It is not only reasonable to speak of "one notion of
neutral-inclusivity", it is also evident that there is no
separate doctrine of neutrality besides a separate doctrine of
inclusivity. In other words: ours is one doctrine of
neutral-inclusivity. A convenient and significant abbreviation for
this doctrine is DNI. The norm of neutrality and the norm
of inclusivity are the paradigmatic or immutable norms of the DNI;
paradigmatic in that they together wholly determine our
denominational paradigm or potential paradigm, and immutable
in that they are not capable or susceptible of replacement or
great change without ruining the entire doctrine itself. They
are the sole, purely ground-world norms or principles, and as
such form the kernel of our doctrine. Of the principles which
are not purely nonpropositional, the metadoctrinal one underlying
the right to personhood is no part of the DNI, altho it is
part of our denominational system of disciplinary thought (and
denominational 'doctrine' in a wider sense). The principles of
the DNI are non-metadoctrinal, that is, doctrinal as opposed to
metadoctrinal. The sole principle in addition to those of
catenated neutrality and of discriminational relevance, which is
not purely propositional and part of the DNI, is the principle
of truth.
If we confine ourselves to the nonpropositional realm and
conceive of neutral-inclusivity as one perfective value, the DNI
is ultimately a monistic ground-world doctrine. On the surface
it may seem rather pluralistic with values like nondiscrimination,
beneficence, symmetry, equality, nanhonore, truth and
coherence. But firstly, values like truth and coherence are not
ground-world values; and secondly, we have seen how the norm of
neutrality starts from the normative superiority of a secondary
predicate. By taking a secondary predicate like neutralness as
the value to be pursued, many primary values of different
dimensions can be subsumed under one supervalue. Given the
intimate connection between neutrality and inclusivity,
neutral-inclusivism offers therefore a monistic view of nonpropositional
reality, altho not the monistic view of a system in which a
number of old and/or new theories are eclectically soldered
together. It is the one value of neutral-inclusivity itself
which encompasses an indefinite number of values of indefinitely
many different dimensions. Neutral-inclusivity transcends all
these dimensions.
Those who have claimed that a complete normative doctrine
must always be pluralistic, while thinking of values supposedly
being of the same category, like happiness, justice or equality,
freedom and truth, have made a number of mistakes. Firstly, they
have not differentiated doctrinal and metadoctrinal values such
as freedom in a sense. Secondly, they have not differentiated
nonpropositional and propositional values such as truth. Thirdly,
they have not realized that values which are of a different
dimension can still be subsumed under one supervalue if the
former ones belong to the primary domain, and the latter one to
the secondary domain. And fourthly, they have confused perfective
values on the one hand and instrumental or corrective
values on the other. Neutral-inclusivism proves that a ground-world
doctrine can be monistic without suffering from the
serious flaws, fallacies and fancies of monistic beliefs like
utilitarianism, libertarianism, agapism and monotheism. Tho our
denominational ideology is not monistic on the whole, what is to
be added to neutral-inclusivism is a principle of truth which is
(partially) propositional; and what is in turn to be added to
the DNI is a principle of personhood which is metadoctrinal.
The principle of truth is propositional insofar as it governs
the relationship between the ground-world and propositional
reality. Unlike the norm of inclusivity and the norm of
neutrality it is not paradigmatic since most, if not all,
lovers of disciplinary thought pay lip-service to some kind of
truth or principle of truth. (Adherents of certain monotheist
ideologies may thus call their supreme deity "Truth"; and
adherents of the same or other ideologies may thus call their
supreme newspaper "Truth".) The recognition of truth as a value
does not distinguish the DNI from exclusivist and extremist
doctrines, yet what does distinguish it from those doctrines is
the neutral-inclusivist, non-supernaturalist interpretation of
truth. It has already been shown, and will be shown again, at
many places in this Model how much the supernaturalist assault
on truth, which has been going on for thousands of years,
deviates from the neutral-inclusivist position on this value.
And this even tho truth in itself is neither neutral nor
inclusive.