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    A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction
    A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction
    A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction
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    A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

    By Razie Mah

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    How do humans process “what is before us”?
    The answer is construction. Those familiar with Kenneth Gergen’s interpretive psychology are acquainted with one type of construction: social construction. But what contrasts with social construction? The answer is: sensible construction.
    Pascal Boyer’s experimental research into the religious experience provides the key differentiator between these two types of construction. The content beneath sensible construction is intuitively sensical. The content beneath social construction is nonsensically counterintuitive. In sum, content itself triggers which type of construction takes place.
    The nature and structure of sensible and social construction may be modeled using the category based nested form. The form scales. The elements within a nested form may be nested forms. This adds a flexibility to the nested form analysis. Nested form analysis can scale to meet the complexity of whatever system is before us. Here, the levels of perspective, situation and content have the same relational structure as the nested form of normal context, actuality and possibility. The resulting models are strikingly elegant and straightforward.
    Both sensible and social construction are innate. They evolved to explore cognitive spaces. Sensible construction explores the sensical. Social construction explores the nonsensical. Both constructions are highly adaptive. Sensible construction is evolutionarily ancient. Social construction is evolutionarily recent. Finally, after the first singularity, sensible construction is now based entirely on social construction. For this reason, our current Lebenswelt is not the same “as the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.”
    The category based nested form is derived from the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. It constitutes a way of understanding that coheres with our innate thought processes. It offers a way to interpret all existence that is radically superior to either modern science or scholastic speculation, without dismissing either as irrelevant. Why? Relation-based speculation is disregarded by modern science. Modern experimentation was historically disregarded by scholastic speculation. Peirce’s categories constitute an opportunity to transcend the self-imposed limitations of both traditions.
    In sum, this series of primers serve as an introduction to a new way of thinking: postmodern scholasticism. Welcome to the fourth age of understanding.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateJan 25, 2015
    ISBN9781942824015
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      A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction - Razie Mah

      A Primer On Sensible and Social Construction

      Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      7814 U0'

      2014 AD

      Notes on Text

      This primer is the second in a series of ten associated with the master-work, How To Define the Word Religion. The category-based nested form has a fractal (or scalable) nature. Two constructions are highlighted. Sensible construction associates to the two-level interscope. Social construction goes with the three level interscope.

      Single quotes and italics may group words together.

      U0' stands for Ubaid Zero Prime. To convert to AD, subtraction 5800.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Nested Forms Scale

      Sensible Construction

      Social Construction

      An Application

      What Stands Before Me?

      Practice

      Is This Natural?

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      0001 Normal context3( actuality2( possibility inherent in 'something'1))

      The category-based nested form poses a challenge for anyone considering what is before me. It offers an open structure with three empty slots.

      In order to fill the slots, one must ask three questions:

      What is actual2?

      What puts the actual2 into context3?

      What is the ‘something’1 that makes the actuality2 possible?

      0002 From A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, I already know that the answers should satisfy these four statements:

      Actuality2 emerges from the possibility of 'something'1.

      Actuality2 situates the possibility of 'something'1.

      A normal context3 contextualizes actuality2.

      A normal context3 brings actuality2 into relation with the possibility of 'something'1.

      0003 Here is a technical picture of the category-based nested form as elements and as relations among these elements.

      0004 Of course, there are difficulties, since one or more elements may not be apparent. What stands before me is not required to reveal its normal context or potential. That is the purpose of inquiry.

      Nested Forms Scale

      0005 Perspectivec (situationb( contenta))

      Nested forms scale. A nested form may be composed of nested forms. The higher scale should have different names than the lower scale. For the primary scale,

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