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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 Explanatory and Functional Knowledge"
Split Justification: All shared explanatory and functional knowledge fundamentally comprises two distinct types of collective understanding: that which focuses on explaining *why* phenomena occur and *how* they inherently operate through principles and causal mechanisms, and that which focuses on understanding *how* to achieve specific outcomes, perform tasks, or apply knowledge through practical procedures and operational methods. This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a piece of shared knowledge primarily serves either to explain an underlying reality or to guide practical application, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of a group's collective understanding of 'how things work', 'why things happen', and 'how to do things'.
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From: "Shared Explanatory Knowledge"
Split Justification: All shared explanatory knowledge fundamentally focuses on understanding the underlying causes and mechanisms of either the non-human, natural environment and its processes, or the actions, interactions, and structures created by human beings. This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as the primary subject matter of the explanation is distinct, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all domains requiring collective causal understanding within the empirical and factual realm.
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From: "Shared Explanations of Human and Social Phenomena"
Split Justification: All shared explanations of human and social phenomena fundamentally focus on two distinct levels of causality: those attributing phenomena to the internal states, decisions, and characteristics of individual human beings, and those attributing phenomena to the emergent properties, structures, and dynamics of groups, societies, and their historical or systemic contexts. This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a shared explanation primarily emphasizes either individual-level or supra-individual (collective/societal) level factors, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all fundamental types of collective causal understanding within the human and social domain.
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From: "Shared Explanations of Collective and Societal Dynamics"
Split Justification: ** All shared explanations of collective and societal dynamics fundamentally focus on understanding either the stable arrangements, patterns, and organizations that define the existence and form of groups and societies (configurations and structures), or the unfolding sequences of events, developments, and shifts that describe how these groups and societies evolve or change over time (processes and changes). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive, as a shared explanation primarily addresses either a static organization or a dynamic evolution, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of collective causal understanding within the social domain.
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Topic: "Shared Explanations of Collective and Societal Configurations and Structures" (W5772)