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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "External World (Interaction)"
Split Justification: All external interactions fundamentally involve either other human beings (social, cultural, relational, political) or the non-human aspects of existence (physical environment, objects, technology, natural world). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Interaction with the Non-Human World"
Split Justification: All human interaction with the non-human world fundamentally involves either the cognitive process of seeking knowledge, meaning, or appreciation from it (e.g., science, observation, art), or the active, practical process of physically altering, shaping, or making use of it for various purposes (e.g., technology, engineering, resource management). These two modes represent distinct primary intentions and outcomes, yet together comprehensively cover the full scope of how humans engage with the non-human realm.
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From: "Modifying and Utilizing the Non-Human World"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates human activities within the "Modifying and Utilizing the Non-Human World" into two exhaustive and mutually exclusive categories. The first focuses on directly altering, extracting from, cultivating, and managing the planet's inherent geological, biological, and energetic systems (e.g., agriculture, mining, direct energy harnessing, water management). The second focuses on the design, construction, manufacturing, and operation of complex artificial systems, technologies, and built environments that human intelligence creates from these processed natural elements (e.g., civil engineering, manufacturing, software development, robotics, power grids). Together, these two categories cover the full spectrum of how humans actively reshape and leverage the non-human realm.
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From: "Creating and Advancing Human-Engineered Superstructures"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally separates human-engineered superstructures based on their primary mode of existence and interaction. The first category encompasses all tangible, material structures, machines, and physical networks built by humans. The second covers all intangible, computational, and data-based architectures, algorithms, and virtual environments that operate within the digital realm. Together, these two categories comprehensively cover the full spectrum of artificial systems and environments humans create, and they are mutually exclusive in their primary manifestation.
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From: "Engineered Digital and Informational Systems"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates Engineered Digital and Informational Systems based on their primary role regarding digital information. The first category encompasses all systems dedicated to the static representation, organization, storage, persistence, and accessibility of digital information (e.g., databases, file systems, data schemas, content management systems, knowledge graphs). The second category comprises all systems focused on the dynamic processing, transformation, analysis, and control of this information, defining how data is manipulated, communicated, and used to achieve specific outcomes or behaviors (e.g., software algorithms, artificial intelligence models, operating system kernels, network protocols, control logic). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover the full scope of digital systems, as every such system inherently involves both structured information and the processes that act upon it, and they are mutually exclusive in their primary nature (information as the "what" versus computation as the "how").
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From: "Information Structures and Data Repositories"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates "Information Structures and Data Repositories" into two categories: the abstract definitions and organizational principles (the "blueprint") and the concrete data instances and content (the "filled-in details"). The first category encompasses the formal descriptions, rules, and relationships that govern how information is structured, represented, and interrelated (e.g., database schemas, data types, metadata standards, ontological models). The second category comprises the actual, specific values, records, files, or media content that conform to these structures and are stored for persistence and accessibility (e.g., rows in a database table, bytes in a file, documents in a content repository). Together, these two aspects comprehensively cover the entire scope of any digital information system, as every system requires both a defined structure and the actual data populating it. They are mutually exclusive because a structural definition is distinct from the specific data instances it describes.
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From: "Stored Data and Content Instances"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates "Stored Data and Content Instances" based on the rigidity and explicitness of their underlying schema and organization. The first category encompasses data that conforms to a highly organized, predefined model, typically found in tabular, relational, or highly standardized formats, enabling precise querying and systematic processing. The second category includes data that lacks such a rigid, explicit schema, covering free-form text, multimedia, and data with flexible or self-describing structures (e.g., JSON, XML, log files), which often require more adaptive or content-based analysis methods. Together, these two categories comprehensively cover all forms of digital information instances, and they are mutually exclusive in their primary structural characteristics.
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From: "Structured Data Instances"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes structured data instances based on whether they record a discrete occurrence in time ("what happened") or describe the persistent attributes of an object or the current condition ("what is"). Event Data Instances capture actions, changes, or measurements at a specific point, often immutable once recorded (e.g., transactions, sensor readings, log entries of specific actions). Entity and State Data Instances describe the characteristics and current conditions of entities or resources, which are typically subject to updates and modifications (e.g., customer profiles, product specifications, current inventory levels, account balances). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover all forms of structured data instances, as any such instance fundamentally represents either an event or an an entity/state, and they are mutually exclusive in their primary semantic nature.
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From: "Entity and State Data Instances"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates "Entity and State Data Instances" based on their primary role: defining the entity itself versus describing its characteristics, connections, or dynamic conditions. The first category encompasses structured data instances whose primary purpose is to uniquely identify and define independent, core entities within a system (e.g., a specific customer record, a unique product master, a particular location instance). The second category includes structured data instances that describe specific characteristics or attributes of an entity, define relationships between entities, or represent current, potentially dynamic conditions or states associated with these core entities (e.g., a customer's current address, a product's price, an inventory level for a product, an order line item linking an order to a product). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover all structured data representing entities and their states, and they are mutually exclusive based on whether the data primarily serves to identify and define the entity or to detail its associated properties, relationships, or current conditions.
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From: "Entity Properties, Relationships, and Current States"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates data within "Entity Properties, Relationships, and Current States" based on whether it describes qualities and conditions directly associated with an individual entity, or if it defines connections and associations between distinct entities. "Entity Attributes and Current Status" encompasses all descriptive properties, characteristics, and current conditions (static or dynamic) that are intrinsic to a single entity (e.g., a product's color, an employee's salary, an inventory count, an order's fulfilment status). "Inter-Entity Relationships" encompasses all data that specifies how one entity is logically linked to another or participates in an association with other entities (e.g., a customer places an order, a product is composed of parts, an employee reports to a manager). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover the scope of the parent node, and they are mutually exclusive as attributes and status describe an entity's inherent qualities, while relationships describe its connections to other entities.
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From: "Entity Attributes and Current Status"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates "Entity Attributes and Current Status" based on the stability and permanence of the information. The first category, "Enduring Entity Properties," encompasses attributes that define the fundamental, intrinsic characteristics of an entity, which are generally stable or change infrequently over its lifecycle through deliberate modification (e.g., a product's model number, an employee's date of birth, a vehicle's VIN, a descriptive name). The second category, "Transient Entity States," includes attributes that capture the dynamic, often rapidly changing, operational conditions, statuses, or quantifiable measures of an entity at a particular point in time (e.g., an inventory count, a machine's operating temperature, an order's fulfilment status, an account balance). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover all attributes and current conditions of a single entity, as any such data point is either relatively stable and descriptive or dynamic and indicative of current state, and they are mutually exclusive based on their temporal stability and expected frequency of change.
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Topic: "Enduring Entity Properties" (W4958)