knowledge and being

3.3.4      Transformation: How individual being transforms to / constructs universal being

3.4      Introduction to the Narrative of the Explorations, the Results – what was Learnt

3.5      World and Being

3.5.1      Nature of this Division

3.5.2      Content

3.5.3      Approach from being

3.5.4      On Limits

3.5.4.1   Kinds of Limits

3.6      Ideas and Meaning

3.6.1      Nature of this division

3.6.2      Explanation

3.6.2.1   Explanation from the Present

3.6.2.2   Explanation from Origins vs. Explanation from the Present

3.6.2.3   On Explanation

3.6.3      On Naïve Radical Skepticism

3.6.4      On God

3.6.5      Wittgenstein

3.6.6      A Task of Philosophy

3.6.7      Science as Eternal and Science as Contextual

3.7      Machines as Agents and as Tools – Focus: Digital Computation

3.8      Social Action

4        Sour