TRINPsite: Book of Instruments: Having and Thingness

Model: Book of Instruments

HAVING AND THINGNESS

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The first chapter of the Book of Instruments comprises the following seven divisions:

Having Component Parts, Attributes and Relations
with 1. Having concrete and abstract things
The Choice of Ontological Instrument
with 4. An instrumentalist attitude to ontology
The Attributive versus the Objectual View
with 2. The characteristics of two different interpretations
Attributes as Ultimate Constituents
with 3. Concrete and abstract
Wholes
with 1. Their whole-, part- and pseudo-attributes
Persons
with 2. The person as a pair of objects or object of a pair
Existence and Thingness
with 4. The domain of a thing

This chapter is also available as part of MNI/BoI1-3.txt, a plain text file which is, however, usually not up to date. It contains the first three chapters of the Book of Instruments and can be accessed from MNI/BoI.htm.

The Model of Neutral-Inclusivity continues with the following chapter: Catenas of Attributes and Relations.