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This file is not part of the digital Model, as it may not be up to date and does not contain special symbols and fonts.] MODEL OF NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY by Vinsent Nandi, 41-62 aSWW C O N T E N T S LIST OF PROSE POEMS LIST OF FIGURES PREFATORY NOTES 1 BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS * 1 HAVING AND THINGNESS 1.1 Having component parts, attributes and relations 1.1.1 Having concrete and abstract things 1.1.2 One relation of having-as-an-element 1.2 The choice of ontological instrument 1.2.1 Sensible and nonsensical questions of ontology 1.2.2 On nominalism, phenomenalism and their antitheses 1.2.3 Species essentialism on spec 1.2.4 An instrumentalist attitude to ontology 1.3 The attributive versus the objectual view 1.3.1 Logical domains of discourse 1.3.2 The characteristics of two different interpretations 1.3.3 Second-order predicates on the objectual view 1.4 Attributes as ultimate constituents 1.4.1 Simplex and complex things in different domains 1.4.2 Abstraction and concretion 1.4.3 and 1.5 Wholes 1.5.1 Their whole-, part- and pseudo-attributes 1.5.2 Extensional mereology 1.5.3 and in a strict and in a loose sense 1.6 Persons 1.6.1 Speaking person-to-person 1.6.2 The person as a pair of objects or object of a pair 1.6.3 As something having both a body and mental properties 1.6.4 The fourth of four lines of thought 1.7 Existence and thingness 1.7.1 The voidness of the metaphysical 1.7.2 Pseudopredicates 1.7.3 For an which makes sense 1.7.4 The domain of a thing 2 CATENAS OF ATTRIBUTES AND RELATIONS 2.1 Beyond formal connectedness 2.1.1 A matter of being heavy, equally heavy or lighter 2.1.2 The concatenate predicates of a catena 2.1.3 The catena and its predicates as secondary things 2.2 Catenated and catenary predicates 2.2.1 Catenated and noncatenated, primary predicates 2.2.2 The tripartite structure of the catena 2.2.3 Subdivisions of the catena's extensionality 2.3 Other predicates from a catenical perspective 2.3.1 Nondeterminative predicates 2.3.2 Catenality and noncatenality 2.3.3 Catenical aspects 2.3.4 Antonymics and antonymical metaphysics 2.3.5 The sense in which predicates are noncatenical 2.4 Ways of classifying catenas 2.4.1 The four main criterions of classification 2.4.2 Explicit triads 2.4.3 Quasi-duads: bipolarity and extremity catenas 2.4.4 Quasi-hexaduads and quasi-monads 2.5 The catena's position in a derivation system 2.5.1 Basic or original catenas and difference catenas 2.5.2 Other derivative catenas 2.5.3 Factitious and nonfactitious derivations 2.6 The scope of catenization 2.6.1 The obscurities of a classical paradox 2.6.2 Special and universal catenizations 2.6.3 Where neutrality determines the mean 2.6.4 Where the mean determines neutrality and moderateness 3 ABOUT WHAT IS, CAN AND SHOULD BE 3.1 Three times, three spheres 3.1.1 To be in time or not to be in time 3.1.2 The triadic sphericity of reality 3.1.3 The realness of facts, modes and norms 3.1.4 The sphere a thing really is in 3.2 Nonpropositional and propositional reality 3.2.1 A hierarchy of propositional levels 3.2.2 Descriptive, speculative and normative thought 3.2.3 The normativeness of 'purely descriptive' theorizing 3.3 Propositional reality and language 3.3.1 The interplay of thought and language 3.3.2 Conceptual and evaluative meaning 3.4 Language as means and as product 3.4.1 The cultural norms of linguistic systems 3.4.2 The values of linguistic systems 3.4.3 The sex and age of traditional language 3.4.4 Some examples of linguistic deficiency 3.4.5 Writing and speaking on new terms 4 TRUTH 4.1 Truth among others 4.2 Theories of truth 4.2.1 Definition and criterion 4.2.2 Attempts to eliminate 4.2.3 Carried beyond belief by the bearers of truth 4.3 What should not be held true 4.3.1 Knowledge and faith 4.3.2 Some criterions for unjustifiable belief 5 RELEVANCY 5.1 The significance of 5.1.1 Its width and depth 5.1.2 The use of in ethics 5.1.3 "Equal, unless ..." 5.1.4 or in other disciplines 5.2 The diversity of the notions of relevancy 5.2.1 Linguistic, logical and statistical notions 5.2.2 Phenomenological and other notions 5.2.3 The general structure underlying the diverse notions 5.3 Conceptual status of 5.3.1 Redundant? 5.3.2 Formal or substantive? 5.3.3 Objective or subjective? 5.3.4 Factual-modal or normative? 5.3.5 Wholly consequentialistic? 5.4 Criterions of discriminational irrelevance 5.4.1 Inconsistence as one of five criterions 5.4.2 Fake focuses of relevancy 5.4.3 Pseudofactual relevancy 5.4.4 Dependence on internal or external nonrelevance 5.5 Truth and relevance on principle 5.5.1 Discriminational relevancy by analogy with truth 5.5.2 In conversations and in information 6 PARADIGMS OF DISCIPLINARY THOUGHT 6.1 Disciplinary thought in general 6.1.1 Its principles 6.1.2 Four departments: science and ideology 6.1.3 Four departments: philosophy and art 6.2 Denominational thought 6.2.1 Religion 6.2.2 The theodemonist problem of proved wrongs 6.2.3 The theodemonist problem of wrong proofs 6.2.4 The role of 6.3 Paradigms in science and denominationalism 6.3.1 Science as a social phenomenon 6.3.2 The analogy 6.3.3 With certain qualifications 7 ELEMENTS OF NORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY 7.1 About saying what should be 7.1.1 Ontological and epistemological preliminaries 7.1.2 Objectivism versus subjectivism 7.1.3 Monism versus pluralism 7.1.4 Norms as interpreted principles 7.2 The horizons of a triple-tiered profile 7.2.1 , and 7.2.2 Performance, intention and motivation 7.3 Sieving the values of the A- and C-horizons 7.3.1 The matching and mismatching of value categories 7.3.2 Naturalness 7.3.3 Knowledge and intelligence 7.4 Consequentialist theories 7.4.1 In general; utilitarianism in particular 7.4.2 Decision-theoretical consequentialism 7.5 Nonconsequentialist theories 7.5.1 Deontology's duties and dilemmas 7.5.2 Rule-deontology 7.5.3 Both consequentialistic and deontological, or neither 8 RIGHT-DUTY CONSTELLATIONS 8.1 The basics of 8.1.1 Some traditional conceptions 8.1.2 The correlativity of rights and duties 8.2 Seven parties with their rights and duties 8.2.1 A constructional classification of rights and duties 8.2.2 The extrinsic right-duty constellation 8.2.3 The general intrinsic right-duty constellation 8.2.4 The special intrinsic right-duty constellation 8.3 Some alleged rights and justifications 8.3.1 Some traditional general justifications of rights 8.3.2 Political and civil rights 8.3.3 Social and economic rights 8.3.4 State and citizen, parent and child 8.3.5 Alleged counterrights 8.4 Ways of losing or weakening rights 8.4.1 The general nature of fundamental 'laws' and rights 8.4.2 Concepts and terminology 8.4.3 The extent and duration of the alienation of a right 8.5 The right to personhood 8.5.1 Existence of an extrinsic right-duty constellation 8.5.2 What the right to personhood does and does not entail 8.5.3 Alienating or overriding a right of personhood 9 PROPERTY 9.1 Conceptual analysis 9.1.1 Introduction 9.1.2 , and 9.1.3 as referring to a thing, relation or right 9.1.4 as a legal, cultural or normative notion 9.2 Traditional proper and improper arguments 9.2.1 General aspects of justification 9.2.2 For private property 9.2.3 Against private property 9.2.4 Proper and improper descriptions of what is owned 9.2.5 Neither glorifying, nor despising 9.3 Things possessed and not possessed 9.3.1 One's own body or its parts 9.3.2 Other people or their bodies 9.3.3 Land and natural resources 9.3.4 The means of production and communication 9.3.5 Money 9.4 Property as a right of personhood 9.4.1 The extrinsic ownership of people's bodies 9.4.2 An equal share in all other things not person-made 9.4.3 The extrinsic ownership of person-made things 9.4.4 The exclusivity and inclusivity of extrinsic property 2 BOOK OF FUNDAMENTALS 1 THE NORM OF INCLUSIVITY 1.1 Basics 1.1.1 Formula of the norm 1.1.2 Why a non-metadoctrinal, nonpropositional principle? 1.1.3 Why discriminational, nondoxastic relevance? 1.1.4 Why taking the universal version? 1.1.5 Why a catenically neutralistic interpretation? 1.1.6 The norm informally 1.1.7 1.2 Discrimination and attitudinal consistency 1.2.1 Condemnatory meanings of 1.2.2 Distinguishing nonrelevant distinctions 1.2.3 The clustering of attitudes and practises 1.2.4 Inclusivity as a criterion of attitudinal consistence 1.3 Two principal attitudes 1.3.1 The exclusive and the inclusive attitudes 1.3.2 Can feelings about mixed scriptures be steady? 1.4 Universal ideals and omnifarious failures 1.4.1 Just a few examples 1.4.2 Peace instead of war 1.4.3 Democracy instead of dictatorship 1.4.4 Equality instead of discrimination 1.4.5 Tolerance instead of intolerance 1.4.6 Being free instead of being unfree 1.4.7 "... and at long last they realized how to proceed" 2 THE MANIFESTATIONS OF EXCLUSIVISM 2.1 How to survey a morass of irrelevance 2.1.1 Holding on to a tree with distinctive ramifications 2.1.2 Integral exclusivisms and the factor of distinction 2.1.3 Dimensional manifestations 2.1.4 Componential manifestations 2.1.5 Operational manifestations 2.1.6 The gravity of the distinction 2.2 Exclusivistic but not subanthropic 2.2.1 Sophistic 2.2.2 Superanthropic 2.2.3 Anthropic and ego-related 2.3 Physical subanthropic 2.3.1 Relative total 2.3.2 Absolute total 2.3.3 Partial-total 2.3.4 Partial: laterality-based 2.3.5 Sexual but not erotic 2.3.6 Erotic: activity-based and relational 2.3.7 Erotic: orientational 2.3.8 Otherwise partial 2.4 Basic nonphysical subanthropic 2.4.1 Personative 2.4.2 Nonpersonative 2.5 Thought-related subanthropic 2.5.1 Thought-related but not denominational 2.5.2 Primacy- and principle-related 2.5.3 Principalship-related 3 THE NORM OF NEUTRALITY 3.1 Basics 3.1.1 Formula of the norm 3.1.2 The principle of catenated neutrality 3.1.3 Why a catenical principle? 3.1.4 Why neutrality? 3.1.5 Why a relevantist interpretation? 3.1.6 Spatiotemporal neutrality and neutral-directedness 3.2 Misassociations and nonneutralist attitudes 3.2.1 The negativity-negatoriness misassociation 3.2.2 The highness-catenary misassociation 3.2.3 Extremism 3.2.4 Protoneutralism and protorelevantism 3.3 On neutral terms 3.3.1 The morphemes of neutralism 3.3.2 The values of neutralism 3.3.3 The requirements of neutralism 3.4 Well-being , happiness and beneficence 3.4.1 The situation of a happiness-catenal 3.4.2 The norm of well-being 3.4.3 Happiness as value or unhappiness as disvalue 3.4.4 The principle of beneficence 3.5 Equality 3.5.1 Forms of catenated equality 3.5.2 The traditional principle of equality 3.5.3 The norm of interpersonal equality 3.6 Nanhonore 3.6.1 Marks of honor exism 3.6.2 The norm of nanhonore 4 NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY, TRUTH AND PERSONHOOD 4.1 Neutral-inclusivity 4.1.1 The new model of harmony and unity 4.1.2 The non-metadoctrinal principles of one doctrine 4.2 Truth in a social perspective 4.2.1 True statements, promises and threats 4.2.2 Personal relationships and faithfulness 4.3 Truth and neutral-inclusivity 4.3.1 Truth and relevance in objectivity 4.3.2 Truth and neutrality in expectations 4.3.3 Realism before and after death 4.3.4 Veridicalism instead of supernaturalism 4.4 Personhood as one of four pillars 4.4.1 From ananorm to Ananorm 4.4.2 Freedom: extrinsic and intrinsic 4.4.3 The freedom not to support polarity or exclusivity 4.4.4 Freedom versus other values 4.4.5 Property: extrinsic and intrinsic 5 LIFE AND NONLIFE 5.1 The inviability of an ultimate principle of life 5.1.1 The meanings of and 5.1.2 The so-called 'intrinsic value' or 'sanctity of life' 5.1.3 The right to live on the immutable norms 5.2 The lives of ecosystems and nonpersonal living beings 5.2.1 The lives of ecosystems and living beings in general 5.2.2 The lives of happiness-catenal beings 5.2.3 The living bodies of potential and dead persons 5.3 Causing, risking or allowing the death of others 5.3.1 Killing other people or their body at their request 5.3.2 Killing other people or their body against their will 5.3.3 Risking the death of other people or their body 5.3.4 Allowing the death of other people or their body 5.4 Causing, risking or allowing one's own death 5.4.1 The reasons for choosing or risking death 5.4.2 The meaning of life and death 6 THE DOCTRINE OF NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY 6.1 The DNI, the adherent and conflicting duties 6.1.1 A synopsis 6.1.2 Potential conflicts between duties 6.1.3 Under the denomination of the Norm 6.2 The DNI, the state and political ideologies 6.2.1 Truth, nondiscrimination and the state 6.2.2 Monarchism 6.2.3 Politico-ideological exclusivism 6.3 The DNI, the state and religious ideologies 6.3.1 From religion-based to religious exclusivism 6.3.2 Freedom of religion and religionism 6.3.3 Denominational inclusivity instead of religionism 6.4 The question of denominational primacy 6.4.1 Some initial philosophizing on what comes first 6.4.2 Normism instead of theocentrism 6.4.3 The question tabled 6.5 Postreligious, catenical normism 6.5.1 Denominational and secular concerns 6.5.2 Postreligious, post-theodemonistic and catenical 6.5.3 A new denominational paradigm 3 BOOK OF SYMBOLS 1 THE REPRESENTATION OF NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY 1.1 Instrumentalism , fundamentalism and symbolism 1.2 The need and significance of symbols 1.2.1 The presentative versus the representative 1.2.2 Symbols and the mental or spiritual 1.3 Ways of classifying symbols 1.3.1 On the basis of medium, deductibility and function 1.3.2 On the basis of acceptability 2 THE CHOICE OF WORDS AND NAMES 2.1 The use and nonuse of linguistic symbols 2.1.1 Literal, metonymical and verbal symbolism 2.1.2 The neutral-inclusivist's choice of linguistic symbols 2.2 Speaking to or about sibs and other people 2.2.1 Sibs and siblings 2.2.2 Forms of address 2.3 The - series of neutralist morphemes 2.3.1 The two halves of linguistic symbolism reunited 2.3.2 The choice of vowel(s) and consonant(s) 2.3.3 Six morphemes, of which one ineffable 3 THE SUPREME AND THE NANAIC 3.1 The all-ananic 3.1.1 The concept of (the) supreme being 3.1.2 Its qualities, if catenal 3.1.3 The question of its catenality 3.1.4 The truth and relevancy of its existence 3.1.5 Ananic instead of in(s)ane 3.2 The all-nanaic 3.3 Both together 3.3.1 Two fundamental symbols 3.3.2 Whether to address oneself to a principal being 3.3.3 The dual character of the DNI's principal symbolism 3.3.4 A comparison with theodemonist principal beings 4 OBJECTS OF NONFUNDAMENTAL SYMBOLISM 4.1 Neutralist and compatible signs 4.1.1 The Nanapolarity Catena 4.1.2 Sign language symbolism 4.2 Symbolism in art and design 4.2.1 The new weltanschauung's impact on art and design 4.2.2 The clothes of a neutral-inclusive model 4.2.3 The neutral-inclusive model of a building 5 DENOMINATIONAL OBSERVANCES 5.1 Forms of action and nonaction , thought and nonthought 5.1.1 The meaning of denominational observances 5.1.2 Meditation 5.1.3 Communion 5.1.4 A funeral ceremony 5.2 Special days of suprapersonal significance 5.2.1 A quarternary, metric calendar 5.2.2 The four Days of Neutrality 5.2.3 The observance of the Days of Neutrality 5.3 Social formulas of observance 5.3.1 Belonging to an association and not belonging to one 5.3.2 Formulas of symbolization and socialization 5.3.3 As to the supreme and the nanaic 5.3.4 As to the Days of Neutrality 6 BUILDING ON THE ANABASIS 6.1 The purpose of joining 6.2 The neutral-inclusive movement 6.2.1 Organizations and members 6.2.2 The Promise of Adherence 6.3 New centers 6.3.1 Of denominational engagement 6.3.2 Of research and education 6.4 Ceaselessly EPILOGUE *Note: the figures, letters and terminology used for subdividing the total Model are as follows: I, F, S books (or BoI, BoF, BoS) 1, etc chapters 1.1, etc divisions 1.1.1, etc sections 1.1.1.1, etc paragraphs, canonical prose poems or figures L I S T O F P R O S E P O E M S To the early readers ............................ I.1.1.1.1 Temporal and nontemporal truth .................. I.3.1.1.1 The three spheres of inclusive truth ............ I.3.1.2.1 'Truth', 'property', 'life' and 'supremeness' ... I.4.1.1 The world, one and uniform ...................... I.5.4.4.0 The spirit of the most exclusive ................ I.6.2.3.0 No love for agapism ............................. I.7.1.4.0 From irrelevance set free ....................... F.1.1.7.0 A province of inclusivity ....................... F.1.3.2.0 Where there is a will ........................... F.1.4.7.0 What we can speak about ......................... F.2.2.1.1 The exclusive poem of the only male god ......... F.2.3.5.1 The adjectives forgotten or concealed ........... F.2.5.1.1 Supreme being above god and demon ............... F.2.5.3.0 The catenical dao ............................... F.3.1.5.0 The principle of catenated neutrality ........... F.3.3.1.1 Respect ......................................... F.3.6.1.1 The cause of neutral-inclusivity ................ F.4.1.1.1 Realistic ....................................... F.4.3.3.1 Truth, relevance and neutrality together ........ F.4.3.4.0 The dominion of the x-ist father and his sons ... F.5.1.3.1 The dao of nanhonore ............................ F.5.4.2.0 The Norm does not require; the Norm requires .... F.6.1.3.0 The primacy of the norm ......................... F.6.4.3.1 For goodness' sake .............................. F.6.5.1.1 A denominational doctrine ....................... F.6.5.2.1 The symbol of symbols ........................... S.1.2.1.1 The name of the supreme being ................... S.2.3.3.0 For the sake of the supremely normative ......... S.3.1.5.0 The supreme and the images of gods and demons ... S.3.3.4.1 The artistic achievements of what we reject ..... S.4.2.1.1 The final anagnorisis ........................... S.5.1.4.1 Neutralist chant ................................ S.5.3.4.0 The wheel of the Ananorm ........................ S.6.2.2.0 Narrow is the neutral Middle Path ............... S.6.3.2.1 To Ananda, a poem of millenniums ................ S.6.4.1 L I S T O F F I G U R E S Two distinct interpretations of formal systems .. I.1.3.2.1 Two distinct representations of complex things .. I.1.3.2.2 Identity between attributes in different domains I.1.4.1.1 Relations between and with primary attributes ... I.1.4.1.2 The process of abstraction ...................... I.1.4.2.1 Relations between wholes and their elements ..... I.1.5.2.1 Dualist, objectual view of bodies and souls &c .. I.1.6.2.1 Attributive view of persons ..................... I.1.6.3.1 Existence and thingness in the first domain ..... I.1.7.4.1 First-order counterparts of the catena &c ....... I.2.1.3.1 Position of typical catenated predicates ........ I.2.2.3.1 The hierarchy of propositional levels ........... I.3.2.1.1 'Width' and 'depth' of discriminational relevancy I.5.1.1.1 The structure underlying the notions of relevancy I.5.2.3.1 Classification of the forms of relevance ........ I.5.2.3.2 Four departments of disciplinary thought ........ I.6.1.3.1 Performance versus decision ..................... I.7.2.2.1 The depth of nonmotivist ethical doctrines ...... I.7.2.2.2 Extrinsic right-duty constellations ............. I.8.2.2.1 General intrinsic right-duty constellations ..... I.8.2.3.1 Special intrinsic right-duty constellations ..... I.8.2.4.1 Ways of losing or weakening rights .............. I.8.4.2.1 Dimensional manifestations of exclusivism ....... F.2.1.3.1 Componential manifestations of exclusivism ...... F.2.1.4.1 Operational manifestations of exclusivism &c .... F.2.1.5.1 The four pillars of the Ananorm ................. F.4.4.1.1 The three pillars of the DNI &c ................. F.6.1.1.1 The norms and values of the DNI ................. F.6.1.1.2 Past-, present- and future-regarding teleology .. F.6.1.1.3 & F.6.1.1.4 The question of denominational primacy .......... F.6.4.3.1 & F.6.4.3.2 The morphemes of the - series ............. S.2.3.3.1 Some variants of the nanacatena ................. S.4.1.1.1 Some corporal signs ............................. S.4.1.2.1 Symbolic garments ............................... S.4.2.2.1 Symbolic architectonic structures ............... S.4.2.3.1 P R E F A T O R Y N O T E S The work on the books of this Model was not supported by any governmental or private agency, institute or organization, neither was the author while writing these books. It is precisely because no support by any organization, group or person with national, military, party-political, class-linked, commercial, proprietary, traditional or other interests was, or had to be, solicited that this work has been made possible. Being written in a pre-, or rather inter-paradigmatic, period of denominationalism it is addressed to the world, or to the learned world, at large; being inclusivistic it is not addressed to any country, or region of the world, in particular. Only future generations will be able to tell how long before the year 1 this Model was published for the first time. Till then everyone is condemned to choose imperfect means to record the moment an event like the first publication of this work took place. Using a less imperfect frame of reference it may be said that this work was printed and distributed for the first time 41 years after the end of World War II. This information also lays stress on one of the reasons for coming into the open with the Model: that the end of the supernaturalist, exclusivist era should not be marked by such a great catastrophe as a nuclear world war. The early readers can either stay with the ignorant and reactionary who look backward to 'the year 1', or join those who, by adopting a new course, look forward to the year 1. Now there is this alternative. M V V M [BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS, PART I: see BoI1-3.txt] [BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS, PART II: see BoI4-6.txt] [BOOK OF INSTRUMENTS, PART III: see BoI7-9.txt] [BOOK OF FUNDAMENTALS, PART I: see BoF1-3.txt] [BOOK OF FUNDAMENTALS, PART II: see BoF4-6.txt] [BOOK OF SYMBOLS: see BoS1-6.txt] E P I L O G U E In the terms of a symbolic representation several thousands of years old, a doctrine is a vehicle that is to carry people across the water flowing between the land of mere being and the land of purity or perfection. This is in our present terms: a vehicle that is to lead us from the factual to the normative sphere. Once the other shore has been reached, the vehicle itself is not needed anymore. Taking the doctrine with us on the other side would be as senseless as dragging a boat along when already having attained the shore of the new territory. The sage of the ancient metaphor leaves the boat behind 'im in the stream. The importance of the DNI lies in its being the carrier of denominational, normative information for all persons. It is a means to overcome external constraints and to surpass our former selves. Yet, once the end of neutral-inclusivity has been reached, the DNI becomes superfluous. Since a mere instrument would only degenerate into an end in itself then, the sage adherent does, at that moment, not hold onto it anymore. It is the non-attachment of the final anagnorisis which will free 'im from the inconstancy of fortune, from the wheel of action and reaction. After all, the ultimate, universal state of truth, relevance and neutrality is empty of any ideology, empty of any doctrine. [Copyright ©MVVM, 41-69 a(fter)S(econd)W(orld)W(ar) M. Vincent van Mechelen] [TRINPsite, trinp.org; owner Stichting DNI Foundation, reception2@trinp.org]