12,080
edits
Changes
Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems : Part 7 (view source)
Revision as of 20:56, 18 August 2011
, 20:56, 18 August 2011→7.1.7. Dues to Process: + text
====7.1.7. Dues to Process====
====7.1.7. Dues to Process====
One working out of this theme elaborates the relation of general values to the temporal processes that bring them into actual being. Whether an abiding value is reverenced as immanent or transcendent in relation to its actualizing process does not matter at this stage of discussion, provided that the value is understood to be real, potentially actual, and independent "in the long run" of its particular actualizations.
Each of these last provisos requires a bit of further explanation.
# A value can be appreciated as real independently of its being actually realized, so long as one understands its reality to consist at least partially in its potential actuality, which means the power it has to become actual in experience.
Whatever abides throughout a domain of activity, constantly pervading a collection of objects or persistently enduring an intervening process, constitutes a value that is amenable to being at least formally associated with any conceived boundary of this domain, even if this boundary is arbitrarily drawn, provided it circumscribes a region within the bounds of the domains's natural limits, that is, within the value's domain of constancy. In short, a constant value across a bounded domain can be "unequivocally projected" (UP'd) to its boundary.
Certainly, much that lies at the boundary of a procedural domain can appear to be transcendent from the point of view of its interior, so long as the whole arena of intervening activity remains transparent enough. This observation permits one to include both immanent and transcendent values under the single heading of "apparently binding" (AB) terminal values, thereby joining both together in a contrast with the temporal processes that actualize them.
A reference to an abiding value neither brings it into actual being nor makes it abide, though it can initiate the process of its realization. Mere reference to a value, however faithfully it devotes a sign of grace to its denotation, does not prove a significant reverence for that value. Only if a grace note's invocation of its denotation issues in the forms of preference and deference that transform actual conduct and inform live performance is there demonstrated a true appreciation of its value.
Mere reference to a value, however faithful in its denotation, does not prove a reverence of that value. Only if the indicated value issues in the preferences and deferences that inform conduct ...
Although its actualization is naturally dependent on time borne events, the value itself is usually recognized to possess a real character, one that makes it logically independent "in the long run" from the numerous inessential accidents of its initial condition and the inevitable peculiar biases that encumber the various stages of its particular instantiations. Therefore, since the independence of this AB terminal value is associated not with its origin but with its end, it is safe to refer to it as an "apparently ultimate" (AU) value.
====7.1.8. Duties to Purpose====
====7.1.8. Duties to Purpose====