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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 the Non-Human World"
Split Justification: All human interaction with the non-human world fundamentally involves either the cognitive process of seeking knowledge, meaning, or appreciation from it (e.g., science, observation, art), or the active, practical process of physically altering, shaping, or making use of it for various purposes (e.g., technology, engineering, resource management). These two modes represent distinct primary intentions and outcomes, yet together comprehensively cover the full scope of how humans engage with the non-human realm.
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From: "Understanding and Interpreting the Non-Human World"
Split Justification: Humans understand and interpret the non-human world either by objectively observing and analyzing its inherent structures, laws, and phenomena to gain factual knowledge, or by subjectively engaging with it to derive aesthetic value, emotional resonance, or existential meaning. These two modes represent distinct intentions and methodologies, yet together comprehensively cover all ways of understanding and interpreting the non-human world.
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From: "Understanding Objective Realities"
Split Justification: Humans understand objective realities either through empirical investigation of the physical and biological world and its governing laws, or through the deductive exploration of abstract structures, logical rules, and mathematical principles. These two domains represent fundamentally distinct methodologies and objects of study, yet together encompass all forms of objective understanding of non-human reality.
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From: "Understanding Formal Systems and Principles"
Split Justification: Humans understand formal systems and principles either by focusing on the abstract study of quantity, structure, space, and change (e.g., arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus), or by focusing on the abstract study of reasoning, inference, truth, algorithms, and information processing (e.g., formal logic, theoretical computer science). These two domains represent distinct yet exhaustive categories of formal inquiry.
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From: "Understanding Mathematical Principles"
Split Justification: Humans understand mathematical principles either by exploring their inherent abstract properties, axioms, and logical consistency for their own sake (pure mathematics), or by developing and applying these principles to create models that describe, predict, and control phenomena in the natural and human-made worlds (applied mathematics). These two approaches represent distinct primary aims in the pursuit of mathematical understanding, yet together they comprehensively cover the full spectrum of how mathematical principles are understood.
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From: "Understanding Mathematical Modeling and Application"
Split Justification: Mathematical modeling and application fundamentally serve two distinct primary purposes: either to understand, describe, and predict the behavior of existing or evolving phenomena and systems, or to actively design, optimize, and control systems to achieve specific desired outcomes or improve performance. These two purposes represent a complete and non-overlapping categorization of how mathematical models are applied.
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From: "Understanding and Forecasting Phenomena"
Split Justification: Humans apply mathematical models to phenomena either with the primary goal of dissecting and elucidating the underlying structures, causal mechanisms, and dynamic processes that explain how a system works, or with the primary goal of projecting its future states, trends, and probabilistic outcomes. These two distinct yet complementary aims comprehensively cover the full scope of understanding and forecasting phenomena.
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From: "Modeling for Explanatory Understanding"
Split Justification: Humans explain how a system works using mathematical models either by primarily detailing and formalizing its observable patterns, relationships, and organization (descriptive/structural understanding), or by primarily identifying and representing the underlying processes, forces, and causal pathways that drive its behavior (causal/mechanistic understanding). These two modes of explanation represent distinct yet comprehensively exhaustive primary aims in modeling for explanatory understanding.
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From: "Modeling for Causal and Mechanistic Explanation"
Split Justification: ** Humans model for causal and mechanistic explanation either by primarily focusing on the properties and interactions of the constituent parts or elements of a system to elucidate its internal workings, or by primarily focusing on the overarching forces, feedback loops, and dynamic principles that govern the behavior and evolution of the system as a cohesive whole. These two approaches represent distinct yet comprehensively exhaustive primary aims in providing causal and mechanistic explanations.
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From: "Modeling System-Level Causal Dynamics"
Split Justification: System-level causal dynamics are fundamentally modeled either as entirely predictable and rule-bound given initial conditions and governing laws (deterministic), where causes precisely dictate effects, or as inherently probabilistic and influenced by random variations (stochastic), where causes influence the likelihood of effects. These two approaches represent distinct yet comprehensively exhaustive primary aims in understanding the causal evolution of a system as a cohesive whole.
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Topic: "Modeling Stochastic System Dynamics" (W7762)