No doubt, providing even a modicum of personal
information about the author of the
Model of Neutral-Inclusivity, or of any such
monumental work for that matter, may
unnecessarily detract from the substance and
quality of the writing itself.
The information may even be used in some argumentum ad
hominum not of any general value, whether favorable or
unfavorable to the author
'imself, to the male author
himself or to the authoress herself.
Yet, if only to contribute to an objective history
of human civilization,
i have collected here a
few notes for those with a natural, sincere interest in the
creation of the Model, starting with the dawn of neutral
thought and the early days of neutral-inclusive thought.
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I began to develop
catenical thought, with
neutral thought in its wake, in the
Netherlands as a minor and young adult, eleven to
twenty-one years old.
This was before i graduated from the first
university i attended, in the 26th
(Metric Calendar) year after
the end of the Second World War.
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Inclusive thought i began to
develop in Canada as, what was then called, 'a landed
immigrant', when i was twenty-two to twenty-five years old.
I did not become fully aware of the significant role of
relevance in inclusive
thinking and acting (and in all those traditional
notions such as justice, equality and
discrimination in particular) until my
academic philosophical studies
about one decade later.
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During a one-year journey around the world
thru
North America, Oceania, Asia (for half a year) and Europe, i
took up making philosophical and
denominational notes again in
Afghanistan on my way to, and also in, Iran.
That is when and where i began to entertain the idea of writing
a book to be referred to as "the Model".
It would take a
normistic position, that
is, one based on the primacy of norms and values, instead of a
theocentrist one, that is, one based
on the primacy of gods and/or demons in the singular
or plural.
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The largest part of the first version of 'the Model of Neutral and
Inclusive Thought' i wrote in Great Britain at the end of my world tour,
31 aSWW, that is, in the 31st year after the Second World War.
Later i changed Neutral and Inclusive Thought into
Neutral-Inclusivity to make
clear that the Model was not only about thinking but
equally about behaving or acting; and to
emphasize the inseparability of
neutrality and
inclusivity in practice.
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It appears that the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity is and will be the last
denominational tome in human history of its
size written by hand: three books about a new worldview in
altogether 936 pages.
Not long after i finished this work the computer became available
as a word processor to the general public, which made all
handwriting on such a formidable scale
obsolete.
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Before finalizing the (handwritten and typewritten)
manuscripts of the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity i went back to
university, studied ethics, logics and
related historical and especially systematic
subjects, and graduated in philosophy
at the age of thirty-four years.
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Using the context name —'pen name', if you prefer— Vinsent
Nandi for the first time i self-published the Model in print in
the Netherlands, 41 aSWW.
Vinsent is a (more) phonematic variant of Vincent, also
meaning (of) the conquering one.
Those who have familiarized themselves with the
N-A Series of Neutralistic
Morphemes will recognize the nan in Nandi.
(Altho, apart from
the title page, Nandi occurs nowhere in the Model, there is one
paragraph in the
Book of Symbols which refers to this verbal
symbol implicitly.)
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The context for the use of the name Vinsent Nandi is a
neutral-inclusivistic one in which i do not intend to write about
particular political or religious
ideologies, individuals,
groups or countries at all or, at any rate, not by name,
because by mentioning them in order to praise or
condemn something a fallible person with a mortal body
such as i myself may simply be wrong or lack the means needed
to be entirely impartial in
'er choice of examples.
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Four years after the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity i published
Six Warlocks My Age, Tales
of Contemporary Supernaturalism, six short stories between
large quotes, of which, in spite of these quotes, some stories
should probably rather have been published (and may be
republished) under my civil ('real') name for the
reason given above.
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In the last year of writing the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity (which also
explains the use of
'e, 'im, 'er
and lowercase i) i began my English studies, and
three years after the publication of Six Warlocks My
Age i graduated in English language and
literature, forty-four years old.
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With the advent of global computer networks and the creation of
TRINPsite, 50 aSWW, it became
possible to make the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity easily and freely
available to all people with an internet connection
whose personal rights are not denied them by some
political, military or religious
totalitarian regime.
(Originally, TRINPsite was called "InSite".)
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Today you can read online almost the whole (digital) Model of
Neutral-Inclusivity, two thirds of Six Warlocks My Age and more
recent poems and notes under the name of Vinsent Nandi.
This includes the
Notes of the Metric Months,
which, by definition, are (still) being updated every month.
You can also listen to a great many
audio files on TRINPsite, among
which a fair number of Model texts and poems.
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Above you can find the audio file
As Something Having Both a Body and
Mental Properties (I.1.6.3.1) recorded by myself as
speaker and as 'sound technician' simultaneously.
On the surface, it is quite a personal Model sound file with no
fewer than twenty-six times I/i, my or me in
nine sentences.
Much more personal, however, is the first of the
Prefatory Notes to the Model, in spite of its
complete lack of any first-person pronoun.
It is about the very conditions under which the three
books of the Model were written.
Just listen to the text spoken by the author 'imself again in the
audio file
below.
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The Wheel of the Norm (in this same
folder) has more information about what
considerations played a role in writing the
Model of Neutral-Inclusivity.
Strictly speaking, it is only about the relationship
between a visual concrete symbol (the Wheel) and a
literary verbal one
(the Norm), but since these
symbols represent the normistic
denominational doctrine in its totality, it
also gives a better insight into the underlying creative
thought process.
Machiel Vincent van Mechelen
36.NEY-79.NEY
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