The Way of being – outline edition
(in-process)

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

Anil Mitra, copyright © first edition – 2002
this version – May 2, 2026

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Contents

Plan

Notation

What is The Way of Being?

Definitions

About definitions

The definitions

Being (substance) and knowledge

Experience and being

Value and ‘the meaning of life’

Knowledge, precision, and value

Language, concept meaning, and knowledge

Discovery

Argument

The universe

Being and beings

The universe and its contents

Cosmoses

The void and its existence

Paradox / dialetheia

Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Possibility, limitlessness, and logic

Ideal and real metaphysics

Some consequences

Experience, ethics, and meaning

Categories and cosmology

Knowledge / World*

Pathways

Return

The focus

Retreat and renewal

Universal narrative

The Way of being

Plan

Improve, think

Execute comments

Notation

What is The Way of Being?

This is developed in master > wide angle view.

Definitions

About definitions

The definitions

Being (substance) and knowledge

Experience and being

Being and be-ing

Being vs beings

Being vs be-ing

Value and ‘the meaning of life’

Knowledge, precision, and value

Refer to the SEP article

Language, concept meaning, and knowledge

How does acquaintance fit here?

Discovery

Argument

Direct

Observation (acquaintance) / description / necessary

Indirect

Certain vs ‘probable’ inference

The universe

High level conceptual structure

Being and beings

The universe and its contents

Cosmoses

The void and its existence

Paradox / dialetheia

Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Possibility, limitlessness, and logic

Ideal and real metaphysics

Some consequences

Experience, ethics, and meaning

Categories and cosmology

Categories

Get and combine with cosmology; to ‘our world’ add ‘needs’ here and in the master

Cosmology

General cosmology

What is cosmology?

Theory

Computational general cosmology

Generating possibilities of being for the universe

A theory of form and cause

Abstract and concrete objects

Cosmology of form and formation

Cosmology of experiential being

No kind beyond experience but there are grades of experience from root to peak.

Hierarchy of experiential being

Description of peak being

Identity, spacetime-being, and property

Alternative physical cosmologies

Physical cosmology

Essential physical theory

Standard cosmology and alternatives

Knowledge / World*

Introduction

Knowledge and the world

Topics in philosophy and metaphysics

Ethics and meaning

Cosmology

Pathways

What pathways are

Design of pathways – elements (cats, time scales…)

Some attributes (attitude…)

Templates

Resources

Institute

Return

The focus

Retreat and renewal

Universal narrative

Introduction

Writing and updating universal narrative

On universal narrative