The Way of Being
Design of the Database 2018 – 2019

Anil Mitra © May 2018—March 2019

Updated March 26, 2019 @ 04:09:35

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Contents

DOCUMENT SYSTEM DESIGN

The latest set of resource and main documents (3/10/2019)

Resources

The main documents

Secondary sources

The latest plan (3/10/2019)

The desired documents: plan and execution

The plan for writing in the world

Projects to attract readers

The documents—an earlier version (November 2018)

Earlier version of the desired documents

How to execute the main documents

History of versions

The Way of Being and database—current plans

The documents

Stories

The site

DATABASE DESIGN

Preliminary

Elements

One table for each main category

Normalization

Extensibility

Combining, viewing, and entering data

Study

DATABASE DESIGN FOR THE WAY

Co-projects

Design

Tables

Concepts

Main influences

Other resources with links

Relationships, queries, forms, and reports

Relationships

Queries

Forms

Reports

RECENT PRE-DATABASE VERSIONS

DATABASE SOURCE FILES

Files listed

Rough order of editing

Design of the database

Lists of files

Website

Presentations

Main essay and concepts

Standard parts of the essay

Main influences

Topics

Planning

Alphabetic order

RESOURCE FILES

Some database files

Other resource files

Archives and other listings

 

Design of the Database

DOCUMENT SYSTEM DESIGN

This is the main plan. Individual documents and editions may have their own plans in their ‘resources’ sections.

The latest set of resource and main documents (3/26/2019)

Resources

This document—document and database design.html (this document);

And—essays.html.

The main documents

Planning—document and database design.html (this document)

Main essay template—the way - template outline.html (headings with comments and some new content developments) and the way - main version.html (to be built and absorb the content from the template as well as from the following)

Current contributing content—my journey.html (a personal and motivational account of the way) and outline.html (the essentials: metaphysics and motivation)

Secondary sources

the way-template.html (recent template essay)

the way-outline.html (recent extended essay of 2018; the way.pdf—pdf version, not up to date)

the way-pocket manual.html (extended version of 2018); the way-print.doc (pocket and print edition) and resources.html (located in the root folder and taken from the word document)

../../../conceptual outline-essential.html (exhaustive version of 2017 – 2018)

world and experience.html (world as experience)

The latest plan (3/26/2019)

The desired documents: plan and execution

1.     Write while realizing—in life – at home – in the world

2.     Site

3.     Template (without content) and a new main version with full content

4.     A Brief and portable version—sources: the pocket manual (a Word document) and its resources

The plan for writing in the world

5.     The template above (eliminate plans from most documents; import important aspects of the plans to this document) and main version;

6.     Simplify site design for essentials and appeal; export the main documents to a high level folder—perhaps only a few at a time while readjusting links. This will be the basis of a new site

Projects to attract readers

Some possibilities are

7.     Rewriting the Gita; use of the writing of Sri Aurobindo.

8.     Other texts—religious and philosophical.

The documents—an earlier version (November 2018)

the way-pocket manual.html

the way-outline.html—the outline has been synchronized with the outline of the pocket manual.

the way-template.html

resources for the way of being.html

priorities for the way.html and current sequence.html

Earlier version of the desired documents

(For reference)

1.     Site

2.     Template and outline

3.     Brief and portable version—the pocket manual

How to execute the main documents

1.     Write while realizing—in life – at home – in the world

2.     Use current portable as base for main / template; its outline will be the outline; make the outline for brief / portable accordingly

3.     Adjust banner links

4.     Export the main documents at most a few at a time (rather than all at once) to high level folder—either one below or at the level of “My Documents”.

5.     The high level folder will be the basis of a new site.

History of versions

Current site

Previous site

The Way of Being and database—current plans

The documents

The final aim is realization in interaction with sharing and writing-editing-refining (chiseling)—especially for the way-pocket manual (the portable version)… and for the other essential resources. Minimize repetition / inconsistency: aim, experience, the block… Continue to develop the main essays and the resources. Canonical order of topics, especially Being vs experience and psychology.

Essentials—main, academic, and general points. Fine tune and chisel. Format for accessibility and appeal. Print.

Files to maintain in parallel resources for the way and related files: main influences, system of human knowledge, concepts, canonical dilemmas and home (index) (in high level directories?).

Stories

See section Stories in the way-template.html.

The site

A really simple version!

Home = general + links to: world issues – dedicate-affirm – The Way. Details = essays; modify index (eliminate about), index-detail, amitra, and amitra-detail; implement then eliminate or make a secondary link: design. Search bar, See site design.

Use Resources to begin resources for the way of being.html in a high level directory for the main essays and new site.

Revert to and modify document and database design.doc.

Database design and construction as follows.

DATABASE DESIGN

Preliminary

Edit the pocket manual—improve the concept outline—and prepare it for the database

Review the database tables, queries and forms so far. Especially look into ways to implement knowledge organization and reorganization.

Elements

One table for each main category

Identify the categories

Normalization

Extensibility

Begin with toy

Combining, viewing, and entering data

Relationships and queries

Forms and reports

Study

Experiment with access

Access Inside Out

Normalization

Forms with datasheets

Queries

Internet—database, knowledge-concept databases, access databases, conversion to 2002 format

DATABASE DESIGN FOR THE WAY

Co-projects

This

Database(s)

the way-pocket manual.html

priorities for the way.html

current sequence.html

Design

What do I want the database to do?

How will I implement it?

What can a database do? Learn while implementing toy versions!

Tables

Concepts

Principles of organization filtering and re-organization—e.g. by queries

Multiple metaphysical paradigms—e.g. materialism, idealism, Being…

Multiple epistemic paradigms—correspondence, coherence, pragmatism…

Re-organization according to these principles, different organizations

Dual organizations and re-organizations

Levels of detail

Levels of sophistication

Multiple outlines per combinations of above—leading to multiple texts

Special topic texts according to subtopic (see filelist.html)

Links to other tables and topic essays

Fields

Concept; level—primary, secondary…; database links to thinkers, schools, works; external links to essays, talks; comments

Split into primary and other?

Primary and secondary concepts

Primary—hierarchy and association… with database relationship and link to secondary

Secondary

Hierarchy and relationship

Main influences

Individuals

Separate tables for thinkers and actors?

Fields—names, dates, … (see toy) maybe schools

Schools

Analytic philosophy

Atomism

British Idealism

Emergentism

Existentialism

Holism

Idealism

Intuitionism

Language philosophy

Logical positivism

Materialism

Physicalism

Positivism

Pragmatism

Process philosophy

Rationalism

Realism

Samkhya

Skepticism, Academic and Pyrrhonic

Solipsism

Vedanta

Yoga

Works

Other resources with links

Database design

database design (above)

General

Resources

system of human knowledge.html

Essays

Talks

Add

Search

Google, Bing—appropriate search words, e.g. databases for philosophy or “databases for philosophy” … other terms: Being, metaphysics…

Relationships, queries, forms, and reports

Relationships

To join

To do what relationships do

Queries

To filter, extract, join data

Forms

To view and enter data

Reports

To publish data

Individual, school or orientation (idealist vs materialist), main theories and concepts, main works

Database documents

RECENT PRE-DATABASE VERSIONS

conceptual outline-essential.html

world and experience.html

DATABASE SOURCE FILES

These files are for direct database use.

Files listed

Topic files may have two versions—a short and essential version for easy editing and a reserve or resource, possibly longer version.

Only one version is listed here, it is usually the essential version. The other version will be linked from the listed version.

Rough order of editing

Design of the database

this document

Lists of files

editions of the way.doc / editions of the way.html

Website

amitra.html (and the entire site)

Presentations

talks.doc / talks.html

Main essay and concepts

the way-outline.doc / the way-outline.html

the way-pocket manual.doc / the way-pocket manual.html

the way-template.doc / the way-template.html

world and experience.doc / world and experience.html

concepts.doc / concepts.html

concepts-details.doc / concepts-details.html

world and experience-supplementary edition.doc / world and experience-supplementary edition.html

Standard parts of the essay

preface and introduction.doc / preface and introduction.html

prologue.doc / prologue.html

epilogue.doc / epilogue.html

glossary—see concepts.doc / concepts.html

Main influences

main influences.doc / main influences.html

writers.doc / writers.html

Thinkers, ideas, schools

Actors

Search

search.doc / search.html

Topics

art, being, and becoming.doc / art, being, and becoming.html

being and co-elements.doc / being and co-elements.html

canonical dilemmas.doc / canonical dilemmas.html

civilization and society.doc / civilization and society.html

cosmology.doc / cosmology.html

criticisms of the metaphysics.doc / criticisms of the metaphysics.html

dedication-affirmation.doc / dedication-affirmation.html

doubt and reason.doc / doubt and reason.html

dreams and their significance.doc / dreams and their significance.html

on the idea of spirit.doc / on the idea of spirit.html

elements of being.doc / elements of being.html

experience.doc / experience.html

grammar.doc / grammar.html

language, meaning, and metaphysics.doc, / language, meaning, and metaphysics.html

life and its origins and evolution.doc / life and its origins and evolution.html

metaphysics with epistemology.doc / metaphysics with epistemology.html

paradigms of formation and dynamics.doc / paradigms of formation and dynamics.html

perfect metaphysics and epistemology.doc / perfect metaphysics and epistemology.html

politics and cultural economics.doc / politics and cultural economics.html

possibility.doc / possibility.html

the way - world problems and opportunities.doc / the way - world problems and opportunities.html

priorities for the way.doc / priorities for the way.html

psychology as science-experience through agency.doc / psychology as science-experience through agency.html

reason.doc / reason.html

system of human knowledge.doc / system of human knowledge.html

tradition.doc / tradition.html

Planning

priorities for the way.doc / priorities for the way.html—repeated from above; incorporate the following. ¿Then eliminate it from this document?

current sequence.doc / current sequence.html

twoweekplan.doc / twoweekplan.html

hiking list.doc / hiking list.html

site design.doc / site design.html

Alphabetic order

art, being, and becoming.doc / art, being, and becoming.html

amitra.html (and the entire site)

being and co-elements.doc / being and co-elements.html

canonical dilemmas.doc / canonical dilemmas.html

civilization and society.doc / civilization and society.html

concepts-details.doc / concepts-details.html

concepts.doc / concepts.html

cosmology.doc / cosmology.html

criticisms of the metaphysics.doc / criticisms of the metaphysics.html

current sequence.doc / current sequence.html

dedication-affirmation.doc / dedication-affirmation.html

doubt and reason.doc / doubt and reason.html

dreams and their significance.doc / dreams and their significance.html

editions of the way.doc / editions of the way.html

elements of being.doc / elements of being.html

epilogue.doc / epilogue.html

experience.doc / experience.html

grammar.doc / grammar.html

hiking list.doc / hiking list.html

index.doc / index.html

language, meaning, and metaphysics.doc / language, meaning, and metaphysics.html

life and its origins and evolution.doc / life and its origins and evolution.html

main influences.doc / main influences.html

metaphysics with epistemology.doc / metaphysics with epistemology.html

minimal version of the way.doc / minimal version of the way.html

on the idea of spirit.doc / on the idea of spirit.html

paradigms of formation and dynamics.doc / paradigms of formation and dynamics.html

perfect metaphysics and epistemology.doc / perfect metaphysics and epistemology.html

politics and cultural economics.doc / politics and cultural economics.html

possibility.doc / possibility.html

preface and introduction.doc / preface and introduction.html

priorities for the way.doc / priorities for the way.html

prologue.doc / prologue.html

psychology as science-experience through agency.doc / psychology as science-experience through agency.html

reason.doc / reason.html

search.doc / search.html

site design.doc / site design.html

system of human knowledge.doc / system of human knowledge.html

talks.doc / talks.html

the way-outline.doc / the way-outline.html

the way-pocket manual.doc / the way-pocket manual.html

the way-template.doc / the way-template.html

tradition.doc / tradition.html

twoweekplan.doc / twoweekplan.html

world and experience-supplementary edition.doc / world and experience-supplementary edition.html

world and experience.doc / world and experience.html

RESOURCE FILES

Some database files

Other database files may be included if they become significant resources

canonical dilemmas.doc / canonical dilemmas.html

doubt and reason.doc / doubt and reason.html

the way-outline.doc / the way-outline.html

the way-pocket manual.doc / the way-pocket manual.html

the way-template.doc / the way-template.html

possibility.doc / possibility.html

psychology as science-experience through agency.doc / psychology as science-experience through agency.html

system of human knowledge.doc / system of human knowledge.html

the way-main.doc / the way-main.html

tradition.doc / tradition.html

world and experience.doc / world and experience.html

Other resource files

argument.doc / argument.html

conceptual outline-essential.doc / conceptual outline-essential.html; concepts mined for concepts.doc / concepts.html

History of western philosophy.doc / History of western philosophy.html

words, language, metaphysics.html no document version

Archives and other listings

essays.html current essays page for The Way

index.html (previous home page for The Way)

editions of the way.doc / editions of the way.html