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A Natural Inclusional Glossary of Terms
By Alan Rayner
(with assistance of a cartoon by Adam Blatner)
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“For once men have been made to realize the crippling mutilations imposed by an objectivist framework – once the veil of ambiguities covering up these mutilations has been definitely dissolved – many fresh minds will turn to the task of reinterpreting the world as it is, and as it then once more will be seen to be.” From Michael Polanyi (1958) Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. London; Routledge and Kegan Paul. (p. 381)
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A flute with no gap in its boundary cannot make music
Neither can a flute with no boundary
A string with no play in its boundary cannot make music
Neither can a string with no boundary
A face with no mouth cannot sing
Neither can a mouth with no face
A body without legs cannot dance
Neither can legs with no body
A bird without wings cannot fly
Neither can wings with no bird
And so it is that a world with no space in its figures
Or no figures in its space
Is a world without music or song or dance or flight
Or delight
Alan Rayner, 3/11/2010
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In my communications about my emerging understandings of what I have come to call ‘natural inclusionality’, I have continually encountered difficulties in finding appropriate language to express my meanings. The danger of using familiar language is that this will be confused with familiar meanings rooted in the logic or ‘objectivist framework’ of abstract rationality that I hope natural inclusionality will supersede. The danger of using unfamiliar language is that this will appear esoteric, and so undermine my desire to communicate.
I have tried therefore to strike a balance by using familiar language very carefully and subtly so as to retain a sense of openness and fluidity of meaning and to avoid language that gives any impression of rigidity and definitive closure or completeness. But this unfamiliar usage of familiar words also brings dangers of appearing unduly complex, indirect and ambiguous, instead of speaking ‘plain English’. Moreover, rationalistic thinkers will demand to be spoken to in rationalistic language because they will see no good reason for doing otherwise. Quite simply, if you have never questioned rationalistic thought – and indeed may take pride in it – there will be no need to question the kind of language that reinforces it. If, on the other hand, you do, like me, come to question rationalistic thought – and indeed see a way beyond it – there will be a continual need to recognise and revise the language, including your own language, plain or sophisticated, which wittingly or unwittingly reinforces it.
In order to assist anyone interested in why I say things in the way that I do – and why I don’t say them in the way that might be expected from a rationalistic perspective, I have been persuaded of the need to provide the following glossary of inclusional and rationalistic terminology and meanings. In doing so, I am not expecting others to follow my example, but I do want others to understand my meanings and where these are sourced. My usage of language continues to evolve as I learn more, and I am willing to negotiate and change it through dialogue with others.
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Absence of presence: a rationalistic way of perceiving ‘space’ or ‘intangible presence’ as a ‘gap’ or ‘void’ that distances or isolates ‘things’ from one another as discontinuous ‘objects’ and ‘subjects’.
Abstract: based on a partial, imaginary or selective representation, which does not include or take account of all kinds of presence or actual occurrence in Nature.
Abstraction: a partial, imaginary or selective viewing of Nature, usually ignoring intangible presence but also – in some forms of ‘spirituality’ opposed to ‘materialism’ – prone to ignore tangible presence, leading to ‘supernatural’ belief systems.
Abstract rationality: a form of reasoning which assumes discontinuity between material presence and space and so divides or integrates reality into discrete units or portions (wholes and parts; integers and fractions).
Abyss: (rationalistic meaning) bottomless pit, black hole or void from which there is no escape; (inclusional meaning) limitless depth and openness of receptive space everywhere.
Accomplishment: ability; competent development and/or productive application of such an ability through learning.
Achievement: rationalistic perception of bringing about a desirable objective, often in competition with others.
Action: a rationalistic concept based on the imposition of ‘force’ by a material object or subject, resulting in change.
Action learning: indeterminate form of learning from cycles of active-reflective self-enquiry.
Action research: iterative form of self- and social enquiry involving cycles of planning, action, observation and reflection, which – unlike prescriptive research – does not have a determinate outcome. It does not necessarily isolate subject from object, reason from emotion or content from context, and so allows continual learning and reformulation of aims and understanding. It may, however, still be rooted in rationalistic logic and language and ‘begin with a definition’ of ‘initial conditions’. A more explicitly inclusional version of this would be more fluidly premised and described, continually combining imaginative circumspection (open questioning of and receptivity to possibility) with creative focus (reflective consideration of findings and responsiveness to their implications).
Actual: present in Nature as more than a solely mental occurrence.
Adaptation: rationalistic concept in which a subject or object is required to change in order to conform to constraints imposed by another subject or object.
Addition: rationalistic concept in which numbers are combined together as if they are independent entities to generate a sum that is no more and no less than each of the numbers. However, ‘two’, the ‘sum of two ‘ones’ is not the same as two independent ones, as is evident from the fact that (1 x 1) + (1 x 1) does not equal 2 x 2. ‘Two’ behaves as a ‘couple’ whereas ‘One’ behaves as an independent singleness that is literally ‘all alone’. This problem arises because the intangible presence of ‘space’ is discounted from the definition of ‘One’.
Additive: resulting from addition.
Adversarial: oppositional.
Adverse: unfavourable.
Adversity: Circumstance that is life-threatening or life-restricting, due to disruption of living system integrity or scarcity of energy supply.
Agape: deep love; unconditional receptivity to other as an inclusion of self-identity.
Agency: source of local force (rationalistic) or influence (inclusional); capacity to be such a source.
Aggression: self- or group-promoting (rationalistic view) or self- or group-protective (inclusional view) response to perceived adversity, respectively seeking supremacy and sustainability.
Alienation: exclusion of and from what is perceived rationalistically as ‘other’.
Amateur: one whose work is motivated by love; often regarded rationalistically as lacking competence
Ambiguity: capacity to be interpreted in mutually contradictory ways, generally as a result of false dichotomy.
Analysis: focused process of separating a phenomenon out into what are assumed to be its most fundamental ingredients. Where the phenomenon is regarded rationalistically as a complete ‘whole’ object or subject, its ingredients are regarded as ‘parts’. This approach tends to overlook the limitlessness of ‘intangible presence’ as a source of continuity between what is within and without the ‘whole’.
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Analytical: descriptive of analysis and its findings.
Anarchy: state of absolute incoherence assumed rationalistically to exist in the absence of physical or governmental rules or laws.
Anastomosis: fusion of initially distinct flow channels or branches.
Annihilation: rationalistic perception of converting something into nothing.
Antagonism: aggressive opposition to other.
Anti-culture: culture of opposition to other.
Anti-matter: rationalistic perception of energy counter-flow within a massy body as anti-substance.
Antipathy: hateful opposition to other.
A priori: descriptive of deductive reasoning from a pre-set position or general principle to expected findings, liable to overlook unaccounted for possibilities.
A posteriori: descriptive of inductive reasoning with ‘hindsight’ from specific known findings to generic principle, liable to overlook contributions to or possibilities beside the regression line or ‘arrow of time’ from past to present as if these are irrelevant to the main course of history.
Area: rationalistic notion of space confined to a locally defined surface and measurable in structural units.
Arrogance: lofty attitude arising from sense of superiority.
Art: expressive portrayal of sensory and/or imaginative experience.
Atom: (rationalistic view) smallest possible independently existing unit of matter belonging to a particular chemical element, originally conceived as hard and indivisible but nowadays perceived as mostly space populated locally by energetic particles; (inclusional view) smallest coherent dynamic configuration of space identifiable with a specific chemical element.
Atomistic: descriptive of rationalistic theories that seek to divide down or build up natural form into or from discrete units of matter.
Attachment: fastening of one material form to another.
Attunement: mutual shaping or harmonization; resonance.
Authority: rationalistic assumption of superiority.
Autocatalysis: cumulative and synergistic transformation of figure in space and space in figure, as when the flow of a river lessens the resistance of landscape to further flow, or when technological innovation enhances the possibility of further innovation.
Autocatalytic flow: self-enhancing flow.
Autonomy: rationalistically assumed state of independence often associated with belief in individual ‘rights’.
Autopoiesis: holistic notion of ‘self-making’ as an autonomous ‘whole’.
Axiom: a definitive rule; basis for rationalistic logic and argument, which invariably engenders paradox through the underlying assumption that space can be cut by boundary limits.
Axiomatic: descriptive of intransigent beliefs and arguments based on absolute definition.
Bad: descriptive of what is perceived as undesirable, depending strongly upon worldview.
Balance: (rationalistic view) position of stasis between opposing forces; (inclusional view) place of reciprocal correspondence between complementary influences.
Becoming: coming into being – a continuous process in a fluid cosmos.
Being: existing; rationalistic perceptions view this as a fixed tangible ‘state’, inclusional perception views it as a dynamic condition of natural flow form as an energetic configuration of space throughout figure and figure in space, where the only ‘permanent presence’ is intangible.
Belief system: mental structure that supports and directs a particular way of life but is not necessarily consistent with sensory experience or capable of making consistent sense.
Bias: unbalanced view or position.
Binary: based on two alternative possibilities, most fundamentally ‘presence’ or ‘absence’, often represented digitally as ‘1’ or ‘0’.
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Blame: rationalistic perception of responsibility for an undesirable occurrence attributable solely to an individual or group.
Body: (rationalistic view) a discrete massy object or subject, which, in organic form, may be considered dead or alive; (inclusional view) massy flow-form, understood as an energetic configuration of space throughout figure and figure in space.
Boundary: (rationalistic meaning) a discrete limit or discontinuity, which cuts ‘inner’ apart from ‘outer’ and one kind of presence apart from any other kind of presence; (inclusional meaning) an energetic interfacing between one kind of locally distinguishable presence and any other kind of distinguishable presence.
Box: (rationalistic meaning) a completely definable enclosure, usually rectilinear in shape; (inclusional meaning) a distinct locality whose interior is spatially continuous with its exterior.
Branching: (rationalistic meaning) division from one line or trajectory into two or more lines or trajectories; (inclusional meaning) emergence or differentiation of two or more flow-channels from an original channel.
Breathing point: a fluidly configured, space-including or ‘dimension-full’ point; the basic geometric entity in transfigural mathematics, unlike the dimensionless point of conventional Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry.
Building block: an item used for construction, often also used as an atomistic metaphor to denote a fundamental component unit of matter, life, cosmos etc.
Bullying: an intransigent attempt by an individual or group to subjugate another.
Butterfly effect: notion that small differences in initial conditions can produce large differences in long-term behaviour, due to iterative feedback in a non-linear dynamical system: popularly described in terms of the flap of a butterfly’s wings in one location being able to generate a storm in a distant location.
Calculus: a mathematical system invented by Liebniz and Newton that seeks to break down or derive continuous curvature into or from infinitesimal atomistic entities called ‘monads’ or ‘differentials’.
Capitalism: individualistic system of economic governance founded on promotion of individual self-interest at others’ expense, resulting in polarization between rich and poor individuals or groups.
Carbon cycle: the currency of organic life on Earth, whereby energy derived predominantly from sunlight is used to transform carbon dioxide and water into organic compounds and oxygen, which in turn provide the structure, reducing fuel and support for combustion that enables growth, death and decomposition to take place in natural ecosystems.
Catalysis: enhancement of a process by provision of suitably configured receptive space.
Cause: rationalistic perception of an action or source of action that is solely responsible for a phenomenon.
Cell: biologically, the simplest coherent entity capable of sustaining life, either as an individual organism or constituent of a multi-cellular body; often regarded as a ‘box’ of living material.
Certainty: absolute lack of doubt, generally based on rationalistic definition or presupposition.
Chain: set of tangible linkages that connect one locality to another without opening an internal communication path – rationalistically often confused with ‘channel’, as in ‘food chain’, ‘supply chain’ etc.
Chance: (rationalistic view) random possibility, accident or opportunity; (inclusional view) fluid possibility, serendipity or misadventure.
Change: departure from stasis, ultimately through the inclusion of space throughout figure and figure in space.
Channel: elongated figural inclusion of space enabling focused flow of energy.
Chaos theory: deterministic theory of long term unpredictability arising from iterative feedback in nonlinear dynamical systems.
Child: juvenile offspring, in symbolic terms representing ‘Body’ as inclusion of ‘Spirit’/ ‘Father’/radiant energy and ‘Soul’/ ‘Mother’/ receptive space.
Circumspection: taking an all-round view.
Closure: definitive completion or the process of imposing such.
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Co-catalysis: catalysis with another.
Co-creation: creation with another.
Co-creativity: capacity for co-creation.
Co-evolution: evolution with another.
Coherence: capacity to hold together, connectivity.
Collective: descriptive of a group or its functionality.
Collectivism: intransigent belief in the autonomy of a group or groups.
Colonialism: nationalistic, philosophical or racial bullying.
Communication: (rationalistic view) transmission of information from one to other(s) as discrete subject and object(s); (inclusional view) correspondence with other(s) as mutual inclusions of natural energy flow.
Communication channel: a passageway enabling communication between specific localities.
Communion: inclusion of and by common space enabling reciprocal correspondence.
Communism: collectivistic form of economic governance in which all tangible property is supposedly held in common but administered by a central bureaucracy and prone to obviate unique individual identity, spirituality and creativity.
Community: presence of diverse organisms and/or people in common space.
Compassion: common passion; receptive-feeling for and responsiveness to others’ and own needs, arising from empathy.
Compatibility: capacity to integrate harmoniously.
Competence: capability.
Competition: rationalistic perception of mutually or one-sidedly exclusive relationship between discrete individuals or groups of organisms striving for possession of the same resource or position.
Competitiveness: capacity to defeat and so eliminate or subjugate another in competition, by whatever means.
Complementary: synergistic; reciprocally supportive.
Complementation: synergy arising from difference, as in ‘hybrid vigour’ and male-female partnership.
Completeness: absolute containment within a discrete boundary limit – an impossible condition in natural inclusionality.
Complexity theory: rationalistic theory of the emergence of ‘order’ at the ‘edge of chaos’ through ‘self-organization’. Although close in some of its implications to natural inclusionality, it is rooted in definitive logic and mathematical abstraction.
Compliance: submissive obedience.
Compromise: rationalistic view of ‘balance’ and the ‘middle way’, as a ‘trade-off’ between competing sides, which is intrinsically unsatisfactory to both.
Conceit: belief in personal superiority.
Conceptual: arising from imaginative thought, whether abstract or inclusional.
Concrete: building material, widely used rationalistically as a metaphor to denote ‘real’, ‘explicit’, ‘actual’ or ‘tangible’.
Conflict: hostile opposition.
Confluence: convergence of flows into the same locality.
Confrontation: adversarial positioning.
Connectedness: tangible linkage of one figure to another, often regarded rationalistically as a basis for ‘continuity’, ‘unity’, ‘oneness’, ‘wholeness’ or ‘togetherness’.
Connectivity: variable capacity to establish tangible connections between distinct localities; coherence of boundaries as energetic interfacings.
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Consequence: an occurrence that temporally follows another; often regarded rationalistically as a local ‘reaction’ or ‘effect’ arising from a local ‘action’ or ‘cause’
Consistent: free from self-contradiction.
Context: (rationalistic view) environmental surroundings (individualistic) or connectedness with others (collectivistic) as purely tangible presence; (inclusional view) everywhere as an inclusion of somewhere (content) comprising both tangible and intangible presence.
Contextual: arising from context.
Contiguity: adjacency; connectivity.
Continuity: intangible inclusional quality of being without beginning or end; paradoxically treated rationalistically as a purely tangible quality of connectedness.
Contradiction: a statement that asserts the falsehood of another and the truth of itself.
Conversation: verbal co-enquiry, as distinct from debate, instruction or obeisance.
Cooperation: rationalistic perception of autonomous entities working together in a common cause.
Correspondence: dynamic relationship with other(s) through a communication channel.
Counter-flow: reciprocally balancing flow.
Creationism: belief in the literal truth of the story of ‘Genesis’.
Creativity: imaginative and practical capacity to innovate.
Cretan liar paradox: the proposition by an inhabitant of Crete that ‘all Cretans are liars’
Crime: action considered to against the Law laid down by a human legal system.
Criticism: evaluation from a position of actual or potential opposition or scepticism, not open consideration (cf discernment).
Culture: social context.
Currency: circulatory flow, in nature of energy but in human cultures of gifts or money as an abstract token of value, effort or power used in trade and liable to become an instrument of exploitation.
Current: ‘now’; flow.
Dark energy: rationalistic perception of intangible presence, possibly corresponding with ‘extra-space’.
Dark matter: rationalistic perception of intangible presence, possibly corresponding with ‘intra-, inter- and trans-space’.
Darkness: (rationalistic view) absence of light, source of evil; (inclusional view) intangible presence, inclusion of light, source of receptive (loving) influence.
Darwinism: rationalistic belief in evolution by natural selection.
Datum (pl. data): an observation (or set of observations).
Death: (rationalistic view) annihilation of self-identity, termination of life; (inclusional view) passing and reconfiguration of self-identity, opening for renewal of life.
Debate: verbal confrontation of arguments for (‘pro’) or against (‘con’) a proposition, rarely leading to mutual understanding or synergy and commonly resulting in entrenchment of position.
Decomposition: slow-burning, via respiration, of organic compounds produced by living organisms, into carbon dioxide and water.
Deduction: rationalistic derivation of specific instance from general principle or hypothesis; subtraction.
Deductive: descriptive of reasoning by deduction.
Definition: the abstract imposition of finite limits on any subject or object.
Deformability: ability to change or be changed in shape.
Degeneration: loss of figural coherence.
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Democracy: inclusional governance for all, by all, through all, without exception; commonly confused rationalistically with majority (or even minority) rule arising from one person-one vote.
Destiny: abstract perception of ‘the future’ as an ‘end’ in itself, not an opening.
Detachment: (rationalistic view) distancing of self from other, and of subject from object; (inclusional view) removal of attachment.
Determinate: with a fixed boundary limit.
Determinism: fatalistic belief that destiny is entirely defined by present or ‘initial’ conditions.
Deterministic: descriptive of a process that is entirely prescribed by initial conditions, albeit that small differences in the latter can in the long run lead to large differences in outcome (the ‘Butterfly Effect’) due to iterative feedback in non-linear systems.
Deterministic chaos: superficially random, and hence unpredictable behaviour arising from the ‘Butterfly Effect’.
Development: progressive transformation of one form into another, as in the transition from egg to embryo to adult of an animal or plant, but also often applied to economic progression.
Dialectics: rationalistic system of logic and argument based on holding that two mutually contradictory statements are both true.
Dialogue: conversation involving two participants.
Differentiation: (rationalistic view) division into discrete entities or component parts; (inclusional view) individuation into distinctive identities.
Dimensionality: degree of inclusion of space in figure.
Discipline: field of enquiry; imposition of and following of rules.
Discernment: evaluation from a position of honest and open consideration.
Discrete: isolated, discontinuous, definitively bounded – an abstract condition that according to ‘natural inclusionality’is unknown and unknowable in Nature.
Dissonant: out of tune with another, due to being out of phase, neither sufficiently similar nor sufficiently complementary.
Distance: separation between one locality and another, measurable in structural units but rationalistically equated, paradoxically, with ‘space between’.
Distinct: distinguishable but not necessarily discrete.
Division: rationalistic perception of the cutting of a whole into parts that can be re-assembled into the whole, disregarding the fact that space cannot be cut and that boundary surface increases inversely with the size of a locality.
Double helix: geometrical form arising from reciprocal flow and counterflow, as in ‘superchannels’ and the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Driver: rationalistic view of an activating agency or ‘force’.
Dualism: abstract separation of tangible from intangible presence.
Dynamic: incorporating change, ultimately through the energetic configuration of space throughout figure and figure in space.
Dynamic balance: equilibrium between flow and counter-flow.
Ecology: the fundamental study of pattern, process and relationship, at all scales of organization, ultimately from subatomic to cosmic.
Economy: Natural (based on energy flow) or abstract system (usually based on money) for the distribution of currency as a source of sustenance.
Educational: descriptive of a continuous, iterative learning process that enhances personal awareness and practice.
Effect: rationalistic perception of the consequence of an action.
Efficacy: effectiveness in bringing about.
Efficiency: relationship between productive work and waste, with the latter often measured rationalistically as dissipated heat or time.
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Effort: work.
Electromagnetic radiation: radiant energy; mass-less flow-form.
Electron: ‘negatively’ charged particle (rationalistic view) or flow-form (inclusional view) circulating around the nucleus of an atom.
Element: fundamental kind of constituent of Nature, with distinctive qualities and that cannot be separated into other kinds of constituents; classically regarded as Earth, Air, Fire and Water in Greek philosophy, but nowadays identified as chemical elements, distinguishable from one another by the number of protons in their atomic nuclei.
Elimination: rationalistic concept of removal from Nature to ‘somewhere else’, whether the latter is perceived as ‘nothingness’ (as in annihilation) or another realm such as Heaven or Hell.
Elitism: rationalistic notion of the superiority of one or a few over many.
Embodiment: inclusion or manifestation within a body.
Emergence: holistic concept of the coming into being of a presence as a ‘whole’ with properties differing from those of a simple additive mixture of its constituents (‘parts’); in natural inclusionality this is understood in terms of the inclusion of intangible presence (‘space’) within, throughout and beyond all tangible form.
Emotion: condition associated with perception of quality of life and self, manifesting in varied feelings of contentment and discontent.
Empathy: facility to imagine what it is like to be in the place of another.
Emptiness: absence of content.
End: discrete limit or objective.
Energy: (inclusional view) dynamic tangible presence as an inclusion of intangible presence [thought to manifest both as electromagnetic radiation and in bodily flow-form, depending respectively on whether de-localized or localized]; (rationalistic view) the ability of a force to do work [whether manifested in electromagnetic radiation or in the movement of massy bodies, which either have ‘kinetic energy’ by virtue of their motion, or ‘potential energy’, which is stored when work is done against a restraining force, ready to be converted into kinetic energy when the body resumes motion].
Energy flow: circulatory and directional distribution of energy as natural currency.
Energy-matter: an expression that acknowledges the equivalence of matter and energy.
Enmity: hostile opposition to other.
Entitlement: sense of ownership arising from narcissism.
Entity: a ‘thing’, whether perceived rationalistically as a discrete subject or object, or inclusionally, as a flow-form.
Entropy: rationalistic notion of complete disorder or incoherence, arising from the independence of discrete events or units of matter.
Environment: (rationalistic view) what is outside and around an object or subject; (inclusional view) what includes and is included by a flow-form.
Environmental: appertaining to environment.
Envisioning: imagining the depth of receptive presence within self and others.
Epistemology: theory of knowledge – how we come to know or claim to know facts.
Ergonomic: relating to energy.
Err: to depart or wander from a set course, often regarded rationalistically as ‘making a mistake’ but inclusionally leading potentially both to serendipity and misadventure.
Error: (rationalistic view) a mistake; (inclusional view) natural variation or irregularity.
Euclidean geometry: abstract geometry of zero-dimensional (size-less) points, one-dimensional (breadth-less) lines, two-dimensional (depthless) planes and three-dimensional solids (self-contained volumes) that underpins both classical and modern mathematics but is transcended by the infinite space of natural inclusional and transfigural geometry. The central problem of Euclidean geometry is that its space-cutting figures are used to represent fixed tangible structure but can only really represent the intangible presence in the core of tangible flow-form. The same problem applies to the so-called ‘non-Euclidean’, Riemannian and Lobachevskian geometries of curved surfaces.
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Everything: all tangible presence.
Everywhere: limitless space, including its tangible contents.
Evidence: literally ‘what is gathered through the eyes’ but more liberally (and inclusionally) regarded as information or knowledge gained through any kind of sensory experience.
Evil: rationalistic notion of absolute badness, often associated with fear of darkness, but ironically thereby empowering instead of removing hatred.
Evolution: any process of cumulative transformation, whether this is understood in terms of natural inclusion or, as in the rationalistic interpretation of biological systems, Darwinian selection.
Evolutionary: descriptive of any process of cumulative transformation.
Excitable: capable of incorporating energy.
Excluded middle: what is present between one locality and another but is regarded rationalistically as an absence, giving rise to the paradoxical supposition that one thing cannot simultaneously be another thing as a basis for formal definitive logic (where A is not non-A).
Exhabitant: abstract condition in which one is dislocated, by definition, from the space in which it resides.
Existence: natural occurrence.
Existentialism: rationalistic philosophy, emphasizing vitality of personal experience and responsibility, based on the supposition of free agency in a deterministic and meaningless universe.
Experience: sensitive exposure to natural existence.
Expiration: out-breathing or out-flowing; releasing what has been received through inspiration.
Explicate: to out-fold, describe or explain explicitly; descriptive of being out-folded. .
Explicit: manifest.
Expression: manifestation, utterance, outward representation.
Extermination: annihilation.
Extinction: annihilation.
Extrapolation: back or forward projection from known trajectory to unknown past or future condition – liable to be misleading in a changeable context.
Extra-space: intangible presence beyond all tangible presence in natural inclusional geometry.
Fact: what is, or is claimed to be, a truth about reality.
Failure: rationalistic notion of lack of ‘success’.
Faith: belief system, often sustained by adherence to religious or philosophical orthodoxy, custom or tradition.
False dichotomy: rationalistic imposition of discontinuity between mutually inclusive occurrences, most fundamentally between tangible and intangible presence.
Falsehood: lack of truth.
Falsifiability: definitive capability of being shown to be without truth.
Fascism: political ideology of collective, usually nationalistic supremacy, intolerant of diversity and enforced by dictatorship
Fatalism: belief in fate – pre-ordained future.
Father: male parent, in symbolic terms representing radiant energy or ‘Spirit’.
Fault: irregularity, split, error or mistake that rationalistically may be held potentially or actually fully responsible for an undesirable occurrence.
Favourable: with fortunate implications.
Feedback: iterative re-input of output from a dynamic system.
Feeling: sensing tangible and intangible presence through resistance or lack of resistance to an excitable surface; having an emotional response.
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Female: primarily receptive gender.
Feminine: quality of being female.
Field: rationalistic notion of energized or structured space.
Figural: appertaining to ‘figure’.
Figure: (rationalistic meaning) any discrete numerical entity or physical form; (inclusional meaning) any distinguishable tangible locality.
Filament: elongated tangible form.
Finite: with a discrete limit.
Fitness: vitality; in Darwinian evolutionary theory quantified in terms of reproductive output.
Fitting: attuned with situation.
Flat: descriptive of a plane surface, absolutely lacking curvature or irregularity – unknown in Nature.
Flourishing: thriving.
Flow: continuous figural movement or transformation, often regarded rationalistically as the translocation of tangible entities through space instead of as the inclusional permeation of form by space.
Flow-form: form arising as an inclusion of natural energy flow.
Flow-length: inclusional expansion of ‘wavelength’, from a repetitive interval along a line to a repetitive interval along a channel.
Fluidity: capacity for continuous transformation.
Focal point or Focus: (rationalistic view) a centre of optical convergence or divergence; (inclusional view) a centre of spatial influence or zeroid.
Focussing: process of concentrating in a particular direction or on a particular locality, providing discernment, but needing to be combined with intuitive circumspection to sustain true impartiality and creativity; associated with human left brain hemisphere.
Force: rationalistic concept of the physical quantity that ‘does work’ either by changing the motion of a body, by imparting acceleration to it, or by deforming the body.
Form: any distinguishable tangible locality and its shape.
Formalism: authoritarian imposition of and adherence to abstract a priori rules that Nature and people are expected to follow, instead of recognising and following natural principles – a problem especially associated with definitive philosophical, legalistic and mathematical logic.
Foundation: underlying support, knowledge or premise.
Fractal geometry: geometry of irregular structures which appear ‘self-similar’ at different scales of magnification; their degree of irregularity (which arises from the degree of inclusion of space within them) is quantified in terms of frac(tion)al dimensions, between integral values of 0, 1, 2 and 3 of classical Euclidean geometry, but remains defined by these latter.
Fraction: rationalistic notion of a specific amount as ‘part of a whole’.
Fragment: rationalistic notion of a ‘piece of a whole’.
Framework: definitive structure.
Framing: (rationalistic view) imposing closure; (inclusional view) fluidly bounding or dynamic principle.
Free agency: independence, or an active entity assumed rationalistically to be independent.
Freedom: (rationalistic view) independence from influence of other(s), often conflated with ‘liberty’, regarded as a ‘property’, ‘possession’ or ‘right’ of entities perceived as discrete Newtonian bodies; (inclusional view) quality of receptive space that provides possibility for local existence and expression of energetic form.
Frequency: rationalistic concept of the number of occurrences in a discrete unit of space or time.
Function: role, activity or purpose; mathematical quantity determining the value of another quantity.
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Fundamentalism: intransigent belief system.
Future: (rationalistic view) what comes after and is divided from ‘past’ by ‘present’; (inclusional view) what continually emerges from ‘past’ via ‘present’.
Gap: ‘space between’ one figural locality and another, viewed rationalistically as measurable ‘distance’ but inclusionally as continuous with ‘space within’ and ‘space beyond’, a receptive intangible presence vital for the very possibility of natural energy flow.
Gene: (rationalistic view) a discrete unit of heritable information, in molecular terms a sequence of nucleic acid translatable directly or indirectly into protein; (inclusional view) a replicable figural inclusion of space vital to the continuity of organic life through its co-creative relationship with protein.
Generation: (rationalistic view) production or reproduction or its output from one discrete population category to the next, sometimes divided into young, middle-aged and elder; (inclusional view) process of continual innovation or renewal.
Genetic determinism: rationalistic belief that an organism’s phenotype is entirely prescribed by its genes and subject only the moderating influence of environmental variables.
Genotype: genetic composition.
Geometry: mathematics of shape and form.
Gift-flow: inclusional economic and ergonomic principle arising from viewing life as a gift to be received, cared for and passed on.
Global: of the world, often confusingly contrasted with ‘local’, forgetting that the world is a local inclusion of the limitless pool of the cosmos.
Globalization: hegemonic international spread of an idea, economic system and/or way of life.
Goal: rationalistic objective.
Gödel’s theorem: proof, in the 1930s, that conventional mathematical proofs are self-referential and so only provable in terms of their own axiomatic definition.
Good: descriptive of what is perceived as desirable, depending strongly upon worldview.
Gradient: distribution from ‘high’ to ‘low’ or ‘thick’ to ‘thin’, ultimately of tangible towards and around intangible presence.
Gravity: (rationalistic view) attractive force exerted by a massy body; (inclusional view) acquisitive influence of bodily flow-form arising from the gradient from beyond towards its centre of receptive space.
Group: rationalistic concept of a collective unit.
Habitat: inhabited place.
Harmonization: bringing into harmony.
Harmony: mutual attunement, without dissonance.
Hate: fearful opposition.
Hegemonic: domineering, monopolizing.
Helix: spiral
Hierarchy: ascending order of importance or power.
Hole: intangible presence configured by tangible presence.
Holeyness: pervasion by intangible presence.
Holism: rationalistic theory that the fundamental principle of the universe is the creation of ‘wholes’, i.e. complete and self-contained systems from the atom and the cell by evolution to the most complex forms of life and mind.
A fundamental underlying principle of holism, following Aristotle, is that these wholes are more than the sum of their parts. In recent years this has been related to the ‘phenomenon’ of irreducible emergence, whereby, for example ‘water’ behaves differently from ‘hydrogen’ and ‘oxygen’ alone. In conventional mathematics, emergence results in ‘non-linearity’ whenever a number other than 1 is cumulatively raised to a power other than 1 (cf. exponential growth, for example). Correspondingly, 2 squared is not the same as 1 squared plus 1 squared (breaking what is known as the linear law of superposition, which Newton’s fully reversible laws of motion are based upon). In natural inclusionality, however, being more than the sum of one’s parts is due to the inclusion of infinite intangible presence (space) throughout and beyond local tangible presence: ‘one’ is not ‘alone’ (all one as an entirety or absolute independent singleness) and ‘two’ is a couple pooled together as inclusions of space.
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Holism is hence, like reductionism, based on absolute definition of tangible presence independently from space. It is an artefact of absolute, axiomatic definition. Axiomatic definition can lead to paradoxical (dialectical) doublethink of the kind exposed by the Cretan liar paradox and famously explored mathematically by Kurt Godel in the 1930s. Holistic thinkers are correspondingly prone to make unqualified self-contradictory or dialectic propositions, along the lines of ‘this is a whole but it is not a whole’ or ‘this is many and one’.
Some expressions of holism nonetheless come very close to natural inclusionality, by invoking or implying a crucial role for ‘spiritual’ or ‘intangible’ presence. In retaining the rationalistic notion of ‘completeness’, however, they stall at the ‘threshold’ of the ‘space barrier’, where they become self-contradictory and may even go so far as to apply this notion to infinite intangible presence whilst discounting the influence of tangible presence.
Humility: sense of individual ‘self’ as ‘a part of something larger’ (rationalistic view) or ‘inclusion of somewhere larger’ (inclusional view) and so lacking independent authority.
Hybrid vigour (also known as heterosis): enhanced vigour of hybrids compared with pure-bred parents.
Hypothesis: axiomatic proposition in the form of a general statement about reality that can be tested for its consistency with evidence.
‘I’: personal reference to ‘self’ as an individual subject (rationalistic view) or local identity (inclusional view).
Idealism: abstract perfectionism.
Identity: distinguishable presence.
Imaginal: arising through poetic imagination.
Imagination: capacity to picture possibilities in the mind.
Immaterial: (rationalistic view) of no account, nothing; (inclusional view) spatial.
Impact: rationalistic view of having influence.
Impartiality: comprehensive consideration, from all possible points of view, rationalistically confused with objectivity.
Implicate: to in-fold or involve, describe or suggest implicitly.
Implication: in-folding or involvement.
Implicit: tacit.
Imposition: bullying, definitive framing, regardless of true situation.
Improvisation: openly creative exploration from a given foundation.
Including middle: what incorporates distinctive occurrences or views within each other’s mutual influence.
Inclusion: incorporation of and/or by another.
Inclusional: descriptive of any form of reasoning based on inclusionality.
Inclusionality: a term introduced by Alan Rayner and Ted Lumley, in conversation with others, intended to distinguish a form of reasoning that includes intangible presence and so is more comprehensive, comprehensible and realistic than abstract rationality. Eventually it became necessary for Alan Rayner to distinguish his understanding of inclusionality as ‘natural inclusionality’, which takes account of local influence and identity, from Ted Lumley’s understanding, which considers only nonlocal influence and regards even fluid locality as illusory.
Inclusiveness: pluralistic accommodation of diverse views or abilities irrespective of their compatibility, competence, consistency or coherence.
Incompatibility: incapacity to integrate harmoniously, due to insufficient similarity or difference (allowing complementation).
Inconsistent: contradictory.
Incorporation: embodiment.
Incorrect: not right, inaccurate.
Independence: rationalistic notion of absolute freedom from the influence of others, associated with the notion of ‘one’ as a complete entity in itself without neighbourhood through lacking spatial continuity between its inner world and surroundings. An impossible condition according to natural inclusionality, although energetic independence can be approached through the fixing and sealing of figural boundaries in frozen or dormant forms.
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Indeterminate: (rationalistic view) random, developmentally unspecified; (inclusional view) dynamically bounded, developmentally fluid.
Indigenous wisdom: the sense of what it means to be an inhabitant of Nature.
Individual: (rationalistic view) discrete local entity; (inclusional view) distinct local identity.
Individualism: intransigent belief in the autonomy of individuals.
Individuation: process of becoming a unique, but not necessarily autonomous local identity, arising inclusionally through the fluid formation of figural boundaries.
Induction: (rationalistic view) derivation of general principle or hypothesis from specific instance or instances; (inclusional view) gathering into receptive space.
Inductive: descriptive of a process of induction.
Inference: logical implication.
Inferiority: rationalistic perception of lower worth or status.
Infinitesimal: descriptive of an abstract, infinitely small figure that cannot be assigned a finite numerical quantity.
Infinite: without limit and so beyond quantitative assignment; recognised inclusionally to be a quality of space.
Infinity: infinite and hence intangible presence, nonetheless treated rationalistically and paradoxically as a numerical quantity.
Influence: effect arising from inflow of energy to receptive space
Information: (rationalistic view) discrete facts; (inclusional view) tangible presence.
Information theory: rationalistic theory of transfer of discrete units of knowledge from a discrete transmitter to a discrete receiver with minimal dissipation as noise.
Inhabitant: In-dweller.
Inorganic: lacking reduced forms of carbon.
Input: addition from outside to inside.
I-opening: loosening of self-definition, allowing receptivity to other(s).
Insight: revelatory view; imaginative seeing through superficial appearance.
Inspiration: in-breathing; enlivening inflow.
Intangible: non-resistive; incapable of being detected by an excitable surface.
Intangible presence: space, that limitless depth/openness/slipperiness, which permeates everywhere and lacks any resistance to movement. [This presence is ‘transfigural’ (a term introduced by the mathematician, Lere Shakunle) because it cannot be excluded from tangible (figural) form at any scale. When figural form ‘appears’ to move through space, what is actually happening, in relative terms, is space permeating through form. Form inhabits the limitless pool of space, but this pool doesn’t move, either as a whole or in part, because it cannot be defined bodily, it can only be bodily configured.]
Integer: whole number.
Integration: (rationalistic view) summation of parts into a whole; (inclusional view) figural coalescence.
Intellectual: (one) capable of reasoning.
Intelligent design: rationalistic perception of the need for some executive force to shape the cosmos, based on acknowledgement of the impossibility of complex form, including living organisms, arising by random chance – but overlooking the possibilities of co-creative interplay between tangible and intangible presence as distinct but mutually inclusive identities.
Intensity of space: degree of figural enfolding of space.
Interaction: rationalistic notion of combined action and reaction of contiguous entities.
Interconnectedness: tangible linkage of one to another.
Interdependence: a universal condition, according to natural inclusionality, of being variably open to one another’s mutual energetic and receptive influence, due to the continuity of space through figural boundaries; but attributed rationalistically and holistically to interconnectedeness.
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Interference: compatible or incompatible augmentation or damping of convergent flow forms.
Interplay: co-creative exploration of possibilities.
Interrelationship: relationship of one with another.
Inter-space: space between distinct but not necessarily discrete figural localities in natural inclusional and transfigural geometries..
Intransigence: non-receptivity to other, ultimately by rationalistically denying the continuity of space through objective and subjective boundaries.
Intra-space: space within a figural locality in natural inclusional and transfigural geometries.
Intuition: form of awareness arising from circumspection, but needing to be combined with focus to provide affirmation and discernment; associated with human right brain hemisphere.
Intuitive: descriptive of awareness arising from circumspection.
Involution: turning from outside to inside; the radical involution of natural inclusionality is the bringing of the intangible presence of zero, as a local ‘point’ of space, from outside to inside figural form, providing a receptive centre for energy to circulate around, but not reach. Natural form is thereby understood to comprise energetically surfaced cavities of space instead of (as in atomism) local points of mass surrounded by space
Involvement: mutual relationship.
Irregularity: lack of uniformity or repetitiveness, and associated unpredictability.
Iteration: repetition of a process by successively using the out put of a dynamic system as input.
Iterative: descriptive of a process of iteration.
Justice: treatment in accordance with behaviour and circumstance.
Juxtaposition: placement side by side.
Kinship: sharing origin.
Knowing: having knowledge.
Knowledge: awareness of facts.
Labyrinth: complex system of tunnels.
Language: symbolic verbal, visual or auditory expression enabling communication; associated primarily with left human brain hemisphere in the case of verbal expression.
Learning: an evolutionary process that enables us to develop the abilities necessary to sustain our lives in a complex, changing world.
Length: abstract measure of distance along a Euclidean line.
Leverage: mechanistic notion of being able to move an object by application of force to a point from a distance.
Liberty: condition of being unburdened by oppression.
Life: (rationalistic view) possession of an organism prior to its death, associated with certain vital functions; (inclusional view) energy, either in general or specifically that flows within, throughout, into and out from an organism.
Life-style: way of finding, taking in, conserving and redistributing energy through variably permeable, deformable and connective boundaries of a living system.
Light: electromagnetic radiation – often restrictively applied only to that which is visible to the human eye.
Linkage: linear co-occurrence.
Line: elongated form, treated in abstract geometry as breadth-less and hence only capable of having intangible presence but used to represent tangible structure.
Linear: derived from or integrated within one or more straight lines and hence associating additively.
Linearity: condition of being linear.
Living: having life.
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Living theory: improvisational and iterative educational theory that avoids objective framing by including a vital role for self as an inhabitant of social formations.
Lobachevskian geometry: hyperbolic geometry of curved surfaces in which for any P not lying on a line L, there are at least two lines that can be drawn through P parallel to L.
Local: identifiable as somewhere unique, but not necessarily permanently isolated from others; a condition associated with tangible presence.
Locality: somewhere unique; condition of being local.
Localization: process of becoming somewhere distinct, but not necessarily discrete.
Logic: method of reasoning, whether realistic or abstract.
Love: intangible receptive influence and the tangible responses this induces.
Male: primarily responsive gender.
Manifestation: expression in tangible form.
Mass: rationalistic measure of the amount of matter in a body, which is also a measure of its linear inertia or extent to which it resists acceleration when subjected to a ‘force’.
Material: matter.
Materialism: an abstract worldview, which ignores intangible presence.
Mathematics, Conventional: all forms of mathematics founded upon rationalistic assumptions.
Mathematics, Transfigural: a form of mathematics introduced in 1985 by Lere Shakunle, based on transfigural assumptions.
Matter: rationalistic perception of energy flow within a massy body as ‘substance’.
Means: method of bringing about an objective.
Measurement: quantification in discrete units.
Mechanism: tangible means of bringing about an occurrence.
Mechanistic: exclusively concerned with tangible function, without consideration of role of intangible presence.
Mental: (rationalistic view) present in mind alone, not tangible body, but co-extensive with the brain; (inclusional view) present in mind as an inclusion of tangible body as an inclusion of intangible presence.
Metaphysical: descriptive of mental or conceptual occurrence.
Metaphysicality: mental imagery.
Metaphysics: philosophical consideration of the fundamental nature of reality.
Method: practical means of accomplishment.
Methodology: philosophy of method.
Middle way: (rationalistic view) path of compromise; (inclusional view) path of dynamic balance of each in the influence of the other.
Mind: imaginative presence.
Misadventure: unfortunate outcome of error.
Mistake: incorrect thought or behaviour, often with what is perceived as a bad outcome or ‘failure’; rationalistically confused with ‘error’.
Molecule: a distinctive association of atoms, arising through chemical bonding.
Monism: abstract removal or conflation of intangible presence from or with tangible presence, so as to achieve ‘unity’.
Mother: female parent, in symbolic terms representing receptive space or ‘Soul’.
Multicellular: comprising many cells.
Multicultural: comprising diverse cultures, but not necessarily in harmonious relationship.
Multiplication: folding into many; arithmetically meaning keeping a discrete number the same (multiplying it by 1) or adding it to itself as many times as given by another number.
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Mysticism: belief or awareness that there is more to reality than purely tangible presence; viewed dismissively by rationalistic thought.
Narcissism: rationalistic sense of individual or group ‘self’ as an independent entity, entitled to special privileges and inalienable ‘rights’.
Narcissistic injury: any perceived affront to narcissistic entitlement.
Narcissistic rage: anger arising from narcissistic injury.
Nationalism: State narcissism.
Natural: present in Nature.
Natural co-creation: synergistic interplay of tangible and intangible presence.
Natural communion: the dynamic continuity of all Nature in receptive spatial context.
Natural inclusion: an evolutionary process of co-creative, fluid dynamic transformation of all through all in receptive spatial context.
Natural inclusional geometry: fluid geometry in which space and boundaries are regarded as mutually inclusive sources of continuity and dynamic distinction with variable connectivity, not mutually exclusive sources of discontinuity and discrete definition, as in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries.
Natural inclusionality: a fundamental quality of Nature and way of reasoning in which all form is distinguishable but not definable as variably viscous flow-form, an energetic inclusion of space throughout figure and figure in space.
Natural inclusional: descriptive of any form of reasoning based on natural inclusionality.
‘Natural’ selection: rationalistic perception of the differential survival of one form of life as opposed to another, originally described by Charles Darwin as ‘the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life’ and often alluded to, following Herbert Spencer, as ‘the survival of the fittest’.
Nature: (inclusional view) everywhere, without structural limit; (rationalistic view) somewhere or something defined as separate from human or environmental or godly presence.
Nature-nurture debate: rationalistic dispute about relative roles of genes (‘nature’) and environment (‘nurture’) in the development of ‘phenotype’ (outward form and behaviour of an organism).
Needfulness: fundamental condition of life associated with spatial receptivity, acknowledgement of which is a source of compassion for self and other, denial of which is a source of intransigence and resentment; cf autonomy.
Neediness: rationalistic notion of unilateral dependence upon others, interpreted as a ‘deficit’ or ‘negativity’.
Needlessness: condition of being dispensable or of not having need(s).
Needs: requirements for sustaining life; often rationalistically regarded as ‘deficiencies’, leading to demands for what are perceived as ‘rights’.
Negative: (rationalistic view) subtractive, detrimental, retrogressive; (inclusional view) receptive, accepting, vital to circulatory flow.
Neighbourhood: (rationalistic view) vicinity around an individual or location occupied by a group of individuals; (inclusional view) non-local presence (space) as an inclusion of local individual and group identity.
Neo-Darwinism: rationalistic view of genes and their mutations as ultimate units of selection, giving rise to the definition of biological evolution as a change in gene frequency and the notion of ‘selfish genes’.
Neoteny: persistence of juvenile characteristics in adulthood – believed to contribute to radical evolutionary transformation, including the emergence of vertebrates from sea squirts, monocotyledons (‘narrrow-leaved plants’) from dicotyledons (‘broad-leaved plants’) and humans from apes.
Nestedness: inclusion of smaller figures within larger figures.
Network: branched, internally connective system, often treated rationalistically as a ‘web’ of material or energetic ‘threads’, but inclusionally understood more fluidly as a system of channels enabling enhanced communication and redistribution of energy via internal ‘intra-space’.
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Neutral: neither positive nor negative.
Nihilism: self-destructive rationalistic philosophy denying all meaning and value and glorifying absence of presence.
Non-acceptance: condition of being unable to accept, whilst not absolutely opposing or rejecting a proposal or stance – as in the relationship between natural inclusionality and abstract rationality, where the former is unable to accept the definitive opposition of the latter.
Non-linear: (rationalistic view) departing from simple proportionality due to iterative feedback; (inclusional view) incorporating intangible presence and so not restricted to completely definable patterns or trajectories.
Non-local: everywhere, without limit.
Non-locality: condition of being without limit, hence continuous.
Nothing: rationalistic notion of no presence.
Nothingness: space regarded rationalistically as an absence of presence, emptiness, void, abyss.
No-thingness: space regarded as intangible presence.
Nurture: what provides care and sustenance; rationalistically often treated as environmental factors as distinct from genetic composition (described as ‘nature’).
Object: rationalistic perception of an entity viewed from out