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This website is dedicated to the free publication of a philosophical enquiry concerning ontology and epistemology.
A work initially written over a decade past is being systematically rewritten by the author in hopes of improved clarity and cohesion of arguments. The completed rewrite is anticipated to be approximately 450,000 words (roughly, 1,500 pages), and will likely take well over a decade to produce. Until the rewrite’s completion and release in paperback form, first drafts of revised chapters will be uploaded onto this site, making them freely available to anyone who might be interested.
All contents of this website are offered as public domain under the CC-0 license. The reader—just as much as the author—thereby has the right to reproduce and modify the contents uploaded onto this website in any way the reader sees fit.
Uploaded revisions will be denoted with a bullet (•) in the table of contents. Sections not yet uploaded are provisionally listed for reference and are subject to substantial change.
If you have criticisms of what's been uploaded and would like to share these with the author, if you have questions, or if you would otherwise like to be informed of newly uploaded chapters via email, please contact me—Michael W Moiceanu, the author of this work—at mwmenquiry@gmail.com.
Due to time constraints and the increased ease of administration, for the time being this MediaWiki-based website is closed to public modification
— Update (Jan. 9, 2023):
I have reinstalled MediaWiki on this website. In part, the intent was to have longer changers be easier to read through and to navigate.
All contents on the previous installation of the website are now uploaded.
I am currently working on Chapter 12.
Thank you for your continued interest.
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 Determinacy
• Chapter 9: Three Metaphysical Classifications for Causes
• Chapter 10: The Reality of a Causally Semideterminate World
• Chapter 11: Validating Our Free Will
Chapter 12: Volition’s Basic Determinants, Part I—Intentions
Chapter 13: Volition’s Basic Determinants, Part II—The Prototelos
Chapter 14: Volition’s Basic Determinants, Part III—Teleions
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 Supernal
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 Euteleion which Is
Chapter 43: The Apeiroson
Chapter 44: The Tyrannon
Chapter 45: The Preservon
Chapter 46: The Nihilon
Chapter 47: The Ineuteleion
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 Equisubjective Present Moment
Chapter 61: Intra-, Inter-, and Equi-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