Glossary
Essential Definitions of Technical Words Used In This Work
Welcome to the Paradigm of Responsive Naturing. The following interactive visualization allows you to see the connective structure of this novel paradigm’s lexicon. Hovering over a node will highlight that node’s nexus of references. You can also drag the node around to see the links that make up its nexus more clearly. Arrows on the links show the direction of the reference. Note that some links are reciprocal and they have the two arrows tip-to-tip, giving the appearance of an “x”. If you select the node, it will freeze in place, and a pop-up will appear with a direct link to the node’s definition in this glossary. After accessing the definition, using your browser’s back arrow will return you to the visualization.
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The words in this glossary play an important role in the paradigm of Responsive Naturing. Some are existing words, and their current customary definitions are placed here for your convenience. Some of the others, and the most important for this work, are the protologisms that I have created in order to break free of the confining structuring of our thoughts by the extent paradigm of mechanical materialism. The rest are existing words which are used in a special way in this work. It has been my understanding, for many decades, that we cannot free ourselves from the structuring of our thoughts by the extant paradigm, if we continue to use the same words and conceptual ideas that have come into use in support of that. As Benjamin Lee Whorf, whose work first came to my attention during my teenage years, summed up his research findings:
“The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscope flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds – and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and describe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way – an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language. The agreement is, of course, an implicit and unstated one, BUT ITS TERMS ARE ABSOLUTELY OBLIGATORY; we cannot talk at all except by subscribing to the organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees. (“Language, Thought & Reality,” by Benjamin Lee Whorf, edited by John B Carroll, 1956, pages 213-214).
There are eighteen protologisms that were created specifically for this work, because there are no words that adequately describe the necessary meaning in English, and therefore, would be misleading. They are indicated by the label “protologism” next to their word class at the top of the entry for that word. “Protologism” is a neologism that has only been introduced, and is not yet used by others.
For your reference, here are direct links to the protologisms: Affective Response, Biphasic Perception, Canosis, Cognitive Frame, Coherent Continuity, False Halt, Great Responsiveness Meditation, Imperience, Inner Spontaneous Sound, Inseparable Coherence, Mental Clarity, Metanoic, Naturing, Omninclusive, Omnintrinsic, Pronoumenal, Propriogestæ, Sciomorphogenesis.
There are also thirty-nine words that are marked with the label “Special Use.” Some of these are existing words whose original meaning is no longer in use, but that particular meaning is needed to best express an idea used in this book in a succinct manner. Some of these words have a plethora of meanings so as to be nearly useless to the reader’s understanding, and so I have specifically noted the meaning that I am expressing with that word. As well, some are existing words whose current meaning is almost what I need for this work, and so I have indicated the exact meaning — even if only a subtle difference — that I am expressing with it.
For your reference, here are direct links to the special use definitions (bold entries are central to this work): Animadversion, Apophasis, Apperception, Awareness & Consciousness, Being, Cause, Cognizance, Continuum, Epiphany, Experience, Feeling, Form, Heuristic, Impersonal, In Sæcula Sæculorum, Inform, Intellect, Intrinsic, Know, Metacognition, Mind, Nonrational, One, Paradigm, Plenum, Potentiate, Precariat, Real, Recognition, Reconfiguration, Resonance, Responsiveness, Sæculum, Secular, Substratum, Understanding, Veridical, Vignette, Wholeness.
The special use and protologism entries are cross-referenced and hyperlinked so that the way in which they participate with each other and contribute to the system that I have developed and am elucidating in this work, is abundantly clear. If you click on a linked word in any of these definitions, you will be taken to that selected definition here in this glossary. Clicking on the back arrow in your browser will return you to your original word's entry.
ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ཕན་ནོ་ཕན་ནོ་སྭཱཧཱ།