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The Way of Being [ to previous version ] | [ to recent detailed outlines ] Contents 1.2.1 Center – out presentation 1.4.1 Overview – representation and reality 1.4.6 Limitlessness and metaphysics 1.4.7 Cosmology (metaphysics continued)
Chapter 1. This version1.1 Net plan for the version1.1.1 MainWill 1. Replace outline of the way.html., whose resources, study topics, sources… are to be minimally imported 2. Have a minimal presentation embedded in elaborate detail (the latter will include formal, explanatory, historical and other elements – see concept template). 3. Be concept driven (what this means), with dynamically revisable concept ordering. 4. Have a concept template (including alternative terms, group, individual, me, enlightenment—do these terms need placement? 5. Absorb material from concepts - detail.html, perhaps as part of the previous item. 6. Have the parallel topics be part of the main development, but fully developed only in a parallel topics part. 7. Have a ‘center – out’ / ‘top – down’ presentation. 8. Import things to do and import—sources, find sources, study topics, comments, etc—after concept driven outline, dynamic reorganization, and setting up a hierarchical database of concepts and alternat terms. 1.1.2 Immediate1. Summary - main concepts; concept reordering and re-hierarchizing and database 2. Concepts: template them, perhaps in a separate document 3. More on realization 4. More 'to do' in net plan—done in part. 1.1.3 Plan1. Redo and unitize plan. 2. Now: concept supplement. 3. Main concepts and dynamic reordering. 4. Main outline. 5. Import discussion, study topics, comments 1.2 Focus and minimality1.2.1 Center – out presentationAt the core of the center – out presentation is a worldview of the immediate and the ultimate as one with pathways of enlightenment for living with attention to material and ultimate aspects of individuals, societies, and the world. 1.2.2 Minimality and detailAn aim of the narrative is to achieve minimality with elaborate detail. Minimality is achieved by equating center – out and top – down presentation. Detail is achieved by building up the system of concepts around the center – out and by adding to the concept system. The minimal versions are generated by using MS Word styles, which enables capture in tables of contents at a range of levels of detail. 1.3 Concept templateNature, definition, and significance, of the concept or system of concepts. Alternate terms and reasons for the choice. Relation to received meanings and reasons for differences. Place in the hierarchical structure of the concepts. Database. 1.4 System of conceptsSee concepts - detail.docm (html). 1.4.1 Overview – representation and reality
Comment 1. It is essential to explain what this means and what its basis is. The basis is the real metaphysics of limitlessness which (i) agrees with our experiential sense of the real in its own domain but (ii) allows and requires limitlessness for the universe. This means that though our sense of finitude and separate identity is ‘real’ within our cosmos, we merge with ultimate universal identity above time and approximations thereof over sufficiently large times. The sign ‘=’ means equivalence and ‘>’ is transforms to or merges with. 1.4.2 Experienceexperience (experience-of or mind-like, the experienced or object-like or matter-like, relation; sensation, sentience, feeling, perception, thought, self-knowledge, agency), value, concept (referential form – related to intentionality, referential concept), definition (real, linguistic / axiomatic; circularity of definition and escape), object, meaning, abstraction, knowledge (what – adequacy of representation – pure and pragmatic, for the present purpose; how, criteria; ordinary knowledge, philosophy of perfection and its problems and pure-pragmatic resolution), method, reason (rationality, pure-pragmatic) Comment 2. combine and minimize method / reason / rationality / pure and pragmatic Comment 3. abstraction does not necessarily de-concretize the referent or result in an abstract object (more on this later). Comment 4. in contrast to linguistic definitions, in real definitions one locates things or kinds in the world, find words to specify them, show the specification is valid, and name them; one approach to locating an object and showing validity is abstraction. 1.4.3 Beinga being (plural: beings), being (existence), metaphysics, foundation (substance, infinitism, regress, self – superficial vs deep / trivial vs powerful, modal – e.g., necessity), grounding (constitutive determination or explanation) Comment 5. it should be shown that knowledge—content and method—is immanent in being, perfectly at the ideal (abstracted) level and pragmatically at the concrete level; ideally, the demonstration or ‘showing’ shall be immanent in the concepts 1.4.4 Beingsexperiential (self, other), (experiential) hierarchy (primitive; societies, world; experiential—animal / person / human—god / God / peak / greatest / ultimate), dimensions of being (categories), real, universe, cosmos, law (natural), the void 1.4.5 Possibilitypossibility (impossibility), coherent possibility, real possibility, natural possibility, possible being, contingent being, necessary being (relative, logical / absolute) 1.4.6 Limitlessness and metaphysicsexistence (extended to the void), dialetheia, limitlessness of the universe (fundamental principle of metaphysics), ideal metaphysics, real metaphysics, doubt (knowing-doubt) 1.4.7 Cosmology (metaphysics continued)cosmology, general cosmology, concrete objects, abstract objects, value (ethical, aesthetic, significant – in the sense of the ‘meaning of life’), cosmology of form and formation (paradigmatic principle, sameness, difference, identity, extension-displacement-space – relation-being – duration-change-time, space-being-time, properties), experiential cosmology (hierarchy, peak, god, gods), physical cosmology, pure dimension of being, pragmatic dimension of being: nature (experiential, living) society (individuals and groups, economics and politics, law, culture, religion), universal Topic 1. The experiential aspect of nature is (as if of) matter and mind. What are politics and economics and how do they join or interact? What are forces of social division and unity and what is the nature of their interaction – stable or otherwise? What is the law? Comment 6. on concrete and abstract objects—a received view is that while concrete objects are ones that we sense, take part in causation, and are located in space and time, the status of abstract objects, while they exist, is in question; yet one view is that they are conceived, rather than perceived; here, abstract and concrete objects have the same kind of existential status, that both partake of abstraction and concretion, but the more abstract objects have aspects of existence filtered out in abstraction—thus objects can be more and less abstract; there is, however, a difference in how we treat the more abstract objects such as number (for example); since number has had causation and spatiotemporality filtered out they are not sensed and are therefore (today) usually defined in abstract terms, i.e., by specifying undefined terms, definitions, axioms, and rules of inference; which means that their existence and nature is not guaranteed and must be investigated, e.g., by studying the system as well as systems of inference as objects – and by developing formal methods of such study 1.4.8 System of knowledgeComment 7. Knowledge was discussed in experience, above; the aim here is to discuss the extent of knowledge, the disciplines, their nature, their relations, how they constitute a system; and how all that informs the individual disciplines disciplines, over-discipline, general logic (with art), system 1.4.9 Realization1.4.9.1 Pathwaysthe way of being, pathways (lifeways), pure and pragmatic, mind and object aspects of experience; (human) being, peak being (god, gods, ultimates, all-possible-being-as-one) 1.4.9.2 Pleasure and painpleasure, pain, enlightenment (contentment, mutual vs external salvation; intelligent, shared negotiation; therapy; healthy living – physical, mental, communal, and spiritual); process through rather than around pleasure and pain) 1.4.9.3 Programprogram (everyday, universal), dedication, affirmation, commitment with acceptance of pleasure and pain |