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M O D E L
Model of Neutral-Inclusivity
CONTENTS
Direct links to parts below:
BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS
BOOK OF FUNDAMENTALS
BOOK OF SYMBOLS
Links to other Model pages:
LIST OF PROSE POEMS
LIST OF FIGURES
PREFATORY NOTES
I.
BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS
HAVING AND THINGNESS
Having component parts, attributes and relations
Having concrete and abstract things
One relation of having-as-an-element
The choice of ontological instrument
Sensible and nonsensical questions of ontology
On nominalism, phenomenalism and their antitheses
Species essentialism on spec
An instrumentalist attitude to ontology
The attributive versus the objectual view
Logical domains of discourse
The characteristics of two different interpretations
Second-order predicates on the objectual view
Attributes as ultimate constituents
Simplex and complex things in different domains
Abstraction and concretion
Concrete
and
abstract
Wholes
Their whole-, part- and pseudo-attributes
Extensional mereology
Having
and
part
in a strict and in a loose sense
Persons
Speaking person-to-person
The person as a pair of objects or object of a pair
As something having both a body and mental properties
The fourth of four lines of thought
Existence and thingness
The voidness of the metaphysical
everything
Pseudopredicates
For an
existence
which makes sense
The domain of a thing
CATENAS OF ATTRIBUTES AND RELATIONS
Beyond formal connectedness
A matter of being heavy, equally heavy or lighter
The concatenate predicates of a catena
The catena and its predicates as secondary things
Catenated and catenary predicates
Catenated and noncatenated, primary predicates
The tripartite structure of the catena
Subdivisions of the catena's extensionality
Other predicates from a catenical perspective
Nondeterminative predicates
Catenality and noncatenality
Catenical aspects
Antonymics and antonymical metaphysics
The sense in which predicates are noncatenical
Ways of classifying catenas
The four main criterions of classification
Explicit triads
Quasi-duads: bipolarity and extremity catenas
Quasi-hexaduads and quasi-monads
The catena's position in a derivation system
Basic or original catenas and difference catenas
Other derivative catenas
Factitious and nonfactitious derivations
The scope of catenization
The obscurities of a classical paradox
Special and universal catenizations
Where neutrality determines the mean
Where the mean determines neutrality and moderateness
ABOUT WHAT IS, CAN AND SHOULD BE
Three times, three spheres
To be in time or not to be in time
The triadic sphericity of reality
The realness of facts, modes and norms
The sphere a thing really is in
Nonpropositional and propositional reality
A hierarchy of propositional levels
Descriptive, speculative and normative thought
The normativeness of 'purely descriptive' theorizing
Propositional reality and language
The interplay of thought and language
Conceptual and evaluative meaning
Language as means and as product
The cultural norms of linguistic systems
The values of linguistic systems
The sex and age of traditional language
Some deficiencies of traditional language
Writing and speaking on new terms
TRUTH
Truth among others
Theories of truth
Definition and criterion
Attempts to eliminate
truth
Carried beyond belief by the bearers of truth
What should not be held true
Knowledge and faith
Some criterions for unjustifiable belief
RELEVANCY
The significance of
relevancy
Its width and depth
The use of
relevancy
in ethics
"Equal, unless ..."
Relevancy
or
relatedness
in other disciplines
The diversity of the notions of relevancy
Linguistic, logical and statistical notions
Phenomenological and other notions
The general structure underlying the diverse notions
Conceptual status of
relevancy
Redundant?
Formal or substantive?
Objective or subjective?
Factual-modal or normative?
Wholly consequentialistic?
Criterions of discriminational irrelevance
Inconsistence as one of five criterions
Fake focuses of relevancy
Pseudofactual relevancy
Dependence on internal or external nonrelevance
Truth and relevance on principle
Discriminational relevancy by analogy with truth
In conversations and in information
PARADIGMS OF DISCIPLINARY THOUGHT
Disciplinary thought in general
Its principles
Four departments: science and ideology
Four departments: philosophy and art
Denominational thought
Religion
The theodemonist problem of proved wrongs
The theodemonist problem of wrong proofs
The role of
normative supremeness
Paradigms in science and denominationalism
Science as a social phenomenon
The analogy
With certain qualifications
ELEMENTS OF NORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY
About saying what should be
Ontological and epistemological preliminaries
Objectivism versus subjectivism
Monism versus pluralism
Norms as interpreted principles
The horizons of a triple-tiered profile
Good
,
right
and
praiseworthy
Performance, intention and motivation
Sieving the values of the A- and C-horizons
The matching and mismatching of value categories
Naturalness
Knowledge and intelligence
Consequentialist theories
In general; utilitarianism in particular
Decision-theoretical consequentialism
Nonconsequentialist theories
Deontology`s duties and dilemmas
Rule-deontology
Both consequentialistic and deontological, or neither
RIGHT-DUTY CONSTELLATIONS
The basics of
having a right
Some traditional conceptions
The correlativity of rights and duties
Seven parties with their rights and duties
A constructional classification of rights and duties
The extrinsic right-duty constellation
The general intrinsic right-duty constellation
The special intrinsic right-duty constellation
Some alleged rights and justifications
Some traditional general justifications of rights
Political and civil rights
Social and economic rights
State and citizen; parent and child
Alleged counterrights
Ways of losing or weakening rights
The general nature of fundamental 'laws' and rights
Concepts and terminology
The extent and duration of the alienation of a right
The right to personhood
Existence of an extrinsic right-duty constellation
What the right to personhood does and does not entail
Alienating or overriding a right of personhood
PROPERTY
Conceptual analysis
Introduction
Having
,
possessing
and
owning
Property
as referring to a thing, relation or right
Property
as a legal, cultural or normative notion
Traditional proper and improper arguments
General aspects of justification
For private property
Against private property
Proper and improper descriptions of what is owned
Neither glorifying nor despising
Things possessed and not possessed
One's own body or its parts
Other people or their bodies
Land and natural resources
The means of production and communication
Money
Property as a right of personhood
The extrinsic ownership of people`s bodies
An equal share in all other things not person-made
The extrinsic ownership of person-made things
The exclusivity and inclusivity of extrinsic property
End of the Book of Instruments
F.
BOOK OF FUNDAMENTALS
THE NORM OF INCLUSIVITY
Basics
Formula of the norm
Why a non-metadoctrinal, nonpropositional principle?
Why discriminational, nondoxastic relevance?
Why taking the universal version?
Why a catenically neutralistic interpretation?
The norm informally
'The manager and the appearance of 'er workers'
Discrimination and attitudinal consistency
Condemnatory meanings of 'discrimination'
Distinguishing nonrelevant distinctions
The clustering of attitudes and practises
Inclusivity as a criterion of attitudinal consistence
Two principal attitudes
The exclusive and the inclusive attitudes
Can feelings about mixed scriptures be steady?
Universal ideals and omnifarious failures
Just a few examples
Peace instead of war
Democracy instead of dictatorship
Equality instead of discrimination
Tolerance instead of intolerance
Being free instead of being unfree
"... and at long last they realized how to proceed"
THE MANIFESTATIONS OF EXCLUSIVISM
How to survey a morass of irrelevance
Holding on to a tree with distinctive ramifications
Integral exclusivisms and the factor of distinction
Dimensional manifestations
Componential manifestations
Operational manifestations
The gravity of the distinction
Exclusivistic but not subanthropic
Sophistic
Superanthropic
Anthropic and ego-related
Physical subanthropic
Relative total
Absolute total
Partial-total
Partial: laterality-based
Sexual but not erotic
Erotic: activity-based and relational
Erotic: orientational
Otherwise partial
Basic nonphysical subanthropic
Personative
Nonpersonative
Thought-related subanthropic
Thought-related but not denominational
Primacy- and principle-related
Principalship-related
THE NORM OF NEUTRALITY
Basics
Formula of the norm
The principle of catenated neutrality
Why a catenical principle?
Why neutrality?
Why a relevantist interpretation?
Spatiotemporal neutrality and neutral-directedness
Misassociations and nonneutralist attitudes
The negativity-negatoriness misassociation
The highness-catenary misassociation
Extremism
Protoneutralism and protorelevantism
On neutral terms
The morphemes of neutralism
The values of neutralism
The requirements of neutralism
Well-being, happiness and beneficence
The situation of a happiness-catenal
The norm of well-being
Happiness as (a) value or unhappiness as (a) disvalue
The principle of beneficence
Equality
Forms of catenated equality
The traditional principle of equality
The norm of interpersonal equality
Nanhonore
Marks of honor exism
The norm of nanhonore
NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY, TRUTH AND PERSONHOOD
Neutral-inclusivity
The new model of harmony and unity
The non-metadoctrinal principles of one doctrine
Truth in a social perspective
True statements, promises and threats
Personal relationships and faithfulness
Truth and neutral-inclusivity
Truth and relevance in objectivity
Truth and neutrality in expectations
Realism before and after death
Veridicalism instead of supernaturalism
Personhood as one of four pillars
From ananorm to Ananorm
Freedom, extrinsic and intrinsic
The freedom not to support polarity or exclusivity
Freedom versus other values
Property, extrinsic and intrinsic
LIFE AND NONLIFE
The inviability of an ultimate principle of life
The meanings of
life
and
death
The so-called 'intrinsic value' or 'sanctity of life'
The right to live on the immutable norms
The lives of ecosystems and nonpersonal living beings
The lives of ecosystems and living beings in general
The lives of happiness-catenal beings
The living bodies of potential and dead persons
Causing, risking or allowing the death of others
Killing other people or their bodies at their request
Killing other people or their bodies against their will
Risking the death of other people or their bodies
Allowing the death of other people or their bodies
Causing, risking or allowing one`s own death
The reasons for choosing or risking death
The meaning of life and death
THE DOCTRINE OF NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY
The DNI, the adherent and conflicting duties
A synopsis
Potential conflicts between duties
Under the denomination of the Norm
The DNI, the state and political ideologies
Truth, nondiscrimination and the state
Monarchism
Politico-ideological exclusivism
The DNI, the state and religious ideologies
From religion-based to religious exclusivism
Freedom of religion and religionism
Denominational inclusivity instead of religionism
The question of denominational primacy
Some initial philosophizing on what comes first
Normism instead of theocentrism
The question tabled
Postreligious, catenical normism
Denominational and secular concerns
Postreligious, post-theodemonistic and catenical
A new denominational paradigm
End of the Book of Fundamentals
S.
BOOK OF SYMBOLS
THE REPRESENTATION OF NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY
Instrumentalism, fundamentalism and symbolism
The need and significance of symbols
The presentative versus the representative
Symbols and the mental or spiritual
Ways of classifying symbols
On the basis of medium, deductibility and function
On the basis of acceptability
THE CHOICE OF WORDS AND NAMES
The use and nonuse of linguistic symbols
Literal, metonymical and verbal symbolism
The neutral-inclusivist's choice of linguistic symbols
Speaking to or about sibs and other people
Sibs and siblings
Forms of address
The
n
-
a
series of neutralist morphemes
The two halves of linguistic symbolism reunited
The choice of vowel(s) and consonant(s)
Six morphemes, of which one ineffable
THE SUPREME AND THE NANAIC
The all-ananic
The concept of (the) supreme being
Its qualities, if catenal
The question of its catenality
The truth and relevancy of its existence
Ananic instead of in(s)ane
The all-nanaic
Both together
Two fundamental symbols
Whether to address oneself to a principal being
The dual character of the DNI's principal symbolism
A comparison with theodemonist principal beings
OBJECTS OF NONFUNDAMENTAL SYMBOLISM
Neutralistic and compatible signs
The Nanapolarity Catena
Sign language symbolism
Symbolism in art and design
The new weltanschauung's impact on art and design
The clothes of a neutral-inclusive model
The neutral-inclusive model of a building
DENOMINATIONAL OBSERVANCES
Forms of action and nonaction, thought and nonthought
The meaning of denominational observances
Meditation
Communion
A funeral ceremony
Special days of suprapersonal significance
A quarternary, metric calendar
The four Days of Neutrality
The observance of the Days of Neutrality
Social formulas of observance
Belonging to an association and not belonging to one
Formulas of symbolization and socialization
As to the supreme and the nanaic
As to the Days of Neutrality
BUILDING ON THE ANABASIS
The purpose of joining
The neutral-inclusive movement
Organizations and members
The Promise of Adherence
New centers
Of denominational engagement
Of research and education
Ceaselessly
End of the Book of Symbols
EPILOGUE
people will be served
by a neutral-inclusive model
to interpret the past,
to understand the present
and
to build on
for the future
Note:
the figures, letters and terminology
used for subdividing the total Model
are as follows:
I, F, S
books (BoI, BoF, BoS)
1, etc
chapters
1.1, etc
divisions
1.1.1, etc
sections
1.1.1.1, etc
paragraphs, prose poems or figures
© (Copyright) MVVM (Machiel Vincent van Mechelen)
41-79 aSWW (ordinal year after the Second World War)
Stichting DNI Foundation
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