The way of being
Design and planning
Anil Mitra, Copyright 1986 – 2025

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Plan

Aim

First

Short

Long

Source documents

Main

Secondary

Historical

Directories

Other

Styles in use

The way of being – essential outline

Into the way

Being

Possibility

The ultimate

Experience

Metaphysics

Dimensions and paradigms of being

Enlightened pathways

Return

Reference

The way of being – parallel developments

Preliminary

Knowledge

Method and content

Metaphysics and philosophy

Cosmology

Some topics

The way of being
Design and planning

Plan

Update design and planning every session.

Aim

A minimal site and versions; short – as daily and ongoing inspiration

First

Reduce dimensions of being through realization for docs to just one doc: design and planning (this), essence of the way - micro, essence of the way, outline of the way, templates and dedication.

Short

Along with site – computer and mobile – as daily inspiration – with minimal reader and personal functionality – now.

…essential outline with brief plan

…center.top > out.down

…list driven and urgent > TWB.$.place.environs

Long

Main plan

Outline – now

Then – to be filled in, (i) from scratch (ii) using source documents.

Outline

Headings

Brief content remarks

Content

Tables of contents

Center – out, essential, academic, realization, sources, comments

Concepts, system, sequence of introduction, and possible database

What

Content

Meanings and definitions; existence of objects established, their nature explained; alternate and related terms

Concept development and relations among concepts; main vs subordinate

Meta-issues are issues—method, system, concept-holism, epistemic and existential motives for the concepts, focus – k-system rather than disciplines

A collection of alternate and related terms

Enlightenment, enjoyment

Why

Reasons for choice, significance, place in whole – relation to other concepts

Relation to received and ongoing meaning

Place among received meanings.

Reasons for differences (i) indefiniteness of ultimate meaning (ii) system and elements co-determine meaning; individual meanings are adjustable within the system

Sources

Reading, study topics

Comments

Source documents

what are the source documents –where to place them? here are some – which are to be reduced, essentialized, and imported from!

Main

Received ways

the way.html – i.e., ‘traditional ways’

../../2021/topic essays/the way.html

templates and dedication.html ‘pathways’

templates and dedication.html

System of human knowledge

a system of knowledge.html

../../2021/resources/a system of knowledge.html

a system of knowledge-supplement.html

../../2021/resources/a system of knowledge-supplement.html

Design documents

the world.pdf – ‘my program’

../../2022/theway/my life/the world.pdf

program for the way of being.html

../../2023/supporting/program for the way of being.html

design.html ‘site design’

../../2024/resources/design.html

Brief essentials

… and some possible canonicals – the way of being.html

../essays/the way of being.html

the way of being-plain.html especially the preview

../../2024/resources/the way of being-plain.html

Long and resource versions –

journey in being.html ‘resource version 2021’

../../2021/resources/journey in being.html

little manual.html has material on dialetheia and the source of logic; has a vocabulary for metaphysics and the way

../../2022/theway/little manual.html

Secondary

these documents are of lesser relevance to the way of being but not of lesser general importance

General interest

metaphysics and vocabulary for the way.html

../../2023/supporting/metaphysics and vocabulary for the way.html

what is philosophy.html

../../2021/ek project/what is philosophy.html

toward a database for philosophy.html

../../2021/ek project/toward a database for philosophy.html

necessity of being.html being founded in itself – in absolute necessity

../../2023/supporting/necessity of being.html

dimensions of being, experience, and the world.html dimensions and paradigms of being and experience

../../2022/theway/canonical/dimensions of being, experience, and the world.html

language for metaphysics.html part of the little manual (see above)

../../2022/theway/canonical/language for metaphysics.html

journey in being.html#lexicon earlier lexicon

../../2021/resources/journey in being.html#lexicon

Special interest

abstract objects.html

../../2023/supporting/abstract objects.html

dialetheia.html

../../2023/supporting/dialetheia.html

the year.html ‘journal 2024’ has further material on dialetheia and planning an essay on dialetheia

../../1. world and being/journey/journals/j 2024/the year.html

god.html a conception of god as (i) arising from the real metaphysics (ii) immanent (iii) a becoming of which all beings are a part

../../2023/supporting/god.html

the way of being – database.html preliminary to a database of concepts and more

../../2021/ek project/the way of being – database.html

world problems and opportunities.html part of journey in being.html#the_world (../../2021/resources/journey in being.html#the_world)

../../2021/resources/world problems and opportunities.html

Historical

journey in being.html – original version of 2002 – 2003

../../1. world and being/realization/being-elements/journey in being.html

Directories

2024 – 2025

2024 | 2024-a | 2024-a\resources

2023

2023 | supporting

2022

2022 | theway | theway\canonical | theway\my life | theway\my life\trips

2021

2021 | ek project | narratives | topic essays

2020

2020 | narratives | topic essays

Earlier

1. world and being\journey | 2010

Other

collect the documents which are marked by the ‘topic’ style.

sources of sources – index.html ‘2023 – supporting essays’../../2023/supporting/index.html | resources.html ‘2024 resources’ ../../2024/resources/resources.html

Styles in use

Introduce style ‘Academic Only’, perhaps using, ‘Academic 2’?

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Base – Alt + B – currently similar to General

Central – Alt + M – core material

Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style for headings and content not appear in short versions

General – Alt + G – geared to general reader

Heading I – Alt +I – I is a numeral from 1 to 9

Main – Alt + Z – important

Normal – Alt + N – for use without a particular purpose

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail use without a particular purpose

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization

Source or study topic – Alt + V

The way of being – essential outline

Into the way

Being

Possibility

The ultimate

Experience

Structure of experience deferred?

Metaphysics

This is the real metaphysics.

See essence of the way - short.docm for details.

Introduction

What is metaphysics?

We have already begun metaphysics, which is therefore possible—indicate how, i.e., by abstraction but that it is framework with objects of unknown location… which will be improved upon—and continue to develop it.

The ideal framework above shows what will be achieved but not how to best achieve it or what the ultimate is.

Real metaphysics

The metaphysics.

Metaphysics as science; as the knowledge discipline.

General logic.

Doubt and certainty

Method

Discovery and validity (justification).

The reflexive picture theory is void except for the ideal; and, in terms of axiology, for the pragmatics.

What is explanatory – origins, necessity of entire history…

Limitlessness of being and beings

Is the trajectory of all beings (i) rise and fall or (ii) eternal limitless peaking through return and emergence from potential (death and birth)?

Cosmology

Value

Dimensions and paradigms of being

See essence of the way - short.docm for details of headings and content.

The structure of experience

The dimensions and paradigms

Pure

Pragmatic

Joint considerations

E.g., economics as study of value; spirituality as creation of limitless value with cost in risk and pain.

General logic as paradigm

Essence and summary of the dimensions and paradigms

Enlightened pathways

For a beginning, see essence of the way - micro.docm.

Word ‘enlightened’.

The concept

Elements

Include ‘right’ attitude, speech, action for all being.

An enlightened pathway

Enlightened pathway

Addressing dimensions of being

Program

Elements

Personal

Universal

America, world

Program

Daily and as needed brief plan with function and inspiration.

Return

See outline of the way.docm.

Reference

See outline of the way.docm.

The way of being – parallel developments

Preliminary

See outline of the way.docm.

Treatment of developments may begin in the essential development of the way.

Continue to add to and revise the system for the following, perhaps by following the outline above.

Knowledge

What knowledge is

Criteria of validity and axiology.

Intentional picture theory – its domain of application despite its twofold limit.

Method: discovery and justification

A system based in the metaphysics

The disciplines – meta-disciplines – world vs knowledge – being as a unity. The essential oneness of metaphysics, epistemology (with logic), and axiology.

Implications for epistemology

Method and content

As noted above, method and content are one from—(i) knowledge is an essential part of the world (ii) reflexivity

Metaphysics and philosophy

Being and substance. Against proliferation of categories.

Objects and beings.

Cosmology

An experiential universe

Beyond consciousness – nothing beyond the essence but for grades of experience – the root to peak. Description of the peak.

Being, extension, and duration.

Some topics

A container for topics that may be standalone; to be revised and added to.

Dialetheia (and emptiness)

Concrete and abstract objects.