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Being and its Categories For The Way of Being Anil Mitra © March 2018—July 2018 Contents Why Being? Its categorial neutrality! The concept of Being is trivial yet deep—and powerful How is experience interpreted as the world? How do we know that we understand Being?
Being and its Categories BeingWhy Being? Its categorial neutrality!Power is its single measureExperience is a measure too because it is an aspect of powerEliminates need for arbitrary kinds, substances, and essencesA vehicle for all general kinds and kinds of special signiricanceExample—The ultimateExample—SentienceExample—The kind that can know BeingBeing empowers an ultimate metaphysicsWhat is the concept of Being?That which may be predicated by a form of the verb to be but without further predicateWhat is the nature of BeingIt is distinct from beings except that in further abstraction Being and beings are not distinctIt predicates existence without necessary regard to time and placeThat which has Being has existence or existsWhat are beings?Without further predication they are the most general existentsMay be further predicated by terms such as thing, relation, process, quality, number, gender, location, time, trope, … human, beings that know BeingThe concept of Being is trivial yet deep—and powerfulIf all logical possibility obtains then we are ultimate; but given any being there is a higher sentient being; to which we are identicalIs there Being?Why is there Being?Must there be Being?Is there experience?Why?Must there be experience?How is experience interpreted as the world?Existential reasonsHow do we know all this?How do we have knowledge?What is knowledge?How do we know that we understand Being?We need a theory of meaning!How do we know our theory of meaning is true?We need a metaphysics!But metaphysics is the theory of Being!The CategoriesBeingExperiencePowerUniverseBeingsThe voidMetaphysicsThe pragmaticReasonThe realizations |