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This website is dedicated to the free publication of a philosophical enquiry concerning ontology and epistemology.
The completion of the work is anticipated to take years, if not not decades. Sections will be uploaded as their revision becomes finalized—and will be denoted with a bullet (•) in the table of contents. Sections not yet uploaded are provisionally listed for reference, and are subject to change. All contents are offered as public domain under the CC-0 license.
If you have questions or would like to be informed of newly uploaded chapters via email, please contact me—Michael W Moiceanu—at MWM@anenquiry.info.
Update (Nov. 17, 2020): Firstly, because this work builds on itself incrementally, Parts 1 and 2 are crucial to the conclusions that are to be obtained in Part 3. In a desire to have as robust a foundation as possible to Part 3, I intend to revisit and—where needed—revise what has already been uploaded. If changes will be made to that already uploaded, it will not be to the philosophical content but only to the expression of this content.
Secondly, due to the—maybe obvious—difficulty in establishing an eidem’s freewill with epistemic certainty, I would like to upload Part 3 after I have completed it in full, thereby facilitating an optimal cohesion of arguments and their expression. Given current time constraints, I estimate that so doing will minimally take a year to accomplish. Please revisit in 2022 for updates. Thank you for visiting and, where granted, your continued patronage.
An Enquiry into the Nature of Being
Michael W Moiceanu (MWMoiceanu)
• Preface
Volume One: Certainty, Awareness, Will, Mind, and Selfhood
• Part I: Foundational Principles
• Chapter 1: Demarcating Certainty, Uncertainty, and Doubt
• Chapter 2: The Cohort of All Those Concerned
• Chapter 3: Validating The Law of Non-contradiction
• Part 2: Awareness
• Chapter 4: The Reality of the Eidem
• Chapter 5: Our Four Modes of Awareness
• Chapter 6: Our Three Strata of Awareness as Eidems
• Chapter 7: Demarcating Consciousness
Part 3: Causation, Volition, and its Determinants
Chapter 8: Concerning Determinants
Chapter 9: Conceivable Types of Causes
Chapter 10: Three Mutually Exclusive Types of Causal Reality
Chapter 11: Validating Freewill
Chapter 12: Volition’s Basic Determinants, Part I
Chapter 13: Volition’s Basic Determinants, Part II
Chapter 14: Volitional Happiness and Volitional Suffering
Chapter 15: Of Uncertainty and Choice
Part 4: Negating the Logical Possibility of Solipsism
Chapter 16: An Eidem’s Discernment of its Body
Chapter 17: Requirements for Effect Production
Chapter 18: The Impossibility of Being the Sole Eidem in Existence
Part 5: Mind
Chapter 19: An Eidem-Inclusive Bundle Theory of Mind
Chapter 20: Enactive, Inherent, and Disjoined Volitions
Chapter 21: Concerning Thought
Chapter 22: Concerning Memory
Chapter 23: Concerning Forethought
Chapter 24: Concerning Expectations
Chapter 25: Concerning Selfhood
Chapter 26: Concerning Self-Awareness
Chapter 27: Concerning the Animus and the Anima
Chapter 28: Happiness and Suffering Revisited
Volume Two: Forms, Objectivity, Compatibilism, Truth, and Value
Part 8: Form Determinacy
Chapter 29: Formal Interdeterminacy
Chapter 30: Four Jointly Exhaustive Possibilities of Form
Chapter 31: Of Relations between Body and Mind
Part 9: Deriving the Metaphysics of Objectivity
Chapter 32: Concurrences of Eidems
Chapter 33: Four Jointly Exhaustive Types of Reality
Chapter 34: Concerning the Two Types of Objective Reality
Chapter 35: Retroactive Compatibilism
Chapter 36: Progressive Uniformitarianism
Chapter 37: Concerning the Paranatural
Part 10: Concerning Truth and Belief
Chapter 38: Four Truth Types
Chapter 39: Of Trust and Belief
Chapter 40: Enactive, Learned, and Innate Trust
Part 11: Value Theory
Chapter 41: The Identity Preservation Drive
Chapter 42: Deriving What Should be from that Endstate Scenario which Is
Chapter 43: The Selflessness Endstate
Chapter 44: The Supremacy Endstate
Chapter 45: The Stasis Endstate
Chapter 46: The Nonbeing Endstate
Chapter 47: The Null Endstate
Chapter 48: Compound Teloi and Teloi Concessions
Chapter 49: Competition between Teloi
Volume Three: Reasoning, Epistemology, Spacetime, Aesthetics, and Science
Part 12: Reasoning
Chapter 50: Logical Identity, Noncontradiction, and the Excluded Middle
Chapter 51: Of Form and Causal Information
Chapter 52: Of Reasoning and Justification
Chapter 53: Of Pre-Socratic Logos and the Notion of Karma
Chapter 54: Abductions, Inductions, and Deductions
Chapter 55: Of Numbers and Mathematics
Part 13: Epistemology
Chapter 56: Justification
Chapter 57: Knowledge
Chapter 58: Understanding
Part 14: Spacetime
Chapter 59: The Intrasubjective Present Moment
Chapter 60: The Diasubjective Present Moment
Chapter 61: Intra-, Inter-, and Dia-syncretic Spacetime
Part 15: Aesthetics
Chapter 62: Biological Fairness
Chapter 63: Psychological Fairness
Chapter 64: Conceptual Fairness
Part 16: Science
Chapter 65: The Scientific Method
Chapter 66: Natural Selection
Chapter 67: On the Emergence of Life from Nonlife
Chapter 68: Concerning the Beginning and End of the Universe