Design and Planning for The Way of Being

Current editions: master (working)
Derived from the master: long (in-process) | axiomatic (essential content)
Not derived from the master: micro | informal version

Anil Mitra, Copyright © April 20, 2026

Older, detailed version.

Home

Contents

Writing, publishing

Styles

Publication and advertising

Site structure and planning

Resources for site development

Currently important

Secondary

Older

Versions of the site

External resources

The following is a brief set that may be useful

For surreal numbers

Possible worlds and possibilities

Ethics

Meaning

Reason, logic, knowledge

Politics and economics

Other topics

Design and Planning for The Way of Being

Writing, publishing

Plans are in the original documents – axiomatic and master.

Align this, all the above, and zero > my life > the world.dotm > trips.

Styles

Styles are now in the document template.

Publication and advertising

Realize, experience, share, read, reflect, write, advertise, publish cycle.

Site—(i) personal (ii) twb: essence, appeal, invite, image size, relinking.

Main works—this (design and planning), master, brief essence, informal, home.

Site structure and planning

This section lists main resources for (i) living (ii) developing the way. The emphasis is on interests of author and readers.

Resources for site development

The following are site pages. For other resources, see external resources above.

These resources are intended for use in developing the way and the site—for me and others who want to contribute.

Currently important

The content folder has details for the main site documents.

The versions folder has some documents that may be useful, including outline of the way-January 27, 2025.docm and the way of being - essential-July 25, 2025.docm.

The document, the way of being-plain.docm (html) (folder), especially the preview.

The detailed document, journey in being.docm (html) (folder), resource version of 2021.

The detailed document, little manual.docm (html) (folder) of 2022 – 2024. It has material on dialetheia, the source of logic, and a language for metaphysics (vocabulary), and more.

Secondary

These resources enhance understanding and implementing the way of being. The resources for development, below, may also be useful.

Inspiration

Currently in the printables folder.

Topics

Currently in the stems, snippets, canonical material folder.

Printable versions of the way of being

Currently in the print folder.

Knowledge

The documents, (i) a system of knowledge.docm (html) (ii) a system of knowledge-supplement.docm (html) (folder).

Plans are in the documents.

Received or traditional ways of being, e.g., world religions

The document, received ways of realization.docm (html) (folder).

Planning is in the document.

World problems and opportunities

The document, world problems and opportunities.docm (html) (folder).

Planning is now in the document.

Dialetheia

The document, dialetheia.docm (html) (folder), may be useful as (i) informative (ii) material for a publication.

Planning is now in the appendices of the document.

Database

Plan

With optional sep.

Currently no main document.

Sources

the way of being.mdb.

Older

Documents of lesser importance to development and use of the way.

The documents may have intrinsic interest.

General

metaphysics and vocabulary for the way.docm (html) (folder).

what is philosophy.docm (html) (folder).

toward a database for philosophy.docm (html) (folder).

necessity of being.docm (html) (folder) being founded in itself – in absolute necessity.

dimensions of being, experience, and the world.docm (html) (folder) dimensions and paradigms of being and experience.

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

journey in being.docm#lexicon (html) (folder) [earlier lexicon].

Principles of Reason (html) (folder) has some thoughts toward method.

Journey in Being (html) (folder) has a lexicon and a history of the metaphysics, which may be useful to the lessons.

Realization--resource version (html) (folder) more on history and another lexicon.

The Way of Being (html) (folder) has a brief glossary.

fundamental paradigms for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder).

Special topics

abstract objects.docm (html) (folder).

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

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

the way of being – database.docm (html) (folder) preliminary to a database of concepts and more.

Historical interest

journey in being.docm (html) (folder) – original version of 2002 – 2003.

archive of old documents – folder.

Archived essays as of 2010—archive directory, index of archived essays

Versions of the site

Current—2026 (there will be no 2025 version)

Current / recent—2024-a

Archived home pages—1999, 2002, 2005, 13, 17, 19, 19+, 21, 22, 23, 24.

External resources

Current sources that may be used (i) directly (ii) to create a more complete listing (also see database).

The detailed document, little manual.docm (html) (folder) of 2022 – 2024 has an extensive list of external resources.

Suggested reading (2022).

Useful links and the compact daily links.

Main influences for the way.

The following is a brief set that may be useful

My influences, especially

Aristotle

Descartes

Hegel

Heidegger

Hume

Kant

Leibniz

Locke

Plato

Priest

Quine

Samkara

Spinoza

Some topics –

AI

dialetheism

emergence of first order logic

first order logic with substitution

god (hiddenness of and necessary beings)

Heidegger on Being

logic and logical calculi

logic and ontology

physical cosmology

set theory with ZF axioms (axiom of choice)

surreal numbers

universal logic and algebra

Also see

For surreal numbers

https://www.tondering.dk/download/sur16.pdf

https://www.whitman.edu/Documents/Academics/Mathematics/Grimm.pdf

Possible worlds and possibilities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibility_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_plenitude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_possibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_(dialogue)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/afterlife/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-ultimates/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-timaeus/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-objects/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-worlds/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simulations-science/

Ethics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

Meaning

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning-holism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/word-meaning/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning-normativity/

Reason, logic, knowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Foundations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(logic)

https://iep.utm.edu/propositional-logic-sentential-logic/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/infinity/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox > Quine's classification

Politics and economics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/economics/ – philosophy of economics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/global-democracy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/world-government/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democracy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/

https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo - world economic outlook

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy

AI searches for “sustainable politics and economy for the world that focuses on stability and sustainability and quality life for all people” and “world political-economy for sustainability, stability, and quality of life”

Other topics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/categories/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_(philosophy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience