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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: "Personal Relationships"
Split Justification: Personal relationships can be fundamentally divided based on whether their primary origin is an unchosen, inherent bond (such as family or blood ties) or a volitional, chosen connection based on mutual interests, affection, or shared values. This dichotomy accounts for all personal bonds.
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From: "Kinship and Familial Relationships"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between family relationships primarily established through shared ancestry or bloodlines (kinship by descent) and those formed through marriage, adoption, or other social and legal compacts (kinship by alliance). This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division for all forms of inherent and familial bonds.
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From: "Kinship by Alliance"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between alliances that establish a spousal or domestic partnership between adults (e.g., marriage, civil unions) and those that establish a parental or guardianship role for an adult towards a child (e.g., adoption, foster care). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as a single alliance compact cannot simultaneously be both an adult partnership and a new parent-child bond, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of kinship established through formal compacts.
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From: "Alliances Establishing Adult Partnerships"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes adult partnership alliances based on the number of primary partners involved in the alliance: either exactly two individuals (monogamous) or more than two individuals (plural). This division is mutually exclusive, as an alliance cannot simultaneously be both, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all possible numerical configurations of adult partners in such alliances, a critical structural element for kinship systems.
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From: "Monogamous Adult Partnerships"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes monogamous adult partnerships based on whether their formal alliance is primarily established and recognized through legal systems (e.g., state marriage, civil union) or through established social customs, community norms, and explicit non-legal agreements. This division is mutually exclusive, as an alliance is either legally binding or it is not, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of formal compacts for adult partnership between two individuals.
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From: "Socially Constituted Monogamous Partnerships"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between monogamous adult partnerships whose social recognition primarily arises from the sustained observable practices and cohabitation of the partners, aligning with community customs and norms (e.g., de facto common-law relationships), and those whose social recognition is formally established through a specific, explicit non-legal agreement, declaration, or ritual, affirmed by their community. This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division for how socially constituted partnerships gain their recognized status without legal enactment.
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From: "Socially Recognized Through Explicit Compact"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between explicit compacts for monogamous adult partnerships whose social recognition primarily stems from their adherence to and enactment within a religious or spiritual tradition, and those whose social recognition is primarily derived from a non-religious, community-defined agreement, declaration, or ritual. This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division for how such explicit social compacts are constituted and affirmed.
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From: "Secular/Community Compacts"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between explicit secular/community compacts based on their primary mode of formalization: either through spoken words, vows, and ritualistic actions performed before a community, or through a detailed, documented agreement signed and acknowledged. This provides a mutually exclusive, as a compact is primarily one or the other in its establishment, and comprehensively exhaustive division for how such explicit compacts are constituted and affirmed within a community.
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From: "Compacts Formalized Through Written Agreement"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes written agreements based on their primary function: either to formally declare the existence, identity, and shared commitment of the partnership (affirming its status and public recognition within a community), or to detail the internal operational aspects, responsibilities, and resource arrangements between the partners (governing its functioning and day-to-day dynamics). This provides a mutually exclusive, as a compact primarily serves one core function over the other, and comprehensively exhaustive division for how such explicit written compacts are constituted and affirmed within a community.
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Topic: "Written Compacts for Partnership Affirmation" (W6032)