JOURNEY IN BEING
CONCEPTS
Outline of main ideas: aims, concepts, assertions and explanations or proofs
OUTLINE
Document design… First things… Being… Metaphysics… Objects… Meaning… Logic… Mind… Cosmology… Human world… Faith… Ambition… Journey… Story… Ideas… Transformation… The future… Index of ideas
Authoring: design, text design and authoring, web design, influence, publishing, talking
Narrative forms: essay, paper, document, manuscript, text, thesis, dissertation, tract, exposition, critique, study, article, piece, narrative, travelogue, chronicle, biography, memoirs, monograph, and treatise
Fiction: fiction, story, novel, myth, legend, saga, tale, parable, allegory, fable…
Other literary forms: poem, verse, drama, mixed media
Terms in brackets are alternates to the terms generally preferred in this narrative
journey; (becoming); ambition; diffuse vs. single minded; action; actuality; ambition; being; being, all; depth; experience; feasibility; feeling; ideas (recognition, virtual transformation); individual; influence; inspiration; metaphysics; morals; perception; possibility; present; transformation; transformation (experiment, actual transformation); ultimate; universe
adventure; void; (nothingness); universe; (world); Logic; (Logos); necessity; actuality; part; (some, domain); extension; duration; description; local; global; indeterminism; form; contingent mechanism; necessary mechanism; meaning; concept; (includes percept); metaphysics; substance; objects; the real; truth; knowledge; action; logic; life; mind; relation; consciousness; cosmology; normal cosmology; physical cosmology; human being; organism; psyche; the unconscious; freedom; word; symbol; conceptualization; (creation); will; manipulation; freedom of action; society; culture; institution; civilization; history; ideals; the good; the highest ideal; destiny; faith
Being – word and concept; verb to be and its forms; verb, noun and qualifier forms; existence; action, choice; entity
Empirical content, science, supervenience
Existence, the verb to be and its forms
Mystery, algebra, naming the unknown
An empty concept e.g. being has no sense but is not without use or reference; power of a concept
Dedicated concept e.g. mind, matter
Significance
Object – that which has being; concept – the object as known
Presence to, illusion, perception, appearance
Difference, form, universe, void, form, pattern, law, and Form, Pattern, and Law, immanence
Entities, permanent entities
Substance, the real, identity, determinism, cause, mind, feeling, matter, morals, the good, feasibility, choice, proposition, fact, materialism
Meaning, atomism, holism, use, concept, sense, trivial sense, connotation, intension, object, reference, denotation, extension, idea, concept, system of concepts, shade of meaning, context, shifting and growing or extended contexts, root extension, acquisition, immersion, instruction and definition
Modes of description, global, (trajectory), and local (or coordinate) description, time, space, space-time, descriptor or coordinate, continuum, patch
Being; being, theory of; continuities among metaphysics, logic, cosmology; descriptions, system of consistent; dynamic form; existence; fundamental principle of the Theory of being; impossibility; Indeterminism and freedom of the will ; journey; logic (or logos and or form;) and the normal (as describing the character and necessity of e.g. formed worlds e.g. this cosmological system against the universal background of absolute indeterminism;) empirical character of metaphysics; materialism; metaphysics, discipline whose object is the outer limit(s) of being, metaphysics of absence, metaphysics of immanence; pattern; philosophy, analytic, discipline whose limits are the outer limits of being, recent; power; see Objects,) actuality of metaphysics; sentience; substance, elimination of; the void (absence of being); universe (all being)
Abstract; anthropomorphism, anthrocentrism, cosmomorphism, and cosmocentrism ; Aristotle; Atman, Brahman; Brahman, Atman; choice; context; contingent; cosmology, Theory of Variety; doubt; faith; feeling; fiction; formlessness; Heidegger, Martin; human being; idealism; language; lateral analysis of the meanings of concepts; legend; life; mathematics; metaphysics and philosophy; physics and metaphysics; foundation, foundationalism; non relativist systems of philosophy (metaphysics) without substance; logic, ethics, cosmology, ontology…; western, modern, Indian, Greek, continental, and analytic philosophy; ultimate vs. conservative; definition of ultimate in terms of depth and breadth; mind-matter problem; modal concepts – possibility, the actual, actuality, necessity; identity of possibility and actuality a feature of the universe as all being; extensive and intensive versions of necessity; logic as the theory of possibility; depth and breadth (of a metaphysics); modality; morals; necessary; ontological commitment; paradox; percept; perspective; probability; proof; quantum theories; real, the; religion; science; showing; stability; substance; absolute indeterminism; absolute indeterminism requires form; mechanism and explanation, variation and selection, normal mechanism, quasi-causation, quasi or local determinism, cause and Cause; symmetry; system of consistent description; theories of physics; theory of mechanisms of essential change; thought, principles of; time and space; truth; understanding; voidism
Form, logos and object, two kinds or meanings of form, dynamic versus static form; near symmetry and relative stability, mechanism and necessity, population of the universe, actual and perceptual selection, quasi causation and determinism; concept and object, knowledge and action; meaning of the abandoned concept-object; real, the; intuition; language and the empirical, number: empirical or not; absolute object, actual object, concrete object, abstract object, particular object… universals, morals and other abstract objects, ethics and meta-ethics; existence, existence-as; faithfulness; Frege, Gottlob; Good, the; identity (object, personal); identity (sameness); immanence; individual; Kant, Immanuel; logic; Meinong, Alexius; metaphysics; real, the; religion; Russell, Bertrand Arthur William; substance; system of consistent description; time and space; truth; Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Aristotle; Atman; atomism; Brahman; cause; context; contingent; doubt; emotion; faith; formlessness; Hilbert, David; impossibility; inspiration; journey; life; materialism; mathematics; mind; modality; objectivity; pattern; phenomenalism; Plato; power; precision; science; sentience; society; symbol; theory of variety; transcendental argument
Meaning i.e. the linguistic sense of word and sentence meaning, use, lexical meaning, concept, object, definition, atomism, holism
Analysis and meta-analysis ; concept and object; sense and reference; concept side: sense, connotation, intension; object side: reference, denotation, extension; dynamics of meaning i.e. a field of concepts in dynamic adjustment to discovery, changing context; etymology – meaning of; significance of e.g. for insight; does the significance warrant inclusion; field of concepts i.e. of sense and reference i.e. awaits a completed metaphysics and is, until then, in evolution; meaning and knowing; atomism and holism; and use (use ‘theory’ has the dual connotation of meaning being contextual and holist); sense, reference (connotation, denotation; intension, extension)
Abstract; adaptation; Aristotle; cognition; concept-object; consciousness; consistency; contingent; depth; determinism; electron, question of the indivisibility of; faithfulness; fiction; Frege, Gottlob; good, the; intuition in the sense of Kant; Kant, Immanuel; language; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm; life; logic; mathematics; Meinong, Alexius; mind; modality; percept; Platonic world, there is no; Platonism; Quine, Willard Van Orman; real, the; Russell, Bertrand Arthur William; science; stability; story; substance; time and space; understanding; Wallace, Alfred Russell; Whitehead, Alfred North; Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Absolute possibility; actuality and possibility, identity of; are there objects for which there are no descriptions; arithmetic has no description, and Gödel; arithmetic, complete, if it is conceptualized – what is the object, Gödel proofs avoid this but the question of the object remains and is significant to the incompleteness of arithmetic for the Gödel sentences, even though they have arithmetic representation, are hardly arithmetical objects…; consistency; contexts of contingency; contexts of pure necessity; deduction; deduction; extensional and intensional necessity, identity of; induction; induction of scientific theory vs. deduction within theory; induction, see logic of science; infinite object; intensional necessity, see extensional necessity; logic and Logic; Logic as description of the actual is effectively immanent but may be equivalent to a subset of the Logos; Logic as grammar; Logic as may be regarded as the theory of depicting, conceiving or describing the possible and the actual; logic as meta-analysis; Logic as the actual is immanent; Logic is the one law of the universe; logic of science, the: induction; logical atomism; Logical objects; Logicist thesis; Logos; mathematics and science as part of Logic; merely contingent contexts; normal contexts; one logic vs. many logics; paradox; paradox is an artifact of description, whether all; paradox, concept and object; paradox, linguistic; paradox, nature of ; paradox, set-theoretic ; paradox, source of ; probable inference, significance in normal domains but not in merely contingent contexts; proper reference necessary to validity in Logic and Grammar; pure necessity and deduction; reference, importance of in Logic; Relative or contextual possibility; science and law; science as hypothetical if universal but factual over limited domains; science as tentative (hypothetical) knowledge over the universe or as definite knowledge over limited and incompletely defined domains
Aesthetics; all being; Aristotle; Bacon, Francis; being, theory of; Brouwer, L. E. J.; concept; consistency; constitution; context; contingent; deduction; definition; depth; Descartes, René; descriptions, system of consistent; designated function; determinism; domain of validity of a (scientific) theory demarked e.g. by region of space and time, by size of entity and energy of interaction; electron, question of the indivisibility of; evolution, theory of; excluded middle, principle of; existence; fact; fiction, literature, myth, story; form; formalism, see mathematics; formlessness; function, the concept of; fundamental principle of the Theory of being, second proof; Gödel, Kurt; Hilbert, David; Hume, David; hypothesis; hypothetical; identity; indeterminism; individual; induction; intuitionism, see mathematics; Kuhn, Thomas; language; law, logic and; limit; logic, theory of possibility, universal law; logicism, see mathematics; logics; logos; mathematics, foundations, formalism, intuitionism, logicism, Platonism; metaphysics, of absence, of immanence, voidism; modality, actuality, , necessity, possibility; necessity; Newton, Isaac; non contradiction, principle of; object; Ockham, William of; paradox; pattern; Plato; Platonism, also see mathematics, platonic view of being, there is no Platonic world; Popper, Karl; power; principle of non contradiction; principle of the excluded middle; proof, in mathematics, deduction, showing; real, the; reference and paradox; reference to the elementary particles of physics; Reichenbach, Hans; Russell, Bertrand Arthur William; science; substance, spirit, spiritual; tautology; theories of physics, electromagnetism, newtonian mechanics, quantum theories; theory; Theory of being; theory of evolution, see evolution; time and space, space, time; transformation; truth; understanding; universal law; void, voidism; Whitehead, Alfred North; Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Afference; attention; attitude; awareness; bound elements of mind. See Mind; causal efficacy; cognition; commitments; conation; consciousness; dimensions of mind. See Mind; drive; efference; emotion; experience, two meanings of; feeling (primitive); free elements of mind. See Mind; free symbol; freedom, human (spark, primitive root of freedom in the organism… free images… free symbol… free concept… originality or creativity – in ideas and artifacts and institutions… freedom of the will; function; human freedoms. See Free, Freedom; human mind, necessary picture of the; humor; identity; inner sense; intentionality; intuition; intuition, Kantian; Kantian intuition. See Intuition, Kantian; learning; memory; mind; mind and matter, indefiniteness of the common concepts of; mind as manifest; mind, dimensions of; mind, phenomenal concept of; mind, primal; mind, problem of mental causation; mind, problem of mind and matter; mind, psychological concept of; motivation; motor control; necessary picture of the human mind. See Human mind, necessary picture of; organism; perception, primitive; personality; physical senses; physiological processing; presence to; primitive feeling. See feeling; primitive perception. See perception; psyche; psychology; sentience; spark. See Free, Freedom; symbol; thought; time; unconscious, the
Consciousness, apparent on-off character of; consciousness, awareness of awareness and; consciousness, language and; what it is like
Aboutness; action; active-creative; actual; behaviorism; cause; concept; concept, consistent extension of; context; continuum; creativity; determinism; epiphenomenalism; growth; immaterial; indeterminism; instrumental; integration; James-Lange theory of emotion; materialism; matter; meaning-reference; meaning-sense; mind; moral sense; niche exploration and creation; object; pan-psychism; panpsychism (pan-psychism); passive-determined; problems of experience; pure substance. See substance; rationalism; recollection; reference. See Meaning-reference; root; science; sense; sense. See Meaning-sense; sight; society; sound; stimulus-response; subjective; substance (pure); survival; theory; transformation; understanding
Anthropic principle; causation and determinism; general, local; human being; mechanism and explanation; metaphysics implies that it is writ with infinite repetition in the universe; transient, normal (physical); variety / origins
Actuality; adaptation; all being; annihilation; atomism; cause; consciousness; cosmological variety; cosmology, theory of variety; creation; Democritus; descriptions, system of consistent; divides in the evolution of the cosmos; Einstein, Albert; existence; fantasy; fiction; God; history; identity; incremental change, probability of; indeterminism, absolute; indeterminism, necessity of; individual; karma; legend; limit; literal; literature; logic; matter; metphysics, theory of depth; mind; mind, manifest; mind, primal; modality; myth; normal; novelty; origin of complexity; originality - creative power in being and mind; probability; proof; real, the; recurrence; religion; science; scripture, reference to traditional; significance in being or ‘meaning of life’; soul; space, see time and space; spirit; stability; substance; symmetry; theories of physics, quantum theories, relativistic theory of gravitation; theory of depth, see metaphysics; theory of mechanisms of essential change, normal mechanism; time and space, dominant time, multiple times e.g. distinct particles or domains have different intrinsic times whose interactions are weak, space, time; truth; universe; variety, cosmological. See cosmological variety; variety, theory of. See cosmology; void
Actuality; connotation; cosmology; denotation; global or supra-coordinate description; local; modality; necessity; normal; possibility; precision; probability; proof; quantum theories; reference; space; stability; tautology; time; time and space
Absolute knowledge; acquaintance; action; action; ad hoc and traditional; adaptation; adapted nature; afferent-efferent; animal world; applied ethics; applied interest; archive; art; atomic facts; bound elements; bound elements of cognition; bound symbol-free symbol; bridge to the ultimate; capacity of curiosity; characteristically empirical; Civilization; co-development of organism and institution; cohesion; complete and dynamic picture; concept of superiority to other animals has no place in the narrative; conceptual environments; constraints; context; contingent; contingent limits on the understanding of the human world; convention; creation; creation; culture; culture; culture is the common expression of psyche; definition; discovery; drama; drive; dual difficulty of insight and action; dynamics; economics; economics; education; element of indeterminism; element-variety; emotion; empirical necessities; empirically known universe; entertainment; enumeration of the institutions; essential characteristic; essential freedom; ethics; ethics; evolution; exclusion; faithfulness; feasibility; form; foundation; freedom of concept formation; freedom of the will; freedom of thought; geographical circumstance; good society; group; group; group action and decision making; groups; groups; habit of substance thinking; higher function; highest ideal; historical circumstance; history; hubris; hubris of knowledge; human form; human freedom; human freedoms; human world; idea; indeterminism; individual; individual; inner-outer; insight; institutions; institutions; institutions of action; institutions of culture; institutions of organization; institutions of social organization; instrument for the study of being; instrumentally known; integration and integrability of inner-outer feeling i.e. of emotion and cognition; interaction; intrinsic interest; journey; journey, initial path of; know yourself; knowledge as power; knowledge of empirical necessity; knowledge of knowledge which includes knowledge of at least a primitive idea of the ultimate; language; language, drama, art…; law; law and morals; lens to ultimate; limits; limits of the normal; local cosmological system; loss of hubris; Maslow; materialism; memory trace-symbol; modularity-integration; morals; mystery; normal; organism; organism, group and necessity; organism-psyche; organization or structure; origination; path; path to the ultimate; pattern; perception; physical environments; play; politics; pride; primitive symbol-reflexive symbolic capacity and language; process and dynamics; psyche; psychiatry; psychology, Also see Mind; pure ethics; pure interest; qualitative dynamics; quality of being; quality of experience; reflex; reflexivity; religion; religion; root element; Schopenhauer, Arthur; science; science, technology, economics…; Self-knowledge is quality of being; sentience. See Mind; share resources among the two implied; sharing; significance in being or ‘meaning of life’; social law; social organization; society; sociology; soul. See Identity; spectrum of ability; spectrum of ability; spirit, spiritual. See Substance; substance theory; systematic; systematic approach; technology; theory; thought; thought about thought which entails reason and logic; transformation; transmission; truth; ultimate concerns; unconscious motives; utilitarian interest; value; war and peace; wonder; wounded psyche
Aesthetics; Atman, human being as; attitude; binding problem, the; bound icon and symbol; bound symbol; categories of intuition; choice; cognition; deriving a fundamental psychology; drive; emotion; emotion, higher; feeling as elements of function; free concept, the; free feeling, memory and; free icon and symbol; freedom of the will; freedom of will; Freudian determinism, human being and; function; fundamental character of feeling; greater than mere being; growth; growth, extrapolation to the ultimate; higher emotion; history, sense of; human being ; human being, nature of; human freedoms; icon; integration; intuition; knowledge; knowledge of self; language; less than ultimate; life; manifest mind and life; mental function; micro and macroscopic elements of life; more than mere being; nature of human being, the; neoteny; object constancy; objectivity; originality or creativity; personality; project and commitment over a life; project and commitment over time; psyche; psychology; sense of history; spark, the; symbol; unconscious, the; unity of consciousness; willpower
Action; afferent-efferent; becoming®memory; bound integral emotion-perception; bound®free; direct-reflex; evolution-structure; feeling (inner-outer); free integral emotion-cognition; icon-symbol; identity-identification; inner-outer; interaction-intentionality; manipulation-flow; modularity-integration; passive®active; sensory modalities-intuition; specialization-layering; state-process; symbolic niche formation and formability ; symbol-language
Conscious-unconscious; physical modalities-senses
Achievement; achievement, exceptional; adaptation; ambition; appreciates and expresses his being; Atman; awareness; bound; Brahman; causation; cause; cognitive science; commitments; concepts; consistency; constitution; creativity. See originality; depth; Descartes, René; determinism ; disorder; doubt; drama; dreams; dynamics; dysfunction; equilibrium of the organism cannot be stasis; evolution, theory of; existence; experience; experiment; fact; feeling; free; function; function, the concept of; growth; Heidegger, Martin; human identity and Atman; implicit; individual; inspiration; intentionality; intuition in the sense of Kant; intuition, the; Jung, Carl Gustav; language; language and freedom; logic; logics; love; mathematics; mind, phenomenal concept of; non-particular; novelty; organic function; originality; percept; personality ; perspective; picture; power; psychic function; psychoanalysis; science; signs that designate concepts; symbols; territory of the unconscious, the; unconscious, the; understanding; universe; use; value; variety; voice, personal and impersonal
Charisma; charisma and action; constraint; context; dynamics; economics; education; ethics; evil; feasibility; fiction; freedom and constraint; influence; institution of culture, the; institutional forms; institutions and culture; knowledge; law (social); law (legal); literature; morals; myth; patriarchalism; political realism; politics; power; religion; role of faith; Sen, Amartya; social groups; social world; society; Tylor, Edward Burnett; value; Weber, Max; West
Adequate vs. advanced technology; communication; competing moral imperatives; contrived examples; cooperating moral imperatives; culture; dependence on technology; grand solution; history; holism; inequality; inequity; interacting moral imperatives; interactive panorama of ethical problems; interactivity of the issues; issues of inertia; moral concerns; nihilism; political realism; principles of solution; problem of terrorism; quality of life; respect; separation of ethics, politics and economics?; separation of pure and applied ethics?; solution patchworks; solutions; universal and modern (moral) concerns
Animal being; antagonism; art; civilization; cultural homogeneity; culture; defense; greatness; horror; mundane world; myth; novel forms connected to the stream of being; politics; religion; sense of realism; social uniformity; special character of Human being; technology; West; world as alien and hostile
All being; beauty; death and decay of old moral systems; dialectical materialism; equality; good, the; good, the; good, the; highest ideal, the; highest ideal, the; highest value as including search for the highest value; individual, the; integration of psyche and social systems; integration of the psyche; involves transformation in identity; justice; liberty; lost values; nature; Plato’s Good; real as the good, the; real, the; search in the real; self-determination; sharing; truth
Dynamics vs. assigned function. Holist vs. atomic meaning. Literal vs. figurative meaning. Contextual (universal, local) vs. independent ‘function.’ Written or scriptural vs. oral and mnemonic. Live vs. degenerate (empty, irrelevant, abuse…)
I.e. predominant dependence on cultivation of resources – and consequent marshaling of knowledge (science over context, de-contextualization of faith and myth and often-time turn to literal fundamentalism and abuse) and human resources to that end… Versus hunter-gatherer i.e. predominant dependence on use and preservation (though depletion due to overuse or changing natural environment may occur) of local resources and the preservation of human (relatively constant population) and knowledge (oral, mythic) to that end
The myth of creation of the hunter-gatherer may serve a dual function of cosmology (placing the immediate context in the universal) and, especially together with a local cosmography, a practical living including survival function that, as long as the style of life is maintained, may not be replaced by science. Modern science itself is a mythic but not rational or even scientific cosmology if projected to the entire universe; within this social context (modernized pastoral i.e. agricultural)
Ideal religion. Metaphysics as framework; literal content. Non-literal meaning content – mythic or universal, contextual and moral-social; poetry, literature and religion. Non-meaning functions – moral-social and contextual bonding, universal bonding (yoga)
Psychology of fundamentalism and reactivism
Incremental limits, multilateral implementation
See Journey, below for concepts
Journey, adventure, the present, being, process, enjoyment, wonder, perception, ambition, diffuse and ultimate ambition, ends, the ultimate, individual, group, society, all being, realization
Actual, analysis, conscious, consciousness, elimination of substance and determinism, faith, feasibility, feeling, fiction, growth, hope, human being, ideas, imagination, intuition, judgment, life, Martin Heidegger, means, normal, path, principles of thought and transformation, reason, religion, serendipity, story, synthesis, the greatest thing, the unconscious, theory of being, tradition, transformation, universal, value, virtual, vision, way, worth
Autobiographical; axiomatic form; biographical; conceptual holism; critical appreciation; dialog; drama; film; modular arrangement; narrative form; narrative, impersonal; narrative, personal; non-linear form; novel; piece-meal analysis; poem; presentation; presentational form; recognition; Spinoza’s ethics; style matched to phase; Suzanne Langer
Achievement, exceptional; all being; ambition; atomism; being, theory of; charisma; civilization; consciousness; context; cosmology; deduction; definition; depth; determinism, indeterminism, necessity of; education; epistemology; experiment; fact; faith, religion; fiction, literature, myth, story; form; foundation; growth; highest ideal, the; history; human being; identity; indeterminism. see determinism; individual; induction; inspiration; journey; knowledge, epistemology; language; life; logic; mathematics; metaphysics, materialism; mind; modality, possibility; morals, ethics, ethics and objectivity; myth; novelty. see originality; object; originality - creative power in being and mind, novelty; paradigm; personality; philosophy, modern; politics; proof; psychology; real, the; science; sharing; society; substance; symmetry; theories of physics; theories of physics, quantum theories; thought, principles of; time and space, space; transformation; understanding; universe; universe; value; voice, personal and impersonal
Concept meaning; dynamics of being; feeling, intuition and cognition; integration the psyche; reflexivity; thought and action
Charisma and patriarchalism; criticism and construction; incrementalism, systematic or global thinking, risk, faith; logic and reason; principles and thought not (altogether) separable
History of philosophy; the concept of philosophy is an issue in philosophy; historical trends and forces in the concept of philosophy; critical versus constructive and nihilist versus systematic trends; need for and possibility of integration and system – reflective versus reactive approaches to failures of the past… that failure of cases of idealism / materialism / system (relative to piece-meal or piece-wise analysis do not imply impossibility of all idealism / materialism / system and that the introduction of the distinctions do not imply an absolute character of the distinctions; practice (use) and definition of a discipline; definition, analysis, reflective analysis, specialist vocabularies and expertise do not lie outside the realm of use; need for a ‘discipline’ that has no contingent boundaries… whose boundaries are the limits of possibility of being and knowing; the essential concern of metaphysics is with the outer limits of being; the limits of philosophy in its ideal form are the outer limits of being and understanding
Inheritance from the past – Greek and Scholastic philosophy… and other influences; the age of reason; reaction; Kant; Hegel; reaction to idealism; analytic philosophy – growth of formal systems, analysis of pure meaning and use, rejection of system and growth of piece-wise analysis, relegation of human concerns –except those that are simple enough to admit of symbolic formalization– to footnote status, conception of philosophy as a separate discipline defined by analysis of common language and meaning, recent but hesitant turn away from the limit to analysis of formal concepts with regard to content but not with regard to method; continental philosophy as marked by nihilist reaction to the failures of the past (‘modernism’ but note the distinct use) and recent joyful but esoteric and academic embrace of nihilist trends in politics, psychology and thought; influence of the professionalization of philosophy and the disciplines including the encouragement of piece-meal analysis by the forces of academic survival and hierarchy
A catalog of problems from chapter Problems of Metaphysics of Journey in Being-New World. Classical: being, substance, space, time, nature of metaphysics, forms, categories, atomism, change and constancy. Scholastic: universals and particulars, free will, existence and nature of God, soul and body. Modern: nature of the Real; mind and matter; identity, substance, ontology; identity over time, personal identity; causation and laws; probabilistic causation; laws of nature; matter, space and time; objects as substances vs. mere bundles of properties; conception of spirit; nature and existence of the external world, what is Real – reality of material things, organizing principles of nature. Recent: modality and counterfactuals; causation, regularity and counterfactuals; identity and necessity, Kripke – identity statements are necessary but knowable only a posteriori. Being as journey or becoming; becoming as being. Indian metaphysics: there are points of contact between Indian thought and the Theory of being. As a whole, Indian Philosophy recognizes the greatness of being (Brahman, the Real) and identity of the self (Atman, soul) with it; it stresses the immediate in karma (work) and moksa (salvation;) these ideas focus on what may be important to the Individual and to transformation; in ‘A History of Transformation’ below there is consideration of some schools of Indian thought that focus on these concerns
Encyclopedic system, enhancement by the Theory of being, main divisions – (A) Symbols and knowledge, (B) The universe, and (C) Artifact. Enhancements of traditional systems – (1) Study of the universe as a whole as physical science is replaced by two divisions, Metaphysics and general cosmology and Physical science, (2) While fact and value are seen as indistinct (which requires revaluation of both fact and value,) morals and faith and religion may be seen (in institutionalized) form as being among the institutions of society, (3) Logic as the one necessary law of the universe and all other science as locally contingent, (4) A variety of disciplinary integrations, insights and necessities made possible by extended reflection in light of the Theory of being
Action; adaptation; aesthetics; all being; Aristotle; Atman; atomism; attitude; being, theory of, theory of depth; Brahman; causation, cause; charisma; civilization; cognition; concept; consciousness; constitution; constraint; context; contingent; coordinate or local description; cosmology, general; deduction; definition; depth; descartes, rené, cartesian, cartesianism; domain of validity of a (scientific) theory demarked e.g. by region of space and time, by size of entity and energy of interaction; dynamics of being; east; economics; education; emotion; epistemology. see knowledge; evolution, theory of; exclusion; existence; experience; experiment; faith, doubt, faith and doubt, religion; faithfulness; feeling; fiction, fantasy, legend, literature, myth, story; form; foundation; global or supra-coordinate description; God; good, the; growth; Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich; Heidegger, Martin; history; human being, nature of; human knowledge. see knowledge; Hume, David; hypothesis; identity, theory of; identity, soul; individual; influence; inspiration; integration; intentionality; intuition in the sense of Kant; journey; Kant, Immanuel; karma; knowledge, epistemology, system of human; language; lateral analysis of the meanings of concepts; law (legal); life; limit, limits; literal; logic, theory of possibility; logos; mathematics; matter; meaning, use; meaning function of an article of faith or religion; mental causation; metaphysics, discipline whose object is the outer limit(s) of being, idealism, materialism; mind, mind-matter problem; modality, actuality, impossibility, necessity, possibility; Moore, G. E.; morals, ethics; Newton, Isaac; objectivity; originality - creative power in being and mind; outer limit. see metaphysics, philosophy; paradigm; paradox; pattern; perspective; philosophy, discipline whose limits are the outer limits of being, academic, analytic, continental, greek, indian, modern, ordinary language analysis, piecemeal analysis of ideas, recent, scholastic, western; plato; platonism; politics; power; precision; principles of thought. see thought, principles of; proof, showing; psyche; psychology; Quine, Willard Van Orman; real, the; reflexivity; science; sharing; society; socrates; stability; substance, spirit, spiritual; Thales of Miletus; theories of physics, newtonian mechanics, quantum theories; theory; theory of depth. see being; thought, principles of, principles of thought and transformation; time and space, space; transcendental; transcendental argument; transformation; understanding; universals; universe; value; variety; voice, personal and impersonal; void; west; Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Approaches or paths to transformation from theory of being, history of transformation, and actual deployment or experiment; forms of realization, ideal, the highest ideal, significant ideal, intermediate forms, immediate forms or here-and-now, discrete individual, habit of substance thought or essentialism; ideas, transformation, ultimate, actual transformation, virtual transformation, being, identity; illustration and experimental demonstration of the theory of being, proof, doubt, being and absence of being, emptiness of ideas relative to actual transformation; interaction; path, realization, ultimate, possibility, individual, occurrence, necessarily, realization, theory of identity, significance, meaning as significance, Vedanta, Atman, Brahman; system of actions or experiments, minimal, covering; Western ideas, Greek ideal, Freudian and other conceptualizations of growth, mystics and saints, shamanism, journey-quest, states of insight, hallucination, transformation of personality, Indian systems, Samkhya, Yoga, Bhagavad-Gita and its four yogic systems, Vedas, Upanishads, Buddha…, states of psychic sensitivity or altered states, enhancing or inducing, savant modes
Action; all being; ambition; arching; Atman; Ayurveda; being, theory of; Brahman; charisma; civilization; commitment; consciousness, awareness; contingent; cosmology; depth; dynamics of being; experiment; faith, doubt, faith and doubt; feasibility; fiction, myth; growth; history; identity, theory of; individual; induction; influence; integration; journey; karma; knowledge, system of human; language; life; limit, limits; logic; meaning; metaphysics; mind, sentience; modality, actuality, possibility; morals; object; personality; philosophy; proof, showing; psyche; psychology; real, the; sharing; significance in being or ‘meaning of life’; society; substance; symbol; system of complete and minimal experiment; theory; time and space, time; transformation, actual, virtual; unconscious, the; understanding; variety; Vedanta; voice, personal and impersonal
Affirmation, criticism, imagination, objection, refinement, review
Being, becoming, perception, thought, action
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