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By Dave Kelly

Sunday, January 18, 2026

FIVE STEPS - ONE-WORD/HYPHENATED MIND MAPS


FIVE STEPS - ONE-WORD/HYPHENATED MIND MAPS



1. IMPRESSION

IMPRESSION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-IMPACT
│   ├─ Violent-entry
│   ├─ Pre-philosophical
│   ├─ Pre-reflective
│   ├─ Not-neutral-data
│   ├─ Not-psychological
│   ├─ Already-propositional
│   └─ Claim-before-thought
│
├─ TRIPLE-ACTION
│   ├─ Appears
│   │   ├─ Event-entry
│   │   ├─ Formatted-proposition
│   │   └─ Already-interpreted
│   ├─ Asserts
│   │   ├─ Claims-what-is
│   │   ├─ Certainty-speech
│   │   └─ Grammatical-fact-force
│   ├─ Demands
│   │   ├─ Assent-pull
│   │   ├─ Belief-solicitation
│   │   └─ Immediate-reaction
│   └─ Juridical-structure
│       └─ Plaintiff-before-prohairesis
│
├─ BUILT-IN-CORRESPONDENCE
│   ├─ Truth-apt-structure
│   │   ├─ Reality-match-claim
│   │   ├─ Representation-presentation
│   │   └─ Already-truth-claim
│   ├─ Claim-types
│   │   ├─ Event-claims
│   │   ├─ Property-claims
│   │   └─ Moral-claims
│   └─ Ontological-point
│       └─ Native-correspondence
│
├─ EVALUATIVE-CONTENT
│   ├─ Moralized-impressions
│   │   ├─ Objective-harm-claim
│   │   ├─ Objective-injustice-claim
│   │   └─ Objective-shame-claim
│   ├─ Perceptual-moral-realism
│   │   ├─ Value-as-reality-property
│   │   └─ Not-subjective-reaction
│   └─ Presupposed-moral-realism
│
├─ PRETENSE-OF-AUTHORITY
│   ├─ Phenomenological-authority
│   │   ├─ Truth-presentation
│   │   ├─ Urgency-presentation
│   │   └─ Action-presentation
│   ├─ No-self-marking
│   │   ├─ No-fallibility-announcement
│   │   └─ No-belief-request
│   └─ Automatic-assent-danger
│
├─ TAXONOMY-OF-ERROR
│   ├─ False-fact
│   ├─ False-value
│   ├─ Mixed-error
│   └─ Framework-dependence
│       ├─ Requires-correspondence
│       ├─ Requires-moral-realism
│       └─ Requires-internal-external-distinction
│
├─ NECESSITY-OF-PAUSE
│   ├─ Juridical-function
│   │   ├─ Authority-suspension
│   │   ├─ Fact-value-separation
│   │   └─ Reality-testing
│   ├─ Transformation
│   │   ├─ Reflex-to-judgment
│   │   └─ Reaction-to-rational-action
│   └─ Without-pause
│       └─ Automatic-assent
│
└─ CENTRAL-RECOGNITION
    ├─ Not-neutral
    │   ├─ Propositional
    │   ├─ Evaluative
    │   └─ Authoritative-form
    ├─ Commitments-as-preconditions
    │   ├─ Not-added-later
    │   └─ Already-operating
    └─ Training-task
        ├─ Authority-interruption
        ├─ Jurisdiction-reassertion
        └─ Correspondence-judging-not-persuasion

2. RECOGNITION

RECOGNITION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-SEPARATION
│   ├─ Pre-recognition-state
│   │   ├─ Impression-as-world
│   │   ├─ Appearance-equals-belief
│   │   ├─ No-seems-is-distinction
│   │   └─ No-representation-reality-difference
│   ├─ Act-of-recognition
│   │   ├─ Identity-breaking
│   │   ├─ World-to-representation-reclassification
│   │   └─ Ontological-distinction-restoration
│   └─ Ontological-function
│       └─ World-impression-self-distinction
│
├─ TRIPLE-DISTINCTION
│   ├─ External-event
│   │   └─ World-occurrence
│   ├─ Impression
│   │   ├─ Mental-event
│   │   ├─ Assertive-representation
│   │   └─ Truth-apt-claim
│   ├─ Prohairesis
│   │   ├─ Rational-subject
│   │   ├─ Judgment-locus
│   │   └─ Appearance-recipient
│   └─ Subject-object-structure-restoration
│
├─ DUALIST-OPERATION
│   ├─ Metaphysical-presupposition
│   │   ├─ Mind-not-impression
│   │   ├─ Impression-not-world
│   │   └─ Self-not-appearance
│   ├─ Epictetan-formula
│   │   └─ Impression-not-what-appears
│   └─ Subject-position-reclamation
│
├─ REALITY-TO-REPRESENTATION
│   ├─ Before-recognition
│   │   ├─ State-of-affairs-feeling
│   │   ├─ This-is-so-not-this-claims
│   │   └─ Not-truth-apt-from-inside
│   ├─ After-recognition
│   │   ├─ Same-content
│   │   ├─ Different-logical-role
│   │   └─ Now-classified-as-claim
│   └─ Category-shift-not-content-change
│
├─ CORRESPONDENCE-BECOMES-POSSIBLE
│   ├─ Pre-recognition
│   │   └─ Nothing-to-test
│   ├─ Post-recognition
│   │   ├─ Match-or-fail-possibility
│   │   ├─ True-or-false-possibility
│   │   └─ Normatively-correct-or-incorrect
│   └─ Testing-made-possible
│
├─ OPENING-OF-SPACE
│   ├─ Logical-space-created
│   │   ├─ Appearance-assent-gap
│   │   ├─ Stimulus-judgment-gap
│   │   └─ Representation-belief-gap
│   ├─ Effect
│   │   ├─ Belief-becomes-optional
│   │   └─ Automatic-assent-blocked
│   └─ Freedom-structural-condition
│
└─ CENTRAL-RECOGNITION
    ├─ Not-psychological
    │   ├─ Not-introspection
    │   ├─ Not-awareness
    │   └─ Not-metacognition
    ├─ Ontological-act
    │   ├─ Subject-representation-distinction
    │   ├─ World-into-representable
    │   └─ Error-made-possible
    └─ Ethical-consequence
        ├─ Judgment-birth
        ├─ Freedom-birth
        └─ Responsibility-birth

3. PAUSE

PAUSE
│
├─ NATURE-OF-PAUSE
│   ├─ Assent-suspension
│   │   ├─ Impression-present
│   │   ├─ Belief-not-yet-formed
│   │   ├─ Movement-held-open
│   │   └─ Freedom-as-non-completion
│   ├─ Not-delay
│   │   ├─ Not-indecision
│   │   ├─ Not-confusion
│   │   └─ Not-temporal-latency
│   └─ Definition
│       └─ Assent-withholding
│
├─ INDETERMINACY-OF-ASSENT
│   ├─ Determinism-rejection
│   │   ├─ Impression-not-fixing-assent
│   │   ├─ Prior-states-not-fixing-assent
│   │   └─ Future-not-in-past
│   ├─ Ontological-openness
│   │   ├─ Multiple-outcomes-genuinely-possible
│   │   ├─ Not-epistemic-ignorance
│   │   └─ Not-mere-delay
│   └─ Libertarian-freedom
│       ├─ Assent-not-necessitated
│       ├─ Pause-as-freedom-form
│       └─ Without-this-no-agency
│
├─ DOMAIN-OF-PAUSE
│   ├─ Not-physical
│   │   ├─ Not-in-body
│   │   ├─ Not-neural
│   │   ├─ Not-governed-by-physical-law
│   │   └─ Not-brain-state
│   ├─ Located-in-prohairesis
│   │   ├─ Rational-faculty
│   │   ├─ Assent-faculty
│   │   └─ Judgment-faculty
│   └─ Causal-break
│       ├─ Stimulus-not-necessitating-response
│       └─ Break-not-link
│
├─ LIVED-STRUCTURE
│   ├─ Physical-layer
│   │   ├─ Heart-rate-change
│   │   ├─ Adrenaline-release
│   │   └─ Muscular-preparation
│   ├─ Representational-layer
│   │   └─ Harm-impression
│   └─ Rational-layer
│       ├─ Impression-held
│       ├─ Neither-accepted-nor-rejected
│       └─ Assent-suspended
│
├─ NECESSARY-COMMITMENTS
│   ├─ Libertarian-freedom
│   │   ├─ Otherwise-assent-fixed
│   │   └─ Pause-becomes-illusion
│   ├─ Substance-dualism
│   │   ├─ Otherwise-neural-causation-collapse
│   │   └─ No-non-physical-domain
│   └─ Joint-necessity
│       └─ Remove-either-pause-disappears
│
└─ CENTRAL-FUNCTION
    ├─ Not-technique
    │   ├─ Not-strategy
    │   └─ Not-psychological-trick
    ├─ Structural-role
    │   ├─ Causal-momentum-interruption
    │   ├─ Impression-to-proposal
    │   └─ Agency-made-possible
    └─ Ethical-significance
        ├─ Responsibility-begins
        ├─ Self-becomes-accountable
        └─ Freedom-becomes-real

4. EXAMINATION

EXAMINATION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-TESTING
│   ├─ Precondition
│   │   ├─ Impression-separated
│   │   ├─ Impression-suspended
│   │   └─ Impression-as-claim
│   ├─ Nature-of-act
│   │   ├─ Claim-measured-against-reality
│   │   ├─ Existing-criteria-application
│   │   └─ What-is-determination
│   └─ Not
│       ├─ Not-deliberation
│       ├─ Not-preference-weighing
│       └─ Not-meaning-negotiation
│
├─ BEDROCK-OF-JUDGMENT
│   ├─ Axiomatic-standards
│   │   ├─ Virtue-equals-only-good
│   │   ├─ Vice-equals-only-evil
│   │   ├─ All-else-indifferent
│   │   └─ Only-up-to-us-has-moral-status
│   ├─ Epistemic-role
│   │   ├─ Not-inferred
│   │   ├─ Not-derived
│   │   └─ Justification-termination
│   └─ Functional-role
│       └─ Ruler-not-measurement
│
├─ MODE-OF-APPLICATION
│   ├─ Not-inferential
│   │   ├─ No-calculation
│   │   ├─ No-syllogism
│   │   └─ No-regress
│   ├─ Rational-intuition
│   │   ├─ Immediate-apprehension
│   │   ├─ Category-recognition
│   │   └─ Virtue-vice-indifferent-distinction
│   └─ Perception-analogy
│       └─ As-perception-distinguishes-color
│
├─ CONSTRAINT-OF-REALITY
│   ├─ Objectivity
│   │   ├─ Not-subjective
│   │   ├─ Not-conventional
│   │   └─ Not-private
│   ├─ Moral-realism
│   │   ├─ Categories-are-real
│   │   └─ Not-preferences-or-feelings
│   └─ Necessity
│       ├─ Without-realism-coherence-only
│       └─ Without-realism-no-testing
│
├─ ACT-OF-TESTING
│   ├─ Three-constraints
│   │   ├─ Foundation-axioms-of-good-evil
│   │   ├─ Recognition-correct-classification
│   │   └─ Reality-correspondence
│   ├─ Possible-failures
│   │   ├─ Factual-error
│   │   ├─ Evaluative-error
│   │   └─ Mixed-error
│   └─ Stoic-example
│       ├─ Harm-claimed
│       ├─ Only-vice-harms
│       ├─ Insult-equals-external
│       └─ Claim-fails
│
├─ POSSIBLE-RESULTS
│   ├─ True
│   │   ├─ Matches-foundation
│   │   ├─ Correctly-classified
│   │   └─ Corresponds-to-reality
│   ├─ False
│   │   ├─ Fails-foundation
│   │   ├─ Misclassified
│   │   └─ Fails-correspondence
│   └─ Undetermined
│       ├─ Insufficient-information
│       └─ Suspension-maintained
│
└─ CENTRAL-FUNCTION
    ├─ Not-psychological
    │   ├─ Not-reflection
    │   ├─ Not-introspection
    │   └─ Not-moralizing
    ├─ Ontological-role
    │   ├─ Claim-measured-against-reality-structure
    │   ├─ Representation-confronts-represented
    │   └─ Truth-made-visible
    └─ Summary
        └─ World-answers-mind

5. DECISION

DECISION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-CHOICE
│   ├─ Preconditions
│   │   ├─ Impression-received
│   │   ├─ Separated-from-self
│   │   ├─ Suspended
│   │   └─ Examined
│   ├─ Nature-of-act
│   │   ├─ Candidacy-resolution
│   │   ├─ Indeterminacy-termination
│   │   └─ Possibility-to-actuality
│   └─ Role
│       └─ Freedom-becomes-act
│
├─ ACTUALIZATION-OF-FREEDOM
│   ├─ Genuine-alternatives
│   │   ├─ Assent
│   │   ├─ Refusal
│   │   └─ Suspension
│   ├─ Not-determined-by
│   │   ├─ Impression
│   │   ├─ Past-states
│   │   └─ Psychological-condition
│   └─ Ontological-claim
│       └─ Choice-introduced-into-world
│
├─ CONSTRAINT-OF-TRUTH
│   ├─ Governing-criterion
│   │   └─ Correspondence
│   ├─ Appropriateness-rules
│   │   ├─ If-matches-assent
│   │   ├─ If-fails-refusal
│   │   └─ If-indeterminate-suspend
│   └─ Not
│       ├─ Not-pragmatic
│       ├─ Not-emotional
│       └─ Not-cultural
│
├─ STRUCTURE-OF-ACT
│   ├─ What-is-known
│   │   ├─ Impression-claim
│   │   ├─ Standards
│   │   └─ Match-or-mismatch
│   ├─ What-remains
│   │   └─ Whether-self-aligns
│   └─ Transition
│       └─ Knowledge-to-character
│
├─ ENTRY-OF-RESPONSIBILITY
│   ├─ Basis
│   │   ├─ Authorship
│   │   ├─ Could-have-done-otherwise
│   │   ├─ Knew-what-was-true
│   │   └─ Not-compelled
│   ├─ Imputability
│   │   └─ Act-originates-in-agent
│   └─ Moral-status
│       ├─ Error-blameworthy
│       └─ Virtue-praiseworthy
│
├─ POSSIBILITY-OF-ERROR
│   ├─ Freedom-includes
│   │   ├─ Ability-to-assent-falsely
│   │   ├─ Ability-to-refuse-truly
│   │   └─ Ability-to-ignore-knowledge
│   ├─ Not-defect
│   │   └─ Authorship-condition
│   └─ Dependence-chain
│       └─ Error-authorship-responsibility-virtue
│
├─ OUTCOME
│   ├─ True-assent-virtue
│   ├─ False-assent-error
│   └─ Suspension-inquiry-continues
│
└─ CENTRAL-ACT
    ├─ Not
    │   ├─ Not-expression
    │   ├─ Not-regulation
    │   └─ Not-coping
    ├─ Ontological-role
    │   ├─ Truth-or-falsehood-introduction
    │   ├─ Self-becomes-what-knows
    │   └─ Freedom-becomes-deed
    └─ Summary
        └─ Agent-enters-causal-order-as-author


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