What are the kinds of cosmoses—the most significant, effectively populous, and are they transient-one-step, background, subliminal (word), form and forming, experiential … and why and how (use sep—possible worlds)

An analogy

(The real metaphysics « The standard picture) « (Einstein « Newton)

Essential outline for a final essay on the way of being

Prologue

Origins—personal and historical, motive, overview with strategy, and worldviews; what people want

Being and metaphysics

Being and beings; universe, void, and laws; limitlessness; real metaphysics; some essential conclusions

Experience

The concept; its reality and reflexivity; meaning; knowledge

The extended concept of experience

Interpretations and their reality (or otherwise)

Agents of knowledge, value, appreciation, and for our world in itself and on the way to the ultimate

Cosmology

The universe and its identity; variety, extension, duration, and peak of being; cosmological systems, background; beings and their realizations—and mechanisms

Cosmologies and their conceptual underpinnings—general; form and formation; identity, spacetimebeing, the concept of situation; physical cosmology

Peak being; pathways to the ultimate

Ethics and aesthetics; an ultimate value and value framework

Instruments of realization

Pathways and programs

Pathways

Programs in the categories or dimensions of being

Epilogue

Resources

System of concepts

This system of concepts shall form an outline and framework for The Way of Being.

The concepts will be classed

• Existential vs Foundational (the distinction is pragmatic, and the division is porous)

◦ Existential – for living (secondary – applied)

◦ Foundational – how we create and know what we assert

• Basic vs Supporting

◦ Basic – core, categorial

◦ Supporting – supporting, secondary, detailed, lower level

The treatment of each concept will be—

• what it is (a definition and explanation), alternate and related meanings and the (systemic) issue of the meaning,

• why the concept is important, and

• how it relates to other concepts – vertical, horizontal, other… and how it fits into the system of concepts.

Existential	Foundational
purpose	human motivation
worldly	secular: safety, security, belonging, status, self-actualization
ways	experience, science
transformational	transsecular: transcendence
ways	rational, speculative (rational vs dogmatic)
universal	existential: being-in-the-universe
ways	intuition, imagination, immersion
growth	stages
	biological, social, human, universal
origins	sources
seeking, search	experience, reason history
beings (used in two senses)	beings
primary: whatever is, is a being	existents
secondary: whatever is, and is an agent for self, world, knowledge, value, appreciation of the world, and transformation of self and world	agents
	being
	primary: existence, property of beings as beings secondary: agency, property of agents as agents
though the secondary sense is rich and has tradition behind it, the primary sense is precise and allows later introduction of the second sense with greater richness and no essential loss in precision	why being is chosen as fundamental—it incorporates all existence as itself rather than in terms of preconceived and potentially pre-judicial concepts, e.g., mind or matter (mind and matter only as pragmatic) why being in the secondary sense is not chosen—though there is tradition behind it and it is rich in meaning, it would confuse and prejudice development; in the present approach richness will be included later and, it is found, with greater richness and precision
	epistemology
	theory of knowledge (including what it is)
	concern here is how being and beings are known
	abstraction
	if there neither beings nor being, there would be nothing
	metaphysics
	filling in the abstract framework with pragmatic knowledge as justified later
	system holism (not about atomism vs holism but individual and system meaning)
	categories (see table below)
Universe, beings, nothingness (the void)	Mereology (whole, part, null)
Experience experience of, the experience (relation),----> and the experienced (as if matter and mind) Action, agency, immersion	Consciousness Meaning Concept, relation, object; sign; linguistic meaning, symbol Knowledge (reflexivity of), conceptual, linguistic
Limitlessness Limits (real, not absolute) Overcoming, realization Becoming--------------------------> Paradox-------------------------------------->	Consistency (internal, external) Possibility Logic, logics Fact, inference, science General logic (is this the best name) Formation, form Dialetheia, paraconsistent logics Contra-diction vs contradiction Dis-diction vs contrareal Are there paradoxes at the heart of being? In a realist sense, no, for a paradox is disagreement among takes on or interpretations of the real – the real is simply what it is Thus, formal paradoxes have resolution On the other hand, there is a sense of paradox regarding true and apparent limits of beings (and as seen in the real metaphysics), beings are ultimately limitless and thus there is a sense of paradox regarding limits which are real but not absolute
	Abstract metaphysics > value Real metaphysics (the abstract + tradition – secular and transsecular, which is imperfect in terms of received criteria but not in terms of intrinsic criteria Knowledge, value, appreciation, and transformation Reflexively perfect
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