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27. September 2022

Terminology

While notions are discrete logically they are physically blurred by the neural nets that implement them and the purpose of any terminology is to train these nets in such a manner that the logical discreteness of the underlying notions is preserved. That being said, the way I arrive at terms is by either
  • centering a common notion, i.e. restoring its precise meaning,
  • aspectual neologisms, i.e. formally modifying a common notion so as to express a particular aspect of it,
  • aspectual fixation, i.e. reducing the meaning of a common notion to a particular aspect of it, and
  • circumstantial fixation, i.e. restricting the meaning of a common notion to a particular situation, in which it is being used.
Circumstantial neologisms would also be possible, but circumstantial expressions are common in common parlance, so that there's no need for them. At times, although this is more of an embarrassment than anything, I will also resort to generalisations, i.e.expanding the meaning of a common notion to a wider class of objects than it actually refers to, or specialisations, i.e. the reverse, resulting in clarifications of the sort in the narrower or in the wider sense. Also, I may use one and the same word as two different terms.

There is a habit in science to use foreign languages, especially Latin and Greek, as source material for scientific terms. There is also a habit in some sciences (e.g. mathematics) to use non-sense terms, i.e. terms that make no intuitive sense (ring, field, ideal, etc.) Applying non-sense terms to the natural logical forms of our thinking would be ruining the thinking of anyone who tries it, and while some languages may be better equipped to express these forms than others, it would still be a mistake not to seek them in one's own language.

Besides that my knowledge of no foreign language is sufficient to employ centering, aspectual neologisms, aspectual fixation and circumstantial fixation with any grace on all the logically discrete notions that I'm studying.

Still, I may try my hand at an English glossary.

Honourabilities (Ehrbarkeiten)
  • Connectedness (Verbundenheit)
  • Rightness (Rechtschaffenheit)
  • Peace (Frieden)
Examples (Vorbilder)
  • Connectedness (Eingebundenheit)
  • Righteousness (Rechtschaffenheit)
  • Ability (Können)
Assistances (Zuarbeiten)
  • Outreaching (Offenherzigkeit)
  • Right guiding (Rechtweisung)
  • Outhelping (Beispringen)
Stompednesses (Bestürztheiten)
  • Possessedness (Besessenheit)
  • Apprehensiveness (Beklommenheit)
  • Uneasiness [e.g. hemming and hawing] (Betretenheit)
Parts of the soul (Seelenteile)
  • Heed (Achtung)
  • Care (Sorge)
  • Lust [Old English] (Lust)
Faculties of awareness (Fakultäten des Gewahrseins)
  • Intellect (Verstand)
  • Reason (Vernunft)
  • Illustration (Anschauung)
Mindings (Besinnungen)
  • Pursuit (Verfolgung)
  • Concretisation (Einlösung)
  • Execution (Auslösung)
Assumed state (Bildung)
  • Experiences (Erfahrungen)
  • Composure (Haltung)
  • Plans (Vorhaben)
Composures (Haltungen)
  • Dealings (Umgänge)
  • Reminders (Vorhaltungen)
  • Priorities (Bestrebungen)
Constitutive elements of the assumed state (Bildungselemente)
  • Patterns of development (Entwicklungsmuster)
  • Treatments (Behandlungen)
  • Aims (Abzielungen)
Judging feelings of care (Beurteilende Gefühle der Sorge)
  • Dearness (Wertschätzung)
  • Love (Liebe)
  • Fondness (Anteilnahme)
Commandments of life (Lebensgeheiße)
  • Preference (Vorliebe)
  • Subjective belief (subjektiver Glaube)
  • Conscience (Gewissen)
Feelings of adequacy (Adäquanzgefühle)
  • Compelledness (Aufgerufenheit)
  • Meaningfulness (Bedeutsamkeit)
  • Assuredness / purposefulness (Zuversicht / Sinnhaftigkeit)
Moods (Stimmungen) vis-à-vis Composures (Haltungen)
  • Holiness (Heiligkeit) of Dealings (Umgänge)
  • Familiarity (Geheuerheit) instilled by Reminders (Vorhaltungen)
  • Appropriateness (Stimmigkeit) of Priorities (Bestrebungen)
Well, so far it has been satisfactory and chances are that these examples do illuminate the trinary nature of the soul, of which Plato speaks in the Republic and in Phaedrus and on which the upper and lower trigrams of the I Ching are based and the first and second trinity of churches in the Revelation (Smyrna, Ephesus, Pergamos and Sardis, Thyatira, Philadelphia, to stick to the 2,3,1-sequence of the glossary, whereas the sequence of the golden candlesticks is 3,2,1,-,1,2,3, though John jumps, after reaching the left 1 to the right 3, or, conceivably, going from right to left, from the right 1 to the left 3 and then from left to right.) Arthur Schopenhauer would not approve, yet he himself used the trinity of the faculties of awareness, inheriting it from Immanuel Kant. There is no question as to the validity of this approach and since man's mind hasn't changed in the last couple of millenia, there's only the question of having enough free time on your hands to reflect on it earnestly, and if anything, our time marks a low in contemplation.

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