CONCEPTS FOR THE WAY OF BEING

A Vocabulary for the Real Metaphysics

Copyright © Anil Mitra, September 27, 2002 – March 30, 2023

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Preliminary

the world

experience

meaning

being

possibility

limitlessness

metaphysics

value

cosmology

application

method

path

the world

the concepts

Preliminary

The concepts are from the little manual; updates here may lag the updates in the manual.

Function

Provide a vocabulary for description of the world as in the real metaphysics,

Reveal the concepts as essential and constituting a system with system meaning and an at least implicit grammar,

Function as an outline for the way of being.

Preliminary to construction of a database of concepts.

Organization

The concepts, definitions (given new and alternately defined concepts), comments and references, are arranged in hierarchy.

Alternate names

Consider renaming some concepts for precision and effectiveness. A preliminary list of terms is—narrative, book, work, section, prologue, epilogue, metaphysics, abstract or ideal metaphysics, real metaphysics, void or nothingness, universe, world (enter below, define), religion, morals and morality, god and Brahman, experience, abstract, abstraction, general logic.

the world

i.e., the world as we find it

experience of

treated below (note non-uniqueness of the first concept)

as if

the world

prologue

retreat from the world, temporary

phase of reflection

individual

human situation

birth

death

birth and death are among some concepts that occur more than once

history

foresight

destiny

acceptance

seeking

search

human endeavor

knowledge

appearance

illusion

no foundation

foundation

relative

regress

absolute

no apriorism

process

final

the real

worldview

projections

agency

intention

action

retreat

place of being

aim of being

the immediate

limits

necessity

contingency

real

absolute

the ultimate

realization

experience

immediacy

givenness

there is experience

abstraction

retaining in ‘experience of’ only whatever is capable of perfect correspondence depiction or representation

it is not necessary but often desirable that what is retained is all of what is perfect

naming

reflexivity

self-reflexivity

there is experience of experience

world

entered separately, above (note non-uniqueness of the first concept)

as if

significance

roughly, in the sense of ‘the meaning of life’

experience as place of

identity

experience as place of

form

of experience, i.e., structure of experience

psychology

greater detail under psychology and dimensions of experience and the world

concept

experience of (concept)

subect

first order

of the world

second order

of a concept

inner

of self, body, or concepts of concepts

outer

of the world

icon

a concept that is intrinsically depictive

sign

a concept or token thereof that has no intrinsic depictive quality

symbol

associated icon and sign

simple

word

vocabulary

compound

syntax

relata

the experience

intention

object

the experienced (object)

real

as if

fictional

illusory

dimensions of experience

this outline from dimensions of experience and the world and the dimensions should be revised together

fundamental parameters that (may be used to) specify the variety of experience including relation and process; may be enhanced by detail; the unit experiences below are an enhancement of Leibnizian monads and roughly the actual occasions of Alfred North Whitehead’s metaphysics of organism

ideal

field of experiential being

in form and formation—relation and change—as the world on the way to the limitless ultimate

elements

from the fundamental principle, there are not true elements—the void or any being may function as an element

unit experiences may be identified as pragmatic elements for dimensions of experience

pragmatic axes

attitude-pure experience-action axis

one dimension, pure experience itself, with three directionalities—active and passive—world to being or attitude, null or pure experience, and being to world or action (note being includes self); this is contra some accounts that see the axes as independent; here, attitude and action are essentially experiential

attitude

pure

action

inner – outer axis

though there is a distinction, it is relative and the demarcation is blurred

self (with body)

world

free – bound continuum

bound

perception

autonomous motor control

some feeling

relatively bound to world as object

perception of spatiotemporal form with change and formation, the result of perceptual intuition in the sense of Immanuel Kant

free

conception (higher)

conscious motor control

some feeling and emotion

relatively free (including concept formation)

body – inner – feeling

with degrees of freedom

world – outer – iconic and symbolic concepts

and conceptual intuition or capacity for concept formation (emotion is a join of conception and free and primitive feeling)

spatiotemporal

concepts of spacetime, past – present – future, will and sense of purpose

related concepts of science, philosophy, and the transcendent

aesthetic

syntheses of forms and properties that speak to the being

synthesis

expansive operation of mind—perception, thought, concept formation, feeling and emotion come together in realism regarding the world

intensity continuum

it is functional for some experience to be intense in the sense of imperative to action (of which non-action is a case), and for other experience to be of low intensity; for this is the root of reflection and foresight.

the reflective and the imperative interact

imperative

fear

pain

joy

reflective, foresight

perception

thought

form and property

form

that which requires extension

property

intensive attribute, primary or secondary

symbol and feeling

feeling and symbol may occur together; yet symbol and feeling may be dissociated—adaptive in some contexts, dissociative in others

symbol

associated with form

feeling

associated with quality

form and formation

eternal forms

abstractions; have being but omit dynamics; their pragmatic approximations have dynamics

pragmatic forms

are associated with formation and dynamics; in which space and time or spacetime are immanent

meaning

concept meaning

a concept meaning is a concept and its possible and intended objects

linguistic meaning

a linguistic meaning is a symbol and its possible and intended objects

knowledge

meaning realized—a meaning and its actual objects

intention

knowledge or meaning in which the object is the concept, object, and conception of the object

narrative

Metanarrative

aim

audience

narrative aim

design

flow

readability

impact

planning

reading

reflection

study

experience

writing

publication

structure

prologue

non-uniqueness of optimal point of entry even from pedagogical, metaphysical, and epistemic perspectives taken separately

themes

reference

internal and external cross-linking

index

glossary

vocabulary

grammar

epilogue

universal narrative

summation

revision

historical thread

being

a being (plural: beings); An existent (plural: existents)

real object of a concept-object pair

being, existence

property in virtue of which beings are beings, existents are existents (here, contra-Heidegger, richness of beings and the world is framed by being rather than of being as being, approach to questions of richness and existenz)

existence

being

significance of being

foundation

contrasubstance

depth

superficiality of, from the concept of being, but not merely trivial

breadth

variety, frame for richness, place of discovery, ever open for limited beings

beings

system of beings - the aim is to show and specify the inclusivity of being

Experience, existence, being itself

with sufficient abstraction, being is a being.

Concepts

concepts are causative in two ways (i) the conception precipitates action – this is not understood to be classical physical causation (even if there is an underlying physical mechanism of the precipitation) (ii) the concept is itself physically immanent in the brain; however, the configuration of the brain is not the concept

As if objects and fictional objects are not beings

since the objects are not beings they are not physically causative, but the concept may precipitate action

Logical objects

anything that is a true (i.e., not as if) reference of a concept of a possible being—e.g., entities, states, processes, relationships, concrete and abstract objects, experiences and concepts, universals (e.g., redness), tropes (e.g., the redness of a red ball).

Mereological objects

(mereology)

Whole, part, null part.

Physical mereology

the universe, cosmoses (super cosmoses, cosmological structures), worlds, elements, the void, inter mereological interactions, e.g., transients from the void

being as being

Chain of being

chain of being

suggests a Christian hierarchy that is not useful here

a recognized medieval Christian and modern concept, placed here as suggestive rather than definitive

reality hierarchy

nonexistent, fictitious, as if, possible, probable, actual, contingent, conditionally necessary, and absolutely necessary

hierarchy of form

god and other ultimates

god and other necessary beings

from elementary beings (particles or fields as far as real) to elementary living beings through animals and human beings, to higher beings (higher than we see on Earth), to local ‘gods’, and on to peak being (the hierarchy of form and of experience overlap

experiential hierarchy

sentience through agency—feeling, sensation, inner (proprioception), outer (perception), recall, conception (‘higher’), emotion (pleasure, pain, suffering, enjoyment of experience, identity—self and shared, foresight, value, imperative, will, agency), and limitless or peak being, god.

possibility

possibility

possibility theory

impossibility

necessity

possible object

necessary object

nonexistent object

problem of negative existentials (resolved by the theory of meaning used in the way of being)

logical possibility

conceptual possibility

logical possibility

logical necessity

deductive, absolute

logic

propositional

first order

higher order

logics—

propositional logic

first order logic

higher order logic

extended

modal logic

modal logic

possible worlds

deviant

many value

paraconsistent

paraconsistent logic

dialetheia

symbol in the form of a contradiction, which has or may have a real object

dialetheia

generalization of dialetheia

allowable symbol

diction

disallowable symbol

contrareal

set theory

set theory

metaphysics

metaphysics

possible worlds

inductive

scientific method

form

formation

science

law

greatest possibility

most inclusive

paradox

apparent paradoxes are false or merely apparent

limitlessness

limitlessness is not paradoxical

real possibility

physical

human

economic

…and more

real impossibility

real necessity

limitlessness

fundamental principle

abstract metaphysics, the

the ultimate

range of being

identity

situation

duration-extension-being

(space-time-matter)

argument for no further parameters of situation

variety

individual

limits

real but not absolute

birth

gateway to realization

death

gateway to the ultimate

realization

ways

pathway

intelligence

enjoyment

imperative

yoga

reason

peak being

dissolution

metaphysics

metaphysics

knowledge of the real

real metaphysics, the

dynamic join of abstract metaphysics and pragmatic knowledge

framework for received metaphysics (knowledge) and its problems

tradition

pragmatic knowledge

an ultimate value

realization of the ultimate in and from the immediate

corresponding perfection of the real metaphysics

real metaphysics as knowledge

method

concept formation, free

imagination

recombination

fact

inference

deduction

certain, necessary

induction

likely

best fit

projection

heuristic

hypothesis

… and more

demonstration

general logic

argument

argument

validity

soundness

validity

soundness

reason

yoga

yoga

rationality

value (treated separately, below)

cosmology (treated separately, below)

value

value

ethics

aesthetics

ethics, aesthetics

cosmology

general cosmology

logic

concept formation

possible worlds

perspectives

material (object)

ideal (subject)

being (neutral)

preferred, inclusive, no prejudgment

field of experiential being

relation

change

form and formation, cosmology of

form

relative stability due to near symmetry

perfect symmetry is frozen

dynamic form

static form

study of symmetry

origins

transients from the void or other formed systems

selection for relative stability and near symmetry

evolution

variation and selection

variation

initial neutrality to stable form

selection

for relative stability of near symmetry

forms, the

interaction with change

determinism with residual indeterminism

mechanism

causation

determinism as approximation

physical cosmology

physical cosmology

our cosmos

general

speculative

evolutionary biology

variation and selection

paradigms

cosmology suggests paradigms which, with others, are that are incorporated to dimensions of being

dimensions of being

intrinsic and instrumental modes or ways of description

pure

of being, relatively fixed

experiential being in form and formation of worlds on the way to the limitless ultimate

pragmatic

relatively changeable due evolution or change in knowledge and culture; chosen from a western material perspective as balance to the perspective on the pure dimension, but easily altered to perspectives from being and experience

nature

ground

physical

living

experiential

paradigms

these paradigms are suggested by natural science and philosophy

indeterminism, variation and selection

mechanism, determinism with and without residual indeterminism, causation

society

form resulting from interactive cooperation, which may be intelligent

born of nature, which is found more flexible than once thought to be, which leads to conceptions of transcendence, limitlessness, and the universal

culture

power

economic-political

secularism

transsecularism

cultivating awareness and realization in experiential being

paradigms from the social and ethical realm; the following are tentative themes (and also incorporated under themes in the manual)

sustainability vs growth

political-economics and ethics in wealth distribution

theoretical or conceptual ethics, morals, and their relation to choice, decisions and action, for individuals through the universe

charisma and institution in power

populism vs liberal democracy in stable and effective governance

power and history

secularism and transsecularism in history and ultimate being.

universal-ultimate

immersive

cultivating awareness and realization in experiential being

instrumental

science and technology in the world civilizing the universe

paradigms of form and formation

ultimate, proximate, certain, probable, spontaneous, absolute, variation and selection, emergence (of kind, of complexity), mechanism, robustness, apparent design, necessary design

paradigms of thought

general logic, explanation and prediction, creativity, criticism

universal-ultimate

immersive

cultivating awareness and realization in experiential being

instrumental

science and technology in the world civilizing the universe

paradigms of form and formation

ultimate, proximate, certain, probable, spontaneous, absolute, variation and selection, emergence (of kind, of complexity), mechanism, robustness, apparent design, necessary design

paradigms of thought

general logic, explanation and prediction, creativity, criticism

application

source—system of knowledge

the real

two levels of truth

for limited being)

this world

the ultimate

system of knowledge

knowledge and action

this outline from system of human knowledge and the system should be revised together

ground

humanities

humanism

philosophy

knowledge

reason

tradition

religion

the universe

…and the given world

science

sciences

general

abstract

symbolic systems

metaphysics

method

concrete

physical

life

psychological

social

applied

abstract

concrete

methods

history

artifact

…and the created world

art

technology

established

history

use

elements

fields

recent

artificial intelligence

technology of language, mind, and being

developing

technology for advanced civilization and being

being and the universe

transformation of being

being the universe

method

(method and knowledge)

method is content

content

foundation

begin where we are

problems of epistemology (see problems of knowledge below)

knowledge

the concept, theories of

knowledge was seen as meaning realized, but here the concept concerns what it the state of knowing is

correspondence

knowledge corresponds to objects

coherence

knowledge as coherence

pragmatism

knowledge as behavioral

knowledge as instrumental

problems of (knowledge)

illusion

truth

justification

relating to kinds of knowledge

fact

theory

about method

general logic

unification of method, process, and content under

unification of certainty and necessity with likelihood

unification of fact and inference under

search

in dual space of concepts and objects

hypothesis construction

that it applies to all phases of discovery

evaluation

reflexivity

meta-analysis

vertical

systemic analysis

horizontal, parallel

path

ways

primal

religion

ultimate search, rational-emotive search under all degrees of certainty and uncertainty, all aspects of being employed in realization of ultimate being

religions

note the crucial distinction between religion and the religions

abrahamic

buddhism

hinduism

brahman

secularism

secular humanism

spirituality

modern transsecularism

morality

good

evil

truth

utilitarianism

tolerance

practice

yoga

meditation

intrinsic

instrumental

retreat

action

prayer

pathways

in received ways

this list is incomplete—it is a beginning

eightfold way

in Buddhism and Yoga

mysticism

Christian

for the way of being

principles

i.e., of ways

design

path programs

shared path

templates

everyday-immediate

dedication

the immediate and the ultimate as one.

affirmation

tat tvam asi

universal-ultimate

retreat

renewal

resources

the world

the world, afresh

cycle of life

birth

gateway to realization

death

gateway to the ultimate

epilogue

looking outward

into the world

being-in-the-world

narration

universal narrative

the future

eternal return