GLOSSARY

In this text there are some common words which I have used with special shades or limitations of meaning. These words are listed and their meanings are described in this glossary.

Action is used in this text in the rather narrow sense of physical movements of the body which are intended to influence what is called the external world. Part of your current action is reading these words.

Agents are personifications of thought events; I have personified them because they seem to represent aspects of the self of subjective experience. How would the agents react to reading these words?

• Director directs traffic in the flux of thought. Did Director allow you to read these words?
• Evaluator considers the evidence and forms the value which Director uses to direct from. Why did Evaluator give Director cause to allow you to read these words?
• Expander spreads out thought so that more possibilities are opened. What does Expander make of your experience in reading these words?
• Experiencer is the neck of self. Does Experiencer breathe in these words?
• Hearer is that part of awareness which experiences the words. Does Hearer hear these words as or after you read them?
• Projector is that by which thoughts are thought. How did reading these words stimulate Projector?
• Speaker is the source of words. What was Speaker saying while and just after you were reading these words?
• Watcher is the little animal inside, watching. Look up, Watcher, and see these words!
• Word is the unitary congruence of Hearer and Speaker. In your mind, what was the experience of reading these words upon Word?

Assent means to agree or accept in one's own mind. I assent that I am writing these words.

Awareness is the fundamental concept which illuminates this text; it is the name chosen for the essence of subjective experience. Writing these words is part of my awareness.

The base of a void set, which we may sometimes refer to as the base of the void (in being), is the set of all forms which have in fact entered into being from that void.

Being is defined as the content of awareness; it is what subjective experience experiences. These words come into being when I think them and again when you read them.

Consciousness is used herein in the rather general sense of subjective experience where we do not necessarily specify it further. Your consciousness is experiencing, or has experienced, reading these words.

Distinguish means to actually explicitly mention something, or more generally for some particular to come into being; for example: 2.588389587777723474589 is distinguished because it has been written, whereas 78956.9950004569832752 was probably not distinguished until I recently keyed it into this text. These words are distinguished when I write them.

Distinction is used to denote the intention of a boundary and the divergence of meanings separated by the boundary. Does reading these words induce the reader to draw a significant distinction between before and after?

Mind has several usages which change as the text progresses; early in the text mind is almost synonymous with subjective experience or consciousness, later mind is used to indicate a focused set of thoughts and before we have finished mind is given a technical definition as a subset of the set of sets of thoughts. The set of thoughts which occurs when you read these words is an element of mind.

Objective. Self existent. According to the principle of the objective subjective, your subjective experience when you read these words is objective.

Objective Subjective is used to denote the self existent experience of a consciousness awareness. The fact of your experience while reading these words is part of the objective subjective.

The potentia of a void set, or of a void (in being) is the set of all forms in the void set except the base.

Priority is a logical category generalized from causation and order to fit the realities of subjective experience. Your experience in reading these words is prior to you than my experience in writing these words.

A refinement of a void set is a transformation of that void which enlarges the void set.

Reflection is used to denote an aspect of consciousness which is aware of another aspect of consciousness; although where I write 'another' just above I do not mean necessarily different; reflection can reflect reflection. Are you reflecting upon yourself reading these words?

Subjective Existing in a person's experience and part of that experience. Your experience while reading these words is objectively subjective.

Subjective experience is what is. While you are reading these words, this is part of your subjective experience.

Subjective Objective describes the subjective belief that there is an objective reality external to and prior to subjective experience. According to the subjective objective, these words have a meaning external to and prior to your subjective experience of reading them.

Teleos, stolen from Greek, intends intention; in this text teleos is a part of thought-to. It was your teleos to read these words.

Thought is the flux of subjective experience, the progression of mental events, the flow of awareness. These words are now influencing your thought.

Thoughts are specified sections of thought. (In English the singular word for thoughts is confused with, or the same word with, the flux of thought.) Would it be more accurate to write that each of these words occasioned thoughts when read or that this whole sentence induces thoughts?

Thought-from insinuates a predecessor; thought-from is deprecated in this text. Neither you nor I really know where these words were thought-from.

Thought-to is an aspect of present thought which intends a direction; thought-to is approved in this text. Where are you thought-to as you read these words?

Time is somehow deduced from the experience that change is part of the flux of thought; I suspect that time is a figment of our limited imaginations. Are you reading these words in present, past, or future time?

Unitary awareness is what seems to occur before distinctions are drawn. Unitary awareness is prior to these words.

The void set of a void in being is the set of all forms which may enter into being from that void.

Frederick Joseph Staley