KNOWLEDGE DATABASE

© Anil Mitra, November 2013—November2013

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CONTENTS

BEING AND UNIVERSE   2

Being  2

Being  2

Signs and Symbols  3

Semiotics  3

Meaning  3

Metaphysics  3

Logic  3

Objects  3

Cosmology  3

Mathematics  3

Realism extended  4

Epistemology  4

Philosophy as process  4

Science  5

Physical science  5

Geology  5

Biology  5

Mind  5

Society  5

History  6

ARTIFACT   6

Art 6

Technology  6

Elements  6

Fields  6

Engineering  7

Religion and Faith  7

 

THE DATABASE

BEING AND UNIVERSE

Being

Being

Being, Experience, and Meaning

Signs and Symbols

Semiotics

Study of signs and sign behavior

Meaning

Concept, object, grammar

Word, language, descriptive grammar

Metaphysics

Nature and limitlessness of Being and Identity

Logic

Logic as realism

The old logic and science as Logic. The mesh of logic and science. Empirical nature

Objects

Cosmology

Mathematics

Computer and information science

Realism extended

Value—morals-ethics and aesthetics

Civil law

Epistemology

Pure and practical knowledge—metaphysics and science and their complementary nature is already addressed

Metaphysics—pure with doubt

Science—local fact vs. universal projection

Faith

Philosophy as process

Philosophy at the boundary of the known

Significance of history

Branches of philosophy included above

Humanities

Science

Physical science

Nature, behavior of energy and varieties of force and material object including physics, physical cosmology, and chemistry

Geology

Biology

Life—its nature and variety and origins of life and variety; Medicine

Mind

Foundation in experience

General theory of mind and consciousness

Study of psyche in its integration and its ‘functions;’ nature of mind

Society

Nature, institutions (groups) and change… and aspects including culture (institution of knowledge,) economics, political science and philosophy (and Law;)

History

ARTIFACT

Signs and symbols are on the border between being-universe and artifact. In the end, however, the distinction between artifact and nature is artificial.

Art

Nature and varieties (literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture…;)

Technology

Elements

Energy, tools and machines…

Fields

Agriculture, transportation, information, earth and space exploration…

Engineering

Religion and Faith

Literal and nature and varieties of non literal meaning and non meaning functions; religion, its nature and varieties: religions of the world—hunter gatherer and agriculture based societies, throughout pre-history and history. The concept of religion as knowledge and negotiation of the entire universe by the entire individual in all its faculties and modes of being. The relation of this concept to possible and potential realizations of as yet unnamed and un-thought ideational form