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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: "Religious/Spiritual Compacts"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes religious/spiritual compacts for adult partnerships based on whether the compact is primarily understood by the tradition as directly instituted by the divine, often signifying an indissoluble and spiritually transformative bond (e.g., sacrament, covenant), or as a human-initiated agreement that receives divine blessing, sanction, or guidance, often allowing for dissolution under specified conditions (e.g., religious contract). This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division reflecting the fundamental theological nature of the compact within diverse religious and spiritual traditions.
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From: "Divinely Instituted Compacts"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally distinguishes between divinely instituted compacts where the divine action is understood to create a new, singular spiritual reality or entity from the partners, and those where the divine action establishes and sanctifies a profound, binding agreement or covenant between partners, with God as the ultimate guarantor. This provides a mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive division of the ways a compact can be understood as directly instituted by the divine, reflecting distinct theological mechanisms of formation and spiritual effect.
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Topic: "Compacts Establishing Divine Pledges" (W6544)