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.

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— Update (April 17, 2025):

The currently pivotal Chapter 17—which aims to nullify the possibility of metaphysical solipsism with unfalsified certainty, this being an epistemic certainty required to derive, for one example, the reality of an objective world—is currently giving me unanticipated problems: To address the topic of solipsism from all conceivable vantages, I’ve found it best to here introduce general issues related to the supernatural (including that of the disparate spiritual realities which diverse religions world over maintain)—this being a complex enough subject I had anticipated addressing only in Volume II of this work.

Now that I’m introducing the subject matter here—and this prior to the formal arguments for an objective, physical, external world which await to be provided in Volume II—I find myself in need of deliberating a great deal on how much of the subject matter to currently expound upon. A considerable amount of analysis will be needed for clarity and yet, at the same time—in part because this chapter only intends the singular unfalsified certainty of metaphysical solipsism’s impossibility, and in equal part because in-depth analysis of the supernatural is best only provided once an understanding of how the objective world is derivable from established unfalsified certainties (a good number of which have yet to be evidenced)—going into too much detail at this point of the work regarding the supernatural will easily become both confusing and vacuous, the latter due to consisting of currently unsubstantiated claims.

Otherwise, the unfalsified-certainty-intending formal arguments against the possibility of solipsism—which include arguments taking into account the possibility of the waking world being of itself a dream—are so far progressing well. This despite the position of metaphysical solipsism being up to now considered unfalsifiable.

However, in substantial part due to the just addressed hitch regarding the issue of the supernatural, I’m now guesstimating that I will upload the rest of this work’s Part 4 only after a few more months pass by.

An Enquiry into the Nature of Being

Michael W Moiceanu (MWMoiceanu)

michael@anenquiry.info

• Preface

• Preface Stub

Volume One: Certainty, Awareness, Will, Mind, and Selfhood

Chapter 16: An Eidem’s Discernment of its Body

Chapter 17: The Impossibility of Being the Sole Self in Existence

Part 5: Mind

Chapter: An Eidem-Inclusive Bundle Theory of Mind

Chapter: Enactive, Enherent, and Disjoined Volitions

Chapter: The Prototelos and Choice Making

Chapter: Concerning Thought

Chapter: Concerning Memory

Chapter: Concerning Forethought

Chapter: Concerning Expectations

Chapter: Selfhood Revisited

Chapter: Self-Awareness Revisited

Chapter: The Anima and Animus Revisited

Chapter: Happiness and Suffering Revisited

Volume Two: Formations, Objectivity, Compatibilism, Truth, and Value

Part 8: Formational Determinacy

Chapter: Formational Interdeterminacy

Chapter: Four Jointly Exhaustive Formation Possibilities

Chapter: Of Relations between Body and Mind

Part 9: Deriving the Metaphysics of Objectivity

Chapter: Concurrences of Eidems

Chapter: Four Jointly Exhaustive Types of Reality

Chapter: Concerning the Two Types of Objective Reality

Chapter: Retroactive Compatibilism

Chapter: Progressive Uniformitarianism

Chapter: Concerning the Supernatural

Part 10: Concerning Truth and Belief

Chapter: Four Truth Types

Chapter: Of Trust and Belief

Chapter: Enactive, Learned, and Innate Trust

Part 11: Value Theory

Chapter: The Identity Preservation Drive

Chapter: Deriving What Should be from that Euteleion which Is

Chapter: The Apeiroson

Chapter: The Turannon

Chapter: The Permanon

Chapter: The Nihilon

Chapter: The Dysteleion

Chapter: Compound Teloi and Teloi Concessions

Chapter: Competition between Teloi

Volume Three: Reasoning, Epistemology, Spacetime, Aesthetics, and Science

Part 12: Reasoning

Chapter: Logical Identity, Noncontradiction, and the Excluded Middle

Chapter: Of Form and Causal Information

Chapter: Of Reasoning and Justification

Chapter: Of Pre-Socratic Logos and the Notion of Karma

Chapter: Abductions, Inductions, and Deductions

Chapter: Of Numbers and Mathematics

Part 13: Epistemology

Chapter: Justification

Chapter: Knowledge

Chapter: Understanding

Part 14: Spacetime

Chapter: The Intrareal Present Moment

Chapter: The Equireal Present Moment

Chapter: Intra-, Inter-, and Equi-syncretic Spacetime

Part 15: Aesthetics

Chapter: Biological Fairness

Chapter: Psychological Fairness

Chapter: Conceptual Fairness

Part 16: Science

Chapter: The Scientific Method

Chapter: Natural Selection

Chapter: On the Emergence of Life from Nonlife

Chapter: Concerning the Beginning and End of the Universe