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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 Humans"
Split Justification: All human interaction can be fundamentally categorized by its primary focus: either on the direct connection and relationship between specific individuals (from intimate bonds to fleeting encounters), or on the individual's engagement within and navigation of larger organized human collectives, their rules, roles, and systems. This dichotomy provides a comprehensive and distinct division between person-to-person dynamics and person-to-society dynamics.
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From: "Social Systems and Structures"
Split Justification: All social systems and structures can be fundamentally categorized by whether their rules, roles, and organization are explicitly codified, institutionalized, and formally enforced (formal systems), or are unwritten, emergent, culturally embedded, and maintained through custom, tradition, and implicit social pressure (informal systems). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a system's primary mode of operation is either formal or informal, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of collective human organization.
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From: "Informal Social Systems"
Split Justification: All informal social systems can be fundamentally divided into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories: those focused on the collective, unwritten understandings, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs that guide behavior (Shared Meaning and Norms), and those focused on the spontaneous, interactional processes and structures of influence, status, reputation, and cohesion that arise within groups (Emergent Social Dynamics). One describes the content and collective interpretation of the informal system, while the other describes the interactive mechanisms and relational outcomes.
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From: "Shared Meaning and Norms"
Split Justification: The node "Shared Meaning and Norms" encompasses both the collective cognitive frameworks by which a group understands and interprets the world (its 'meaning' and 'beliefs') and the collective evaluative and prescriptive frameworks that guide appropriate action and interaction (its 'values' and 'norms'). This split fundamentally divides these two aspects into a category focused on the descriptive understanding of reality and a category focused on the prescriptive principles and patterns of behavior within that reality.
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From: "Shared Worldviews and Belief Systems"
Split Justification: Shared Worldviews and Belief Systems fundamentally divide into two core components: those collective cognitive frameworks that describe the observable, verifiable, and causally understood aspects of reality (e.g., scientific principles, historical facts, common knowledge) and those frameworks that interpret the deeper meaning, purpose, and ultimate nature of existence, often extending beyond direct empirical observation (e.g., philosophical tenets, religious doctrines, theories of ultimate reality). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a belief's primary focus is either on the empirically ascertainable or the transcendent/interpretive, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all facets of how a group cognitively structures its understanding of the world.
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From: "Shared Empirical and Factual Beliefs"
Split Justification: All shared empirical and factual beliefs fundamentally describe either the specific states, properties, and occurrences of phenomena (declarative knowledge of 'what is'), or the underlying causal mechanisms, operational principles, and practical procedures that govern how phenomena interact, function, or can be manipulated (explanatory and functional knowledge of 'how things work' and 'why things happen'). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a belief is primarily focused on either description or explanation/function, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering the full scope of empirically verifiable collective understanding.
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From: "Shared Declarative Factual Knowledge"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally divides shared declarative factual knowledge ('what is') based on whether the subject of the knowledge pertains to realities, phenomena, and general facts that exist and are observable independently of the specific group's unique identity and history (supra-group), or if the subject directly concerns the group itself, its specific history, composition, or internal states (intra-group). This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division of all collective declarative empirical facts.
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From: "Shared Factual Knowledge of Intra-Group Realities"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally divides shared factual knowledge about a group into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories: those facts describing the group's inherent nature, internal composition, and historical development as a self-contained entity (its intrinsic identity and internal journey), versus those facts describing the group's status, relationships, and interactions within its external environment and with other entities (its outward-facing context and engagements).
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From: "Shared Factual Knowledge of the Group's Intrinsic Characteristics and Internal History"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally divides shared factual knowledge about a group's internal aspects into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories: those facts describing the group's inherent, defining traits, structure, and composition as it exists in the present (its intrinsic attributes), and those facts describing the chronological sequence of events, changes, and formative processes that have shaped the group's internal structure and identity over time (its internal historical processes). One focuses on the static 'what is', the other on the dynamic 'how it became'.
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From: "Shared Factual Knowledge of the Group's Internal Historical Processes"
Split Justification: All shared factual knowledge about a group's internal historical processes can be fundamentally divided into two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories: those facts describing the initial events, changes, and formative processes that led to the group's establishment, creation, or genesis (its formation and founding), and those facts describing all developments, changes, and transformations that occurred internally within the group after its initial formation. This dichotomy provides a clear chronological and logical division of a group's entire internal history.
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Topic: "Shared Factual Knowledge of the Group's Formation and Founding Processes" (W5388)