Star* marks concepts that are repeated, developed, and/or defined in stages, at different locations, in increasing breadth and/or depth. Typical reasons for this include (i) the concept is introduced from ordinary experience (ii) the developments make for greater scope.

A dagger† marks a concept whose definition here is quite different from its standard use(s).

A question mark (?) indicates a concept regarding which there is an issue of entry, form, definiteness (incomplete definiteness is not in itself problematic).

Red font marks concepts that are not yet entered to essence of the way - micro.docm at the location of the particular instance of the concept in the concept list.

Base concepts

To incorporate (terms needing study and / or inclusion)

understanding

as-if (signifies neutral stance to reality, but allows for limited usefulness)

Into the way

world

into (focus – reflection, but not rejection of the world)

world

experience*

phenomenal

ground (partial)

accepting

living in

stirring

seeking

real

value (significance, meaning of life)

knowledge

foundation (incomplete, proximate)

understanding

empiricism, rationalism

art

action

worldviews

worldviews (limits), received

secular (common, science, naturalistic metaphysics)

transsecular (religion, special metaphysics, theology)

method

method* (is content)

foundation (proximate, ultimate)

doubt and certainty

criticism and imagination

essence, substance—issues of (i) prejudice (ii) numericity; kind – e.g., mind, matter (iii) mode – e.g., entity, process, relation)

meaning

content

abstraction* (and perfect vs pragmatic knowledge)

reason

Being

being (existence, neutrality, vehicle, potency)

existence

abstraction

beings (all, some, none)

universe

limits (conceptual), limitlessness (vs the infinite)

ultimate

cosmos

law (pattern)

the void (issue: non-numericity, existence, no laws)

Metaphysics

possibility

actuality

possibility (the concept, kinds – unqualified, logical, metaphysical, real, relatively real, physical, greatest)

the ultimate

limitlessness

metaphysics

metametaphysics

system (imposed v emergent; distinction and unity in and of knowledge and action)

real metaphysics

pragmatic knowledge

real metaphysics

value

levels of knowledge

method

method (informal but careful use of conceptual and linguistic representation, establishment of fact and elementary inference, deductive and ampliative)

building (metaphysics)

reflexivity†

fact (true piece of information ranging from simple to theories and metaphysical systems, established by observation, corroboration, probability, necessity, or inference from another fact)

inference (showing the truth a fact from another fact, called conclusion and premise respectively; in deduction, the conclusion necessarily follows, e.g., propositional calculus and extensions including multivalued and ‘dialetheic’ logics; in ampliative inference, the conclusion is reasonable, e.g., induction, abduction, and analogy)

argument (general process of establishment of facts, directly and by inference)

experience

experience (what it is; the concepts of concept and object; meaning, language, intention)

language (expression, expressive power, semantics, syntax)

knowledge (what it is, kinds – knowing that vs knowing how; acquisition; creation—discovery and imagination, justification and criticism; reflexivity)

dimensions (of being)

categories, relation to

dimensions (of being)

object (natural, social, universal)

subject (experience and its dimensions)

paradigms (of being)

robust world (or being)

means (of becoming)

cosmology

logical (i.e., general cosmology)

form and formation

experiential (cosmology and hierarchy of experiential being, which includes as-if cases of material, inert, and passive being)

peak (includes god)

physical

endeavor of being

Comment 1. Should this be placed elsewhere – perhaps much earlier?

knowledge

value

action

realization

Pathways

path

goal (realization, process toward the ultimate in this world and beyond)

means (integration of the elements of being and experience, program)

the elements

general

be-ing – becoming (state – process)

immediate – ultimate (local – universal)

self – other

pure – pragmatic (see dimensions of being for details)

experiential

subject – experience – object (see discussion of experience for details), particularly

cognition (thought, perception) – awareness – feeling (emotion, sensation, pleasure, pain, suffering) – intention – action

unavoidability (of the elements of experience, especially pleasure, pain, and suffering)

matter (body, world) – mind (as-if)

miscellaneous (to be categorized)

therapy

enlightenment

intelligence

received ways

program

emphases

personal (local, communal, day through life)

universal (global, universal, life and beyond)

dimensions (of being and process, with paradigms and means)

healthy living (self, community, spirit; attention to pain and action, optimal)

sharing (helping, networking, contacts, therapy)

discipline (spontaneity)

planning

routine

plan

timeline

action

personal – yoga (practice, action), work, family and community

universal – natural, social (economics, politics, culture, artifact – technology of being and exploration), universal (metaphysics, science, spiritual action)

discipline

Return (complement to ‘into the world’)

return (focus – informed being, not rejection of reflection)

freshness (alive to the world, grounded and groundless)

informed (ground, foundation, direction, destination)

integration (especially of the immediate and the ultimate)

shared endeavor

ground (world as)

foundation (being in the world as)