Journey in being


	Details
	Intuition and Object
	In the sense used here, Intuition includes perception as well as iconic and symbolic thought; thought includes logic; all these fall under conception
	It has been established that the discovery of Objects is generally empirical and symbolic
	‘Science’ is not used in reference to the formal sciences but any process that in which a guess or hypothesis regarding new knowledge is made and predictions compared against reality which may permit improvement in the hypotheses. The idea applies to perception, the formal sciences, conceptual analysis and logic and the logics
	Faithfulness—its meaning and range
	What has been established sets boundaries to the meaning and extension of faithfulness from zero to one, i.e. from complete absence to perfect faithfulness; the actual situation was seen to necessarily lie in between the extremes
	In the history of thought the estimates regarding the actual status of human knowledge has ranged between the extremes
	Here, we have seen that there is no universal estimate of the faithfulness of knowledge. The actual status depends on what is being considered
	One and Many—The Universal metaphysics
	The outcome of the analysis is that when the Universe is considered under the aspect of its being ‘One,’ absolute faithfulness may emerge and the results include the Universal metaphysics and Logic. The perfect faithfulness is a consequence of the simplicity of the ‘One’ and the results are naturally trivial. However, even though trivial, the Universal metaphysics and the Logic are profound
	One and Many—Normal and Local studies
	The study of contingent or Normal worlds falls under the many; these, of course, have local unities. The local unities result in simplicity and improve confidence though generally not to the point of necessity
	The Universal metaphysics necessarily forms a framework for the local studies
	Action
	How contingent or Normal knowledge is regarded is not a the result of its faithfulness alone. The absence of universal and absolute faithfulness which has sometimes been regarded dismally may also be seen as an opportunity for discovery and realization. The end of Intuition is not invariably or perhaps even primarily in knowing but also lies in realizing, in remaining in interaction with acting or becoming
	Perfection
	While the Universe and its inhabitants generally remain in becoming, it occasionally enters into or passes nearby states of ‘perfection’

	Method: a more detailed development
	Subtitle: Ring of ideas
	Introduction
	The method explicitly mentioned and implicitly completed earlier begins with the analysis of experience that is not only applicable to conventional Objects but also to method itself as an Object and sees content and method as bound together
	Objection. See and reflect further on the next objection and its applicability to the apparent circularity above. Note. A different conception of method
	Here ‘method’ is not understood as algorithmic. As far as I can tell, openness to creativity and criticism is may be required at all levels—Object, meta-Object… (The meta-Object is an Object and therefore not absolutely distinct from the Object)
	‘The’ method now presented in a ring that is also a summary of the main ideas
	Experience
	Concepts—experience, capacity for experience (intuition,) pure experience, attitude, action, concept, faithfulness, reference, adaptedness, adaptability, Kantian Object, Intuitive Object, Contingent Object, Normal Object, demonstration
	Rational, i.e. empirical-logical character of experience. Normal Objects
	Introduces the empirical-logical or rational character of experience with emphasis on analysis of experience and concept. Meaning is immanent in context and is already empirical and logical
	Objection. Every rational scheme requires at least one unproved axiom and at least one unproved rule of deduction. Note that this objection has been considered in relation to the derivation of the Universal metaphysics. Here the concern is with rational schemes in general. Preliminary response. The doubt remains as still requiring clarification and address. However, the argument so far is sufficient to show that the objection is not obviously true and to cast doubt on it. The requirement of ‘one unproved axiom’ is obviously false; whether the present rational scheme requires an unproved axiom is a question that requires clarification. That experience refers, at least to itself, is an axiom of being that is given rather than unproved; and the requirement of reference, i.e. of ‘reality,’ is that of Logic against which the intuition of logic may be sharpened. Primary response. We always remain in Intuition and, until the establishment of the Universal metaphysics; we remain in the Contingent Intuitive or Normal where there is neither getting outside nor any other overcoming of ‘limits.’ Where there can be no overcoming there is no limit; it is only relative to a nonexistent ideal that a limit may be posited. The truth within Normal Intuition is capable of refinement but there is no getting out. This is true also of logic. It is in the nature of the Contingent Normal Intuition that its truth derives, finally, from adaptation and not from evaluation or external criticism—there is nothing that is finally external. It is essential therefore that there will be something ‘unproven’ by explicit devices. However, there are—as has been seen and as will be reinforced—directions in which, even though we remain in Intuition, there are Objects as Objects-in-themselves and these Objects are seen to be instrumental, as noted, in developing what amounts to an absolute foundation for the metaphysics…
	Project and comments. Develop and integrate the responses to this objection. Integrate the necessity of reference of the sentence calculus and of other systems with necessary reference. Express the necessity of reference in other equivalent ways. Emphasize that logic is brought down from the realm of the absolute, placed alongside science in having an empirical and progressive character
	Method. Method and content emerge together. The method is a rational or empirical-logical analysis of experience or meaning, i.e. of fact and consequence. ‘Consequence’ is not derived by ad hoc rules.
	Being
	Concepts—existence, name, being, Necessary Object, local description, global description, Law, Form
	Looking ahead, the classical distinction of being-in-itself or being versus being-in-relation or existence will be dissolved and therefore there is no distinction between existence and being
	Necessary Objects
	Necessary Objects, i.e. Objects that are inherently empirical and precise are introduced. Existence is a name for what is already empirical
	All Being
	Concepts—all being, abstract, abstraction, Universe, creator, Form, Law, Possibility, Actuality, Logic, Universal space, Universal time
	Abstraction as empirical
	The first Necessary Object that is also an entity is introduced (being and experience may be seen as objects but need not be seen as conventional entities.) Abstraction makes the Object, all being, empirical rather than remote
	‘Being’ per se is a quality rather than an entity. Later in consideration of abstract Objects, being will be seen also to be an entity with an extension of the meaning of ‘entity’ (the meaning of ‘abstract’ in abstract Object is not identical to the idea of abstraction used here)
	Domain
	Concepts—difference, dimension, extension, duration, space, time, domain, complement
	Dimension is mode of difference which includes but is not necessarily limited to extension and duration
	Experience and difference
	Experience of difference implies existence difference in Objects. See earlier sections and Objections and counterarguments for discussion of relations between concept and Object
	Void
	Concepts—fundamental principle, Logic, principle of reference, fiction, cosmological system, individual, identity, recurrence, Identity, essential unity of the Universe, Karma, the Normal, substance, determinism, absolute indeterminism, explanation, ultimate depth of the Universal metaphysics, ultimate implicit breadth, limits
	Rational or logical derivation
	Rational derivation from empirically established Objects
	Object
	Concepts—principle of reference, particular Object, abstract Object
	The Object emerges as the fundamental concept of the Universal metaphysics (in the broad sense that includes theory of Objects and Cosmology)
	Use of the principle of reference to bring uniformity to the—ad hoc—distinction of ‘particular’ versus ‘abstract’
	The essentials of the theory of Objects have already been established. Here the principle of reference is used to show there is no essential difference between the particular and the abstract, that the distinction is the practical one of method of study—sensory or symbolic but that while one or other may be emphasized all Objects partake of both… and, further, the aspect that is emphasized may change in the history of the Object
	Cosmology
	variety, process, space, time, being, mind, local cosmological system, physical cosmology
	The concept of cosmology:
	Concepts—variety, process, origins, ends, particulars, abstract objects
	Variety
	Concepts—fundamental principle, the normal, fiction, identity, karma, Jesus Christ, recurrence, annihilation
	Process
	Concepts—process, determinism, indeterminism, causation, dynamics, mechanism, adaptation, variation, selection, incremental, saltation
	Principles of thought and action
	Principles of thought are distinct from ‘method.’ Method is ‘necessary;’ principles of thought are creative. Of the two the principles are perhaps greater because they encapsulate creativity and criticism—and reflect the fact that construction and criticism are each, roughly, empty without the other
	Imagination is used to study cosmological variety. Ideas from the history of thought are instrumental. Here, an encyclopedic awareness of—immersion in—human thought is instrumental
	‘Scientific method’
	Principles of thought—reflexivity—that may be seen as a dual source of paradox and the essence of creativity and genesis. Method should perhaps be everywhere in quotations marks
	Action ‘begins’ in thought; therefore principles of thought are principles of action. However, there are principles of productive action that may be distinguished from those of productive thought—these are emphasized in Journey. In that thought is a mode of action principles of action apply to thought. The principles consider adequate balance and relations among the modes
	Human world / human endeavor
	Concepts—feeling, higher feeling, consciousness, language, freedom, charisma, society, culture, institution, science, technology, civilization, identity, faith, common endeavor, experimental endeavor, category, Object-category, Humor-Category, Science, Religion, literature, drama, music, art, architecture, thought, unnamed ideational form
	Intuitive theory as the intersection of the necessary and the Intuitive
	The intersection of the earlier necessary theories and particular conceptual encapsulation of empirical studies of the dimensions of the human world. Objectivity limited only by the precision of the Object on the human world side. Otherwise, study of the pertinent Objects may, in principle, be elevated to an ultimate level
	Method for Intuitive Objects has the same characteristics as that of method for the necessary Objects except that results are limited by the precision of the Intuitive Objects
	Not limited to ‘human’ but includes animal and local cosmological
	Includes the principles of thought employed for Cosmology above
	Rather than argue the possibilities of Science / Religion, reference may be made to an as yet unnamed Ideational Form
	Journey
	Concepts—journey, ambition, goal, desirability, feasibility, dynamics of being, transformation in idea, transformation in being-identity
	Dynamics of being
	The way from the human or here and now to the ultimate. Although the use of ‘method’ above is not intended to suggest algorithmic activity, here the move is further away from that concept of method
	The theoretical bases include the Dynamics of being that is an incremental approach toward achieving possibility (in light of the fundamental theorem.) Also included are bases from the history of thought, e.g., Samkhya from Indian Philosophy and Freudian and subsequent psychodynamic thought and offshoots including Jung and, perhaps, Maslow
	Use of catalytic states and enhancing or inducing factors
	Group and social endeavor
	Action, immersion and experiment