THE CRUCIAL LOGIC MIND MAP: 7 PRIMARY LIMBS

 IF THE CRUCIAL LOGIC IS THE CENTER OF A MIND MAP, WHAT ARE THE 7 LIMBS?

## **THE CRUCIAL LOGIC MIND MAP: 7 PRIMARY LIMBS**

**CENTER: Only controlled things can have genuine value**

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## **LIMB 1: THE CONTROL DICHOTOMY**

- **Binary division:** Controlled vs. uncontrolled (no middle ground)

- **What's controlled:** Judgments, choices, responses, character development

- **What's uncontrolled:** All externals (events, others' actions, outcomes, body)

- **Foundation:** Everything else derives from correctly identifying this boundary

## **LIMB 2: VALUE ASSIGNMENT THEORY**

- **Value follows control:** Only controlled things can be good/bad

- **Externals are indifferent:** Neither good nor bad, regardless of preference

- **False assignment error:** Treating externals as genuinely valuable

- **Recognition principle:** Discover rather than create what has value

## **LIMB 3: EMOTIONAL REGULATION**

- **Desire/aversion alignment:** Direct only toward controlled domain

- **Disturbance diagnosis:** All upset traces to false value assignment

- **Impression management:** Refuse assent to external-value claims

- **Tranquility result:** Freedom from emotional dependence on externals

## **LIMB 4: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT**

- **Virtue as excellence:** Excellence in controlled domain (wisdom, justice, courage, temperance)

- **The only reliable good:** Because it's the only thing you can guarantee

- **Sage ideal:** Perfect application of crucial logic (no false value assignments)

- **Progressive development:** Building virtue through consistent appropriate choices

## **LIMB 5: PRACTICAL ACTION**

- **Dual intention structure:** External goal + maintaining virtue

- **Success redefinition:** Measured by controlled performance, not outcomes

- **Appropriate action:** Rational engagement with externals without attachment

- **With reservation:** "If circumstances permit" acknowledgment

## **LIMB 6: THE THREE DISCIPLINES**

- **Discipline of Desire:** Emotional investment only in controlled domain

- **Discipline of Action:** Excellence in response regardless of external results

- **Discipline of Assent:** Only accept true impressions about value

- **Unified practice:** All three implement crucial logic simultaneously

## **LIMB 7: PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS**

- **Preferred indifferents:** Practical engagement while maintaining value hierarchy

- **Stoic physics/cosmology:** Accept cosmic order while focusing on your role

- **Social ethics:** Excellence in relationships without controlling others' responses

- **Death/impermanence:** Recognition that all externals are temporary and indifferent

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## **THE INTERCONNECTIONS:**

**Each limb connects back to the center and to every other limb because they're all expressions of the same fundamental insight.**

**The mind map shows:** The crucial logic isn't just one idea among many - it's the **generative principle** that creates and unifies the entire Stoic philosophical system.