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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 Descent"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between kin relationships established in a direct line of ascent or descent (e.g., parent-child, grandparent-grandchild) and those who share a common ancestor but are not in a direct lineal relationship (e.g., siblings, cousins, aunts/uncles). This classification provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division for all forms of kinship by descent.
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From: "Direct Kinship"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between direct lineal relationships tracing upwards to ancestors (e.g., parents, grandparents) and those tracing downwards to descendants (e.g., children, grandchildren). This classification provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division for all forms of direct kinship.
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From: "Direct Ancestral Kinship"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between direct ancestral relationships that are one generation removed from the individual (parents) and those that are two or more generations removed (grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on). This division is mutually exclusive, as a relationship cannot be both parental and non-parental in the direct line, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of direct ancestral kinship.
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From: "Parental Kinship"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between the relationship with the mother (maternal kinship) and the relationship with the father (paternal kinship). Given that "Parental Kinship" at this level refers to direct ancestral relationships within "Kinship by Descent" (implying biological ties), every individual has a distinct biological mother and a distinct biological father. This division is mutually exclusive, as a parent is either the mother or the father, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of direct parental kinship by descent.
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From: "Maternal Kinship"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between the kinship relationship with a mother who is currently alive and the kinship relationship with a mother who has passed away. This objective distinction significantly alters the nature, potential for interaction, and lived experience of the maternal bond, thereby encompassing all possible states of direct maternal kinship by descent. It is mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Living Maternal Kinship"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between a living mother who possesses full physical, cognitive, and emotional capabilities to engage in the relationship as an independent and fully active participant, and a living mother whose physical, cognitive, or emotional capacities are significantly diminished, thereby altering the dynamic, nature of interaction, and the potential for the relationship. This is an objective distinction that profoundly impacts the lived experience of the maternal bond and covers all possible states of a living mother's capacity.
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From: "Mother with Full Capacity"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between a living mother with full capacity who actively participates and maintains an ongoing connection in the individual's life (characterized by regular interaction, emotional presence, and mutual influence) and one who, despite possessing full physical, cognitive, and emotional capabilities, maintains a significant distance, minimal involvement, or a state of estrangement from the individual. This division is mutually exclusive, as a relationship cannot be simultaneously active and disengaged, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all potential states of engagement for a full-capacity maternal relationship.
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Topic: "Relationally Disengaged Mother" (W6144)