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: essence
  |  informal version

Anil Mitra, Copyright © July 3, 2026

Older, detailed version.

Home

Contents

Writing, publishing

Documents

Site

Personal

Plan

Styles

Site resources for development

Currently important

Secondary

Inspiration

Some topics

Knowledge

Received paths

World problems and opportunities

Dialetheia

Database

Older

General

Special topics

Historical interest

Versions of the site

Foundational and other useful external resources

Resource overview

A set of influential thinkers

Some foundational topics

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

Documents

Site

Home, minimal, informal (essentialize), master, axiomatic, long.

Personal

My life > the world.dotm > trips.

Plan

 

Minimize and align content and documents.

Styles

journey in being.dotm

Site resources for development

Currently important

Content - content  and versions folders.

For its preview the way of being-plain.

For details journey in being (2021).

For details and material on dialetheia, the source of logic, a metaphysical vocabulary… the little manual.

Secondary

Many of documents below have plans.

Inspiration

The printables folder.

Some topics

The stems, snippets, canonical material folder.

Knowledge

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

Plans are in the documents.

Received paths

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

World problems and opportunities

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

Dialetheia

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

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 directoryindex of archived essays

Versions of the site

§  Current—2026 (there will be no 2025 version)

§  Current / recent—2024-a

§   Archived home pages—19992002200513171919+21222324.

Foundational and other useful external resources

Resource overview

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.

A set of influential thinkers

My influences, especially

§  Aristotle

§  Descartes

§  Hegel

§  Heidegger

§  Hume

§  Kant

§  Leibniz

§  Locke

§  Plato

§  Priest

§  Quine

§  Samkara

§  Spinoza

Some foundational 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

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