3.3.3 |
THE DUAL CHARACTER OF THE DNI'S PRINCIPAL
SYMBOLISM |
The adoption of the
ananorm has led us in two
different directions: firstly, to the province of neutrality proper or
ananicity;
and secondly, to the province of neutral-directedness or
nanaicity.
As the fields of neutrality proper and
neutral-directedness do not overlap, there is a basic difference in
character between these fields. This dual character of both
fundamental and symbolic, neutral thought shows best when comparing
the all-ananic with
the all-nanaic for a number of
facets. (The last three in the following list will be dealt
with in Chapter Five.)
THE ALL-ANANIC (the supreme being)
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THE ALL-NANAIC (the all-nanan)
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normative supremeness |
normative inferiority (nonsupremeness) |
neutrality (ananicity) |
unneutrality, both positive and negative |
nan-nanapolarity |
nanapolarity, positivity (nanaicity) |
passiveness |
activeness |
preservation |
creation, improvement |
rest |
motion, movement |
situational goodness |
ethical goodness, beneficence |
centricity |
direction |
confinement to one location |
universal presence |
one primary thing: singularity, individuality |
indefinite number of primary things: plurality |
either personal or nonpersonal |
both personal and nonpersonal |
possible existence |
indisputable existence |
idealism |
realism |
must not be addressed or prayed to |
can be addressed |
contemplation, meditation |
celebration |
end of summer or winter |
beginning of summer or winter |
beginning of spring or fall |
end of spring or fall |
The above juxtaposition demonstrates that the neutral and the
neutral-directed together include almost every possible quality or state
of affairs in the fields they cover. Even negativity is included under
nanapolar negativity; and
positivity under nanapolar positivity and under nanaicity, which is a
positive predicate. There is, of course, one important
exception. It is that neither principal being represents non-nanapolar
unneutrality. And with the exclusion of non-nanapolar
unneutrality neither fundamental symbol represents situational
or ethical badness or evil. In other words, neither symbol
represents situational deterioration and destruction.
Since it has been a well-considered choice in the doctrine of
neutral-inclusivity
to assign a special status to the
neutrality of the
catena rather than to the, or a,
negativity or positivity, the exclusion of non-nanapolar unneutrality,
which is indirectly the result of it, cannot be regarded as arbitrary.
The fact that nonneutral, non-nanapolar predicates are
secondary things
is even more significant. For it means that
the DNI does
nowhere symbolically exclude a system of
primary attributes and
relations, that is, a
primary thing, whether personal
like ourselves or not. Even tho the DNI must make a choice in order
to be a normative doctrine at all, it does not arbitrarily endow
any nonpredicative thing (such as a human being) with highness,
while referring other nonpredicative things (human beings) to a
lower class. (This Model nowhere states --like a venom-spouting
monotheist sacred book-- that certain groups of human beings are the
supreme being's abomination and should be exterminated.)
The dual character of neutralism follows from the condition
that neutrality needs a certain type of unneutrality, namely the
nanaicity to maintain, to establish or to reestablish
neutrality. If the DNI exclusively permitted neutrality, unneutral
conditions would remain unneutral forever, which could result in
the end of all neutrality. At the same time this dual character
which renders fundamental neutral thought inclusivistic also
gives an inclusive appearance to the DNI's principal symbolism.
The inclusive, dual character of this symbolism represents in
itself the inseparability of neutral and inclusive thought.
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