2008 EDITION
In process version with comments and planning
ANIL MITRA, COPYRIGHT © 2008
CONTENTS
PLANNING: A TEMPORARY DIVISION
Journey: origins, nature and scope… Being: an introduction
Sketch… On publication… Reading the narrative… The audience
Introduction to the Theory of being… Being… Metaphysics… Objects… Logic and meaning… Mind… Cosmology… Journey… Method
Human being… Social world… Civilization… Faith
Introduction to a possible structure
Introduction… Philosophy and metaphysics… A system of human knowledge
Introduction… History of transformation… Basis and theory of transformation… System of experiments… Transformations so far and their further Design
Program of research and experiment in the modes and means of transformation… Design… The way ahead
Issue and function of reference… Reference in this essay… Select sources
JOURNEY IN BEING
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Planning issues outline, planning and design, topics to put in one or two places, Weblog destination, concepts, and concepts-succinct
PLANNING: A TEMPORARY DIVISION
Think about the needs and the outline of this document before minimizing-consolidating the sources:-
Modifications—see topics to put in one or two places
Use MS Word styles to define in-process and final versions for (1) Detail levels—done (2) Audiences—Normal Specialist, Normal Philosopher, Normal Lay… (3) Content versus design and comment… Note: make sure that word styles are formatted properly in .html; automate this
Decide on narrative styles, ‘he,’ ‘Anil,’ ‘they’…, e.g., have a narrator and a subject, e.g., ‘Anil.’ Then write & paste to this document. Deal with ‘they’ and ‘their.’ Replace the acronym ‘Jhang’ in all documents. Narrative versus essay versus book versus text versus piece… the present choice is ‘narrative’ but this may be replaced by another choice; alternately no term will be used exclusively but the choice will be by whatever serves the immediate purpose. Formal versus personal style
Writing: (1) Brief and detailed outlines. (2) Skeleton version. (3) Talk / email / advertise / guide. (4) Detailed version—possibly in two or more volumes, e.g., Ideas, Experiments, Synthesis, and Action. Shorten the longest chapters—Being and Metaphysics. Write with styles and other codes that enable (a) extraction of the skeletal versions, (b) perhaps versions of various lengths, (c) perhaps talk / guide, (d) versions for various audiences, (e) metaphysics / theory of being…, (f) design and planning, and (g) autobiography and autobiography versus story (novel, myth)
Sources for outline ® writing. (1) This. (2) Temp2008 directory. (3) Versions with section level outlines—JIB 06 and Journey in Being-New World-essence.html with its plans made essential per plan. (4) Principles of design and possibilities for reading and study. Eliminate unnecessary sources
Save this as C:\My Documents\Journey in Being.html—title Journey in Being™… relocate displaced documents
Incorporate or link as appropriate from Journey in Being-New World-essence.html: the important aspects of First things, Legend, Introduction to a picture of the world
The details for this part are in introduction.html and may be imported or linked
There must be a quick orientation to both Journey and Narrative
The title of this section was A brief motivation from the metaphysics. The present plan is to make this section as brief and as simple as can be and make the point
Seek a better title. Lengthen it to ‘An orientation to the narrative.’? ‘Narrative’ versus ‘essay’ versus ‘piece’…
This section is, tentatively, a sketch of the journey and an outline of the narrative
Contents. Outline or map
Sources and contents to include: On the viewpoint and narrative and their difficulties… and include (a) ‘The picture,’ (b) the problem of proof…
The purpose of this section is to lessen the difficulty of understanding that readers may face by alerting them to the possible difficulties. The next section has suggestions on negotiating the difficulties
The narrative contains a deepening—in significant ways ultimate—of foundations of knowledge and being and may therefore present difficulties of understanding. Although some difficulties may be technical, a significant difficulty may lie in recognizing that a new picture of the world—a metaphysics—is painted and in grasping the logical foundation and quality of that picture and of the immense variety of being portrayed within and shown necessary by it. This difficulty may be especially acute for those immersed in the traditional pictures, e.g., from Western philosophy, metaphysics and science—i.e., for academics and experts
When a narrative is expected to present difficulties of understanding, it is helpful to the reader to have some acquaintance with the presence of the difficulties and their nature
Sources: Foundation
Sources: being
The locations of Being through Cosmology are unchanged from Journey in Being-New World-essence.html.
There are ideas for modifications to: Being | Metaphysics—minor changes—tropes ( E. J. Lowe’s web article Recent advances in metaphysics) eliminate the advance treatments of Objects, Logic… and transfer essential material to the particular chapters leaving, perhaps, one general stem in Metaphysics | Logic—the entire system of consistent propositions. See the sources, Plan and secondary links for details
An outline of the development from experience
That there are universal ‘elements’ whether named, experienced as such, or experienced only implicitly
These elements are necessary
And entail, of necessity, a metaphysics:
The metaphysics of experience
Whose depth and breadth are ultimate
…
For is not all ultimately in experience in some way? (That which is outside experience is named in experience—‘that which is outside experience!)
And what lies ahead, lies ahead in future experience…
That it is exciting the only fiction is that which harbors contradiction—which is outside Logic. And if Logic is ultimate in paucity of what it excludes it is ultimate in the richness of what it permits
And if what is merely possible is too unlikely, then what is feasible and worthwhile is even more exciting for it involves high creation over and above mere adventure
It is important to note that the introduction of being-as-being, being-as-existence, and experience are not counter to the purpose of not introducing substance, not regarding the nature of the world as something else… of seeing the nature of things, first, as—immanent in—the world
Note that the foregoing neither eliminates nor requires substance or essence or nature at the outset, i.e., it is neutral in these regards and allows any non-neutrality to be the outcome of investigation
What is a Theory of being? The question has two sides. The first side concerns the idea of a Theory of being and the second is about its content
The two sides above correspond to the ‘sense’ and ‘reference’ or ‘concept’ and ‘object’ sides of—linguistic—meaning. The distinction is crucial to the concept of meaning and to understanding concepts. It is considered in detail in the later discussions of meaning
The idea of ‘Being’ is ‘whatever is in the world.’ (Use of ‘B’ rather than ‘b’ is simply to point out that a concept is being employed in a way that is perhaps more than casual.) Perhaps whatever is in the world is made of matter. Although this is perhaps the modern scientific and secular sentiment, certainly not every thinker would agree. And even if one agrees there is then the question ‘What is matter?’ Science does not answer this question or claim to answer it. So the claim that ‘everything is made of matter’ is not clearly true and, in any case, is not a complete explanation of whatever is in the world—or even a part of such an explanation. Perhaps there is no explanation. Perhaps there is. Perhaps the way to find out is try to do so. That would not be counter-scientific but parallel to science or, in a broader sense, inclusive of science—at least in principle and in so far as science is valid
How might the search for explanation be approached? Something would be different from science—from scientific materialism. The explanation would still be empirical, would probably still employ concepts. The discussion already suggests what might be different. Look at the world. It does not appear to be made up of the fundamental forces and particles of modern physics. In a sense part of the approach of modern physics is to describe the world in terms of something else. The alternative would be to not refer the world to something else
This suggests a refinement to the idea of Being: it is whatever is in the world just by being in the world… or perhaps, Being is the quality of being in the world. The latter use is rather like ‘things are material’ or ‘things have the quality of being material’
It might seem that the idea of being (one tires of using ‘B’) is not much ‘what is there is what is there!’ That is where the developments that follow hold an immense surprise. The developments from this plain beginning are enormous. It is not enough to say they are profound—profundity signifies depth, perhaps. The outcome is not merely deep but it is that what is ultimately deep is also ultimately shallow and that there is no entity or kind that is not implicitly included. Of course, these developments are not the result of ‘what is there is there’ alone but of imagination and careful reflection. However, one source of power is already in hand. It saying that the world is not made up of matter it is not being said that it is made of something else. It is not being said that the world is being made of anything at all. The nature of the world, if any, will fall out of our researches. Since there is no advance commitment, the approach does not begin with the kind of mistake to which substance theories are subject
Perhaps the casual use is the best use—being is what is there (or, to be just a little bit Heideggeresque—the philosopher Heidegger would indulge in unusual but suggestive coinages of words—out there ‘Being is there-ness.’) ‘There-ness’ will not be used here but it will reappear as a carefully formulated idea
What, then, is the (or a) Theory of being? It will not be that the nature of the world is something ‘more fundamental’ as in science or something else or, as in some religions, something outside the world, for example, ‘God the creator.’ This idea will be taken up in detail in discussing ‘substance theory’ where the idea of substance as ‘underlying’ the world will be shown to be untenable
One thing is clear. In talking of the world as or having being, the criticism of referring to or explaining in terms of something else cannot be made. And it is would be a deep criticism for the next concern would be ‘what is that something else?’ This is how use of being cuts the Gordian knot of substance; how being cuts the endless chain of explanation at something real. Since the world is referred to itself perhaps the gain is a loss—nothing is truly explained in saying ‘the world is itself.’ This is the surprise. Something is gained—as noted above. In saying things have a deep explanation there nature is referred to something else which may harbor error; in not making the deep reference that possibility of error is blocked. Simultaneously, the possibility of looking at what is ‘immediate’ is opened up and this has, at least, the potential of opening up understanding. The story of Foundation is one story of an opening up of understanding
If it is not to begin with something else, it will begin with what is immediate. What exists is immediate, not in that everything that exists is close by, but in that it is not being said that it is something else. ‘Existence’ is another word for—or at least close in meaning to—being. So it seems that not much is being said in introducing existence. The concept of existence has been subject to much scrutiny and criticism, e.g., since ‘everything exists’ existence does not really mean anything at all; there are other fundamental criticisms taken up later. However, something is gained. Addressing the criticisms will lead to much clarification of the meaning and uses of being and of existence
What exists? Does my worktable exist? It has a flat top and four legs and has a certain geometry. But I also think it is made up of atoms and forces and so on. Is it those? And if so, what does that mean for the geometrical solid shape that I experience the table as having? Obviously the table—something corresponding to my idea of the table—exists but I don’t know precisely what it is. Is there anything that I know that exists? The universe exists! I do not know all the details of it and from the example of my table I may not know any of the details but I do not need to know them. In saying that the universe exists I am not referring to the details. The universe, then, is roughly ‘all being’ and this term is used a lot in the narrative so readers should not confuse it with other uses such as in the phrase ‘multiple universes.’ In the present use there is one universe and there is nothing outside it. Immediately it follows that it has no outside creator
Here is one doubt. There is an experience of the universe (all being) but perhaps experience is all there is. In the example of the table, experience was to not be a certain guide—this is of course common knowledge. Discussion of ‘experience’ is taken up later. One aspect of the discussion is to show the intimate weave of existence and person (it is nowhere going to be said that being perceived is required for or confers existence—at least in the naïve meanings of the terms used.) This is another place that the kind of analysis done here is different from that of science. Experience or perception is analyzed in grounding science but, as far as possible, the aim is to show the truth of science as outside the subjective realm. Here, instead, the aim is to analyze what overlap there may be between the objective and the subjective and this line of thought will lead into showing the empirical nature of the Theory of being and to show where analysis and experience meet and this leads, in addition to the weave of being and person, to the empirical-rational character of the Theory of being. It is relevant to note that nowhere is it said that objective truth is grounded in mere experience. The philosopher Immanuel Kant had an idea that could be interpreted as follows. Since we live in and negotiate in this world our experience of it in perception, emotion and thought must have some reliability even though it is not perfect and even if the nature of the correspondence (reliability) is not clear. The evolutionary thought of Charles Darwin adds something to this. It sees ‘imperfection’ as ‘being in a process of adaptation’ where perfect attunement to an environment is not so much impossible as lacking in meaning
Discussion began with ‘what is there;’ and continued with ‘how can what is there be explained;’ the idea of existence was introduced; the question whether I know anything that exists precisely and surely was entertained. The outcome was that there is one thing that I know for sure exists—the universe; and it was discovered that it has no creator (on the reasonable thought that a creator is an external creator.) A thought about the reliability of experience leads to some understanding of the nature of experience and to the relation between individual and world
The outcome of discussion so far is not a Theory of being but it seems as though it may be part of such a theory
The discussion so far has glossed over numerous difficulties—some mentioned, others not. These will be brought up and dealt with in what follows. Some of the ‘problems’ may seem like quibbles. ‘Does the table exist?’ Of course to doubt the table in a practical way would be neurotic. However, philosophic doubt, as has already been seen in a small way, may lead to profound understanding—this is well known. In this narrative it will be found that profound results may occur as well and this is contrary to much contemporary thought—analysis of ideas leads to clarification, for results we turn to practical knowledge and science
What, then, is a Theory of being? In the sense of being hypothetical it is not a theory at all. Its process is the process of looking at the world as it presents and reflecting on what is known and can be known in immediate terms. Of course, there is no reason to exclude science except in dogmatic forms and the development often draws from science in various ways. However there is an emphasis being-as-being and this, as seen, goes rather outside science which often sees the world in ‘other’ terms
A look at the contents of the division Theory of being suggests what the content may be. Two dimensions are ‘depth’ and ‘breadth.’ The depth which is seen to be quite shallow (and it is in the shallowness that some profundity lies) is in the analysis of the nature of immediate things: the contents of chapters Being, Objects, Logic and meaning, and, to some extent, the contents of Mind and of Method. The breadth or variety concerns what variety of things and kinds of thing are there: the content of Cosmology. The discussions above show beginnings of how these topics may be approached and just a brief hint of results; the logic and the detail is left for the narrative
A short reflection on ‘what there is in the world’ may be interesting. In addition to things such as trees, mountains and galaxies there is also behavior and there are also laws. Obviously, behavior is in the world. A law of nature is a more or less general verbal or mathematical expression of patterns, behaviors and dynamics in the world. Is a law in the world? If a law is valid then it corresponds to something of the world, not something else, that may be called Law and is in the world. Next consider numbers. One apple is in the world, more precisely there is one apple (and more) on the apple tree. But where is the number one? Is it anywhere? Numbers are an example of what have been called abstract objects. In today’s thought there is no full agreement on the nature of abstract objects and their relation to the non-abstract or particular objects such as apples and stars. In the developments that follow it will be shown that the distinction between particular and abstract objects is artificial. Abstract objects are in the world as is behavior. A form like a number is also and abstract object and is therefore in the world. Where are the abstract objects? The considerations taken up later show that contrary to most current thought abstract objects may have spatial location and temporal being; in the more abstract objects the spatial and temporal character is not of consequence. Consideration of ‘what there is in the world’ reveals that there are not only things, but laws, patterns, forms, mathematical objects and many other kinds taken up later
Consider the void. It is what is left when the universe or world is ‘taken away.’ The idea has difficulties for how can the universe are ‘taken away?’ Such concerns are addressed later (the ‘taking away’ is conceptual.) Since all laws are in the world, there are no laws in the void. Therefore the void can transform to (or annihilate) any state except logically impossible states, i.e., those whose description or concept has a contradiction; therefore any logically possible state exists or will exist and will transform to any other
That every logically possible state exists is a critical idea in showing that particular and abstract objects are not distinct
These thoughts encourage and conjure up ideas of paradox and more; these concerns are addressed in the narrative
Imagine, now, the universe of possibilities that arises. It is possible to speak meaningfully on the variety of things and kinds in the universe, on karma, on recurrence, on God and identity, on the identities of and among individuals…
But what then of science and ‘common sense’ and practical experience? Surely ‘anything is possible’ is absurd. The narrative resolves the absurdity, preserves science and practical knowledge but modifies their interpretation in a way that is consistent with their own principles, and develops implications: these ideas inform every chapter of the text including the variety noted above and that is on display in greater scope and detail in Cosmology. Thus not only it is possible to speak meaningfully on the variety of things and kinds in the universe… but the logic permits this talk to be definitive; the developments in identity provides significance to ‘mere’ facts
There is a story of a disciple who was excited to learn from his teacher that God is in all things. The disciple sees an elephant walking toward him and thinks the exhilarating thought ‘God is in me, I don’t need to move.’ Later, bruised in body and ego, he complains to the teacher about the teaching. The teacher says ‘Yes, God is in you but why didn’t the God in you see the God in the elephant and move out of the way?’ This is the ‘paradox’ of ultimate truth immanent in the present. One may have to learn how to walk that path carefully. There is ultimate truth but the immediate world is no less real for it. Truth revealed shows not just itself but how to relate to this world as well; this concern is addressed in many traditional religions. In this narrative a logic of the side-by-side character of the ultimate and the immediate is developed; this can only help the intuition in accommodating to the real
Do the developments constitute A theory of being or The theory of being? What is said is not hypothetical; it is grounded, factual and logical; it is ultimate in depth, i.e., it requires no infinite regress or further support; it is ultimate in breadth, i.e., every entity and kind is implicit in it; it weaves together the inner and outer worlds—experience and existence. In these ways it is The theory…
There may of course be alternate formulations of the theory; some alternatives are explored in the narrative. If any other theory has valid parts, those parts must be implicit in the theory
The goals of this division include development of a metaphysics. The metaphysics developed—metaphysics of immanence—will be shown to be ultimate in depth and breadth and Being will emerge as its focal concept
The necessity and significance of being and its theory depends on what is included in the concept and what is excluded; this significance will become clear in what follows
The developments depend not only on inclusion and exclusion but also diligence in incorporating experience into the ideas. It is essential of course that the experience to be incorporated is not mere experience or any or every item of experience. The experience to be incorporated must be necessary—in some appropriate sense
It will also be necessary to articulate and demonstrate the validity of this sense
Sources: being
Note that, in the Journey in Being-New World-essence.html version, the chapters Being and Metaphysics are perhaps excessively long. The problem may be resolved by (1) eliminating redundancy in each chapter, (2) eliminating repetition among the two chapters, (3) optimizing the expression and streamlining the flow of ideas, (4) marking topics and paragraphs that may be eliminated in a brief version
It is planned to have two discussions of substance or essence. The first is the one above in the introductory paragraphs of Being. The second shall be in Metaphysics, where the problem is resolved
The discussions of substance may be reduced to the minimum needed to make the points that (1) there is an extensive tradition of substance theory in philosophy, (2) that substance theory as the idea that the world-is-something-else is untenable, and (3) that this suggests being, i.e., world-as-world
The material on substance theory may, perhaps, be placed in Metaphysics
This is the place to introduce concept (and word) versus object—and sense versus reference, connotation versus denotation, and intension versus extension
Even the existent object is paradoxical without the resolution
Note that the problem might have been ‘what things exist’ and that is not bad except it is efficient to extend thing to kind of thing
There is a further essential extension that concerns the meaning of ‘thing.’ Often ‘thing’ refers to something concrete or particular. However there are ethereal ‘things’ such as air; these two should be included but the extension of the sense of ‘thing’ required to include air is not significant. Are ghosts included? If ghosts exist then, certainly, they are. What of abstract ‘things’ such as numbers, values, properties, kinds, partial things, forms, ideas, sentences, grammar, logic and logics, abstractions… Here we are primarily concerned with particular things, e.g., a person, the atmosphere… The notion of existence is elaborated in Metaphysics and Objects where the criteria of existence and the concepts of particular and abstract objects are developed. The idea of the abstract object is developed in a way that leaves by the wayside the vagueness and the sense of unreality of abstract objects that marks most writing on the subject. The distinction between abstract and particular objects will be seen to be one of approach to study rather than essence and existence of an array of abstract and particular objects of unexpected breadth demonstrated with surprising definitiveness
Critique of the meaning and significance of faithfulness and of knowledge as knowing-the-object. Subsumption of the general case of the concept, e.g., even in primitive organisms and elementary particles under the ‘practical object’
The discussion focuses on the forms of experience:
Here there is a discussion of the forms…
The tentative and partial treatment of this section is to be incorporated
Refer back to concept and object
Discussion of meaning at this point is appropriate and useful. However, the formal discussion of meaning is in Logic and meaning. Therefore the title to this section could be Epilogue: On meaning
Sources: metaphysics, substance, emotion and cognition
A fair amount of metaphysics was done in the 2007 version. It may be effective to import—a significant part of—that material to this chapter
Note that, in the Journey in Being-New World-essence.html version, the chapters Being and Metaphysics are perhaps excessively long. The problem may be resolved by (1) eliminating redundancy in each chapter, (2) eliminating repetition among the two chapters, (3) optimizing the expression and streamlining the flow of ideas, (4) marking topics and paragraphs that may be eliminated in a brief version
Sources: objects, empiricism-rationalism
Sources: logic
Source: cosmology
Note that if the topics being through cosmology were treated as metaphysics and if principles of thought combined with method, then the topics might be: Metaphysics, Journey, and Method
The following topics are relocated from other divisions:
Source: journey
Note. It is important that Method, Principles of thought, Human world—especially Faith, Ideas, and Transformation should come after Journey
Journey was the chapter, The idea of a journey from the part Journey of Journey in Being-New World-essence.html. Think about the following topics… Is Narrative necessary? Should it go somewhere else?
This was ‘The idea of a journey’ and was a division in the part ‘Journey in being’ which was called, simply, ‘Journey.’ Here, ‘Journey’ (rather than ‘Journey in being’) is appropriate because it is the idea that is being discussed. The title of this chapter could be ‘The idea of a journey’ or ‘The idea of the journey’
The following may go to the part Journey in being
Comment. Faith could be here but can be more complete in Human world. Placement of some of its parts would be relevant here to the content of Foundation, especially to Metaphysics, Objects, Cosmology, Journey and Method. However, placement in Human world makes it otherwise more relevant. Make a note of this here
Source: emotion and cognition
Think about the occurrence, names and content of these topics:
It may be natural to emphasize the human world but the topic is our world inclusive of the forms of life, matter and relationship
Modify Economics in light of recent reading
Source: ethics and action
Can the name of this chapter be improved? Matrix, web…? Content: it combines War and peace (applied ethics and the artificiality of problem and disciplinary boundaries—emphasizing that this artificiality not only limits understanding but—crucially—address,) Civilization and history, and The highest ideal of Journey in Being-New World-essence.html
Address ‘state of the world’
The new chapter ‘Civilization’ was called ‘Civilization and history’ and now also includes the material of the old chapters ‘War and peace’ and the ‘Highest ideal.’
Perhaps ‘Civilization’ should be divided into sections ‘History’ or ‘Civilization and history’ and ‘War and peace’ or ‘Applied ethics’ or, better, ‘Ethics in action’ which would emphasize the inseparability of ethics from action and experiment and the artificiality of contrived andor isolated examples, and ‘The highest ideal’
The following section titles are very tentative
Possible content—the old chapter Civilization and history
Possible content—the old chapter War and peace
Includes ‘state of the world’
Sources: faith
Modify Faith, certainly, especially noting the joint effect of Theory of being and the burden imposed by the traditional cosmologies—mythic, religious, and scientific | Place Faith-Objects in Objects with possible stem left in Faith
This part has been streamlined. The division ‘The idea of a journey’ has been moved to the part ‘Foundation:’ this is appropriate because ‘Journey’ and ‘Metaphysics’ have a join. This part, ‘Journey in being,’ then, is about the actual journey rather than the idea or concept of the journey. It is important, that both idea and actual journey encompass individual journeys and the universe as journey, that the journeys constitute the journey, and that universe-as-journey has advantages over the ideas of universe as being andor becoming
Introduction to a possible structure
Note. This may go to the outline as a labeled or unlabeled Introduction or Preliminary
An individual journey
Experiment, thought, selection and rejection
An interactive process of transformation
Ideas—a form of transformation that include feeling, emotion and adventure—discovery of the possible and the feasible
Transformations of body and identity
The journey
= the sum of the individual journeys that include even the ‘trajectories’ of elementary particles
= the sum of individual identities = Identity
Note that the old part, Journey in being, is now divided into a chapter, Journey, above, and the part Journey in being, whose divisions are Ideas, and Transformation, below. It is important that Journey comes before the chapter, Philosophy and metaphysics and, perhaps also, A system of human knowledge
It is not necessary that Ideas should come after Transformation. This because of the earlier placement of Journey includes development and discussion of the essential role of ‘action’
A separate and titled introduction to this division may be unnecessary
Review the point to these introductions…
Reflect on the following section title
Can the title be and improved? Another version is What philosophy is and how to think about such issues. The two parts of this title interact dynamically. Can it be shortened?
…and, more, generally about such conceptual-definitional issues
Incomplete with putting the approaches into practice and therefore must include actual reflection on the nature of philosophy and metaphysics
…these are, however, preliminary and set up the following sections in which it is possible to be—more—definitive and to judge other slanted characterizations based in special interest or in premature or slanted if natural estimates of what it is possible to know, to be and to become
Comment on the possibility and realization of definitive treatment of this section and the next and of the relation between the two sections and the two possibilities
Modifications in light of Theory of being and the concept of the Journey
Comment on the completeness of the system—to the extent that completeness obtains… and on the resolution of the essential problems of metaphysics—classical, modern and recent… which resolutions are executed and listed
Think about the topics:
Also discussed in First things
The kinds of form
…and holism
…to see, while looking at the universe, what the path may suggest
…perhaps, as alternative, to embark on another venture
Is this topic—division—at odds with the nature of—this—narrative? The following sub-topics or chapters… see the earlier discussion of publication (On publication)
Review—
Is this section at odds with the nature of the narrative?
Possible
An index may be sufficient. Consider sectioning as follows
Should I arrange this by division and chapter? Should I consider only the most important topics?
Include? Weave in? Possible topics