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A Vocabulary for the Real Metaphysics Copyright © Anil Mitra, September 27, 2002 – March 30, 2023 Website since 1999 Contents the concepts 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. 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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. impossibility necessity 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— extended modal logic deviant many value paraconsistent dialetheia symbol in the form of a contradiction, which has or may have a real object generalization of dialetheia allowable symbol diction disallowable symbol contrareal set theory metaphysics 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 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 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 validity soundness reason yoga rationality value (treated separately, below) cosmology (treated separately, below) ethics aesthetics 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 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 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 humanism philosophy knowledge reason tradition religion …and the given world science sciences general abstract symbolic systems metaphysics method physical life psychological social abstract concrete methods artifact …and the created world art 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 (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 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, 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 |