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Sunday, January 25, 2026

MAKING CORRECT USE OF IMPRESSIONS: FORMAL MODEL COMPLETE FIVE-STEP ARCHITECTURE

 

MAKING CORRECT USE OF IMPRESSIONS: FORMAL MODEL
COMPLETE FIVE-STEP ARCHITECTURE


1. IMPRESSION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-IMPACT
│   ├─ Battering-ram-arrival
│   ├─ Pre-thought-assertion
│   ├─ Pre-pause-claim
│   ├─ Pre-philosophy-case
│   ├─ Not-psychology
│   └─ Ontology-structural-nature
│
├─ TRIPLE-ACTION-OF-PRESENTATION
│   ├─ APPEARS
│   │   ├─ Event-entry
│   │   ├─ Not-neutral-data
│   │   ├─ Formatted-proposition
│   │   ├─ Already-interpreted
│   │   └─ Already-claim-formed
│   ├─ ASSERTS
│   │   ├─ States-what-is
│   │   ├─ Not-suggests
│   │   ├─ Not-proposes
│   │   ├─ Declares-certainty
│   │   └─ Grammatical-structure-certainty
│   └─ DEMANDS
│       ├─ Immediate-acceptance
│       ├─ Immediate-reaction
│       ├─ Wants-assent
│       ├─ Magnet-pull-belief
│       └─ Agreement-not-acknowledgment
│
├─ JURIDICAL-STRUCTURE
│   ├─ Plaintiff-impression
│   ├─ Court-of-prohairesis
│   ├─ Claiming-damages
│   └─ Demanding-judgment
│
├─ CORRESPONDENCE-ALREADY-OPERATING
│   ├─ Not-feeling-report
│   ├─ Objective-reality-claim
│   ├─ Event-happened-claim
│   ├─ Property-exists-claim
│   ├─ Moral-fact-claim
│   ├─ Pre-packaged-correspondence
│   ├─ Embodies-correspondence
│   ├─ "I-match-what-is"
│   ├─ Native-structure
│   ├─ Truth-apt-from-arrival
│   └─ Already-claim-to-represent
│
├─ MORAL-REALISM-ACTIVATES
│   ├─ Not-merely-descriptive
│   ├─ Soaked-in-evaluation
│   ├─ Objective-shameful-claim
│   ├─ Real-harm-claim
│   ├─ Actual-injustice-claim
│   ├─ Not-feelings-report
│   ├─ Moral-properties-report
│   ├─ Track-objective-value
│   ├─ "This-IS-bad"
│   ├─ Not-"seems-bad-to-me"
│   ├─ Perceptual-level-realism
│   └─ Pre-philosophy-good-evil-detection
│
├─ PRETENSE-OF-AUTHORITY
│   ├─ No-"unverified-claim"-sign
│   ├─ Judicial-robes-wearing
│   ├─ Reality-voice-speaking
│   ├─ Seems-true
│   ├─ Seems-important
│   ├─ Seems-actionable
│   ├─ Phenomenological-authority
│   ├─ No-truth-argument
│   ├─ Self-presents-as-true
│   ├─ No-belief-request
│   └─ Assumes-belief
│
├─ TAXONOMY-OF-ERROR
│   ├─ FALSE-FACT
│   │   ├─ Event-claim-false
│   │   └─ Requires-correspondence-theory
│   ├─ FALSE-VALUE
│   │   ├─ Moral-claim-false
│   │   └─ Requires-moral-realism
│   └─ MIXED-ERROR
│       ├─ Fact-true
│       ├─ Value-false
│       └─ Requires-internal-external-distinction
│
├─ WHY-PAUSE-MUST-EXIST
│   ├─ Not-breathing-exercise
│   ├─ Act-of-jurisdiction
│   ├─ Prohairesis-asserting-authority
│   ├─ Suspends-assumed-authority
│   ├─ Separates-factual-evaluative
│   ├─ Tests-both-against-reality
│   ├─ Without-pause-reflex-assent
│   ├─ With-pause-judgment-assent
│   └─ Transforms-reaction-to-rational-action
│
└─ CENTRAL-RECOGNITION
    ├─ Not-innocent-sensation
    ├─ Complex-philosophical-entity
    ├─ Simultaneous-fact-value-claims
    ├─ Demands-immediate-assent
    ├─ Pretense-of-authority
    ├─ Six-commitments-structural-preconditions
    ├─ Not-scaffolding-around-neutral
    ├─ Truth-claims-with-evaluative-force
    ├─ Experience-already-philosophically-loaded
    ├─ Already-metaphysical-claims
    ├─ Not-philosophize-but-adjudicate
    ├─ Interrupt-automatic-authority
    ├─ Reassert-rational-jurisdiction
    ├─ Prosecutor-making-case
    ├─ You-are-judge
    ├─ Not-like-case
    ├─ Not-persuasive-case
    ├─ Corresponds-to-reality
    └─ Fundamental-unit-moral-universe

2. RECOGNITION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-SEPARATION
│   ├─ Not-announces-as-impression
│   ├─ Arrives-as-world
│   ├─ What-is-not-about-what-is
│   ├─ Properties-of-situation
│   ├─ Not-assertions-of-mind
│   ├─ Appearance-is-belief
│   ├─ Identity-broken
│   ├─ Reality-to-representation-reclassified
│   ├─ Not-reflection-afterward
│   ├─ Not-psychological-distance
│   ├─ Ontological-operation
│   └─ Restores-world-representation-self-distinction
│
├─ TRIPLE-DISTINCTION
│   ├─ External-event
│   ├─ Impression-mental-event
│   ├─ Prohairesis-rational-faculty
│   ├─ Not-conceptual-differences-in-kind
│   ├─ Without-no-observer-only-experience
│   ├─ No-one-to-whom-only-appearance
│   ├─ No-standpoint-for-evaluation
│   ├─ Nothing-stands-over-against
│   └─ Subject-object-structure-restored
│
├─ DUALIST-OPERATION
│   ├─ Not-psychological-metaphysical
│   ├─ Mind-not-identical-representations
│   ├─ Representations-not-identical-world
│   ├─ Prohairesis-distinct-locus
│   ├─ Not-function-of-impression
│   ├─ Not-product-of-event
│   ├─ Epictetus-direct-address
│   ├─ "You-are-impression"
│   ├─ "Not-what-you-appear"
│   ├─ Ontological-status-declaration
│   ├─ Impression-as-object
│   ├─ Self-as-subject
│   └─ Reclaims-position-as-one-to-whom-appears
│
├─ REALITY-TO-REPRESENTATION
│   ├─ Before-not-feels-like-claim
│   ├─ Feels-like-state-of-affairs
│   ├─ Not-true-or-false-assertion
│   ├─ Appears-as-condition-obtains
│   ├─ Not-judgment-but-feature
│   ├─ Content-same-role-changes
│   ├─ "This-is-so" to "this-claims-this-is-so"
│   ├─ No-longer-world
│   ├─ Report-about-world
│   ├─ Decisive-transformation
│   ├─ Nothing-added
│   ├─ Nothing-removed
│   └─ Category-changes
│
├─ CORRESPONDENCE-BECOMES-POSSIBLE
│   ├─ Representation-not-reality
│   ├─ May-match-or-not
│   ├─ May-be-true-or-false
│   ├─ May-succeed-or-fail
│   ├─ Factually-and-normatively
│   ├─ Before-nothing-to-test
│   ├─ After-can-correspond-or-fail
│   ├─ Not-tests-impression
│   ├─ Makes-testing-possible
│   ├─ Not-judges
│   └─ Creates-judgment-conditions
│
├─ OPENING-OF-SPACE
│   ├─ Creates-space-where-none
│   ├─ Not-temporal-logical
│   ├─ Between-appearance-assent
│   ├─ Between-representation-belief
│   ├─ Between-stimulus-judgment
│   ├─ Without-flows-directly
│   ├─ Automatic-belief
│   ├─ With-belief-optional
│   ├─ Condition-for-freedom
│   ├─ Prevents-automatic-becoming
│   └─ Being-carried-vs-standing-in-relation
│
└─ CENTRAL-RECOGNITION
    ├─ Not-awareness
    ├─ Not-introspection
    ├─ Not-metacognition
    ├─ Distinguishes-self-from-representations
    ├─ Becomes-agent
    ├─ World-not-simply-appears
    ├─ Can-be-correctly-incorrectly-represented
    ├─ Impression-loses-reality-status
    ├─ Becomes-claim-about-reality
    ├─ Loss-births-judgment
    ├─ Loss-births-freedom
    ├─ Loss-births-responsibility
    ├─ Gate-between-impression-assent
    └─ Condition-for-everything-follows

3. PAUSE
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-SUSPENSION
│   ├─ Not-merely-presents
│   ├─ Presses-toward-assent
│   ├─ Seeks-to-become-belief
│   ├─ Completes-automatically
│   ├─ Prevention-point
│   ├─ Not-delay
│   ├─ Not-indecision
│   ├─ Not-confusion
│   ├─ Suspension-of-assent-itself
│   ├─ Present-not-endorsed
│   ├─ Movement-held-open
│   ├─ Not-completed
│   └─ Form-freedom-takes
│
├─ INDETERMINACY-OF-ASSENT
│   ├─ If-determined-no-pause
│   ├─ No-suspension-only-latency
│   ├─ No-interruption-only-sequence
│   ├─ No-freedom-only-causation
│   ├─ More-than-one-outcome-possible
│   ├─ Impression-not-fix-response
│   ├─ Prior-state-not-fix-response
│   ├─ Future-not-in-past
│   ├─ Not-ignorance-ontological-openness
│   ├─ Experiential-manifestation
│   ├─ Libertarian-freedom
│   ├─ Not-necessitated-by-prior
│   ├─ Essential-pause
│   ├─ Without-indeterminacy-no-pause
│   └─ Without-pause-no-agency
│
├─ DOMAIN-OF-PAUSE
│   ├─ Not-in-body
│   ├─ Body-reacts-physical-law
│   ├─ Heart-rate-muscles-neural
│   ├─ Pause-not-there
│   ├─ Occurs-in-prohairesis
│   ├─ Rational-faculty
│   ├─ Not-physical-event-rational
│   ├─ Not-neural-configuration-stance
│   ├─ Not-brain-state-suspension
│   ├─ If-brain-state-determined
│   ├─ Link-in-chain-not-break
│   ├─ Not-governed-physical-law
│   └─ Stimulus-not-necessitate-response
│
├─ LIVED-STRUCTURE
│   ├─ Physical-body-automatic
│   ├─ Mental-impression-arises
│   ├─ Then-pause-occurs
│   ├─ In-prohairesis
│   ├─ Neither-accepted-rejected
│   ├─ Held-suspended-present
│   ├─ Without-endorsement
│   ├─ Withholding-of-assent
│   ├─ Not-feeling
│   ├─ Not-mood
│   └─ Not-temporal-gap
│
├─ BOTH-COMMITMENTS-NECESSARY
│   ├─ WITHOUT-LIBERTARIAN-FREEDOM
│   │   ├─ Pause-impossible
│   │   ├─ Outcome-determined
│   │   └─ Illusion-feeling-delay
│   ├─ WITHOUT-SUBSTANCE-DUALISM
│   │   ├─ Nowhere-to-occur
│   │   ├─ Collapse-neural-processing
│   │   └─ Governed-physical-law
│   └─ PAUSE-EXISTS-BECAUSE
│       ├─ Assent-not-determined
│       └─ Prohairesis-not-physical
│
└─ CENTRAL-PAUSE
    ├─ Not-technique
    ├─ Not-strategy
    ├─ Not-psychological-trick
    ├─ Causal-momentum-interrupted
    ├─ Rational-agency-begins
    ├─ Impression-not-destiny
    ├─ Becomes-proposal
    ├─ Self-not-carried
    ├─ Becomes-responsible
    └─ Freedom-becomes-real

4. EXAMINATION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-TESTING
│   ├─ Separated-held-suspended
│   ├─ Stands-as-claim
│   ├─ Not-reality-claim-about
│   ├─ Measured-claim
│   ├─ Not-invent-standards
│   ├─ Not-negotiate-meaning
│   ├─ Not-weigh-preferences
│   ├─ Applies-criteria-in-place
│   ├─ Not-deliberation-want
│   └─ Determination-what-is
│
├─ BEDROCK-OF-JUDGMENT
│   ├─ Not-derived-from-beliefs
│   ├─ Terminate-justification
│   ├─ Virtue-only-good
│   ├─ Vice-only-evil
│   ├─ Everything-else-indifferent
│   ├─ Only-up-to-us-moral
│   ├─ Not-hypotheses
│   ├─ Not-conclusions
│   ├─ Conditions-for-reasoning
│   ├─ Function-as-axioms
│   ├─ Ruler-not-measured
│   └─ Without-no-test-only-compare
│
├─ MODE-OF-APPLICATION
│   ├─ Not-inferential
│   ├─ Not-compute
│   ├─ Recognizes-as-such
│   ├─ Not-derive
│   ├─ Apprehends-directly
│   ├─ Not-sensory-not-emotional
│   ├─ Rational-immediate
│   ├─ Direct-apprehension-category
│   ├─ Virtue-vice-indifferent
│   ├─ Perception-distinguishes-colors
│   ├─ Rational-intuition-moral-kinds
│   ├─ No-regress
│   ├─ No-mediation
│   ├─ No-calculation
│   └─ Recognition
│
├─ CONSTRAINT-OF-REALITY
│   ├─ Not-private
│   ├─ Not-subjective
│   ├─ Not-conventional
│   ├─ Not-preferences
│   ├─ Not-feelings
│   ├─ Not-cultural-agreements
│   ├─ Objective-features-moral-reality
│   ├─ Either-corresponds-or-not
│   ├─ Falls-in-category-or-not
│   ├─ Fact-of-matter
│   ├─ Without-realism-collapse
│   ├─ Coherence-comfort-agreement
│   ├─ No-longer-testing-harmonizing
│   └─ Truth-not-negotiable
│
├─ ACT-OF-TESTING
│   ├─ THREE-CONSTRAINTS
│   │   ├─ Against-foundation
│   │   ├─ By-recognition
│   │   └─ Against-reality
│   ├─ Conforms-to-axioms
│   ├─ Correctly-classified
│   ├─ Corresponds-to-case
│   ├─ Matches-claim-stands
│   ├─ Fails-claim-false
│   ├─ Factually-or-evaluatively
│   ├─ Foundation-only-vice-harms
│   ├─ Recognition-sees-external
│   ├─ Reality-confirms-no-harm
│   ├─ Claim-fails
│   ├─ No-calculation
│   ├─ No-feeling-consulted
│   ├─ No-preference-weighed
│   └─ Simply-not-match
│
├─ POSSIBLE-RESULTS
│   ├─ Not-always-acceptance-rejection
│   ├─ Insufficient-information
│   ├─ Suspension-not-decision
│   ├─ Determination-under-constraint
│   ├─ True-false-undetermined
│   └─ Nothing-else-possible
│
└─ CENTRAL-FUNCTION
    ├─ Not-reflection
    ├─ Not-moralizing
    ├─ Not-introspection
    ├─ Measures-against-foundation
    ├─ Against-objective-reality
    ├─ Representation-confronts-claimed
    ├─ Truth-becomes-visible
    └─ World-answers-mind

5. DECISION
│
├─ MOMENT-OF-CHOICE
│   ├─ Received-separated-suspended-examined
│   ├─ No-longer-reality
│   ├─ No-longer-unquestioned-claim
│   ├─ Determinate-candidate
│   ├─ Assent-or-refusal
│   ├─ Candidacy-resolved
│   ├─ Not-continuation-examination
│   ├─ Termination-examination
│   ├─ Indeterminacy-to-determination
│   ├─ Possibility-to-actuality
│   └─ Freedom-capacity-to-act
│
├─ ACTUALIZATION-OF-FREEDOM
│   ├─ More-than-one-outcome-possible
│   ├─ Impression-not-necessitate
│   ├─ Past-not-necessitate
│   ├─ Psychological-not-necessitate
│   ├─ THREE-ALTERNATIVES
│   │   ├─ Assent
│   │   ├─ Refusal
│   │   └─ Suspension
│   ├─ None-forced
│   ├─ None-excluded
│   ├─ None-illusory
│   ├─ Not-freedom-from-coercion
│   ├─ Freedom-from-determination
│   ├─ Not-produced-by-world
│   └─ Introduced-into-world
│
├─ CONSTRAINT-OF-TRUTH
│   ├─ Not-in-vacuum
│   ├─ Constrained-by-reality
│   ├─ Criterion-correspondence
│   ├─ Matches-assent-appropriate
│   ├─ Fails-match-refusal-appropriate
│   ├─ Cannot-determine-suspension-appropriate
│   ├─ Not-pragmatic-emotional-cultural
│   ├─ Not-benefit-comfort-approval
│   ├─ About-alignment
│   ├─ Not-assertion-will-over-world
│   └─ Alignment-will-with-what-is
│
├─ STRUCTURE-OF-ACT
│   ├─ Knows-what-claims
│   ├─ Knows-what-standards
│   ├─ Knows-whether-matches
│   ├─ Nothing-remains-discover
│   ├─ Nothing-remains-calculate
│   ├─ Nothing-remains-test
│   ├─ Remains-whether-align-or-diverge
│   └─ Knowledge-becomes-character
│
├─ ENTRY-OF-RESPONSIBILITY
│   ├─ Not-from-consequences
│   ├─ From-authorship
│   ├─ Imputable-could-choose-otherwise
│   ├─ Knew-what-true
│   ├─ Not-compelled
│   ├─ Owns-act-originates-in-agent
│   ├─ Error-blameworthy-from-origin
│   ├─ Virtue-praiseworthy-from-origin
│   └─ Self-answerable-for-itself
│
├─ POSSIBILITY-OF-ERROR
│   ├─ Freedom-choose-truly
│   ├─ Includes-freedom-choose-falsely
│   ├─ Can-assent-not-match
│   ├─ Can-refuse-what-does
│   ├─ Can-ignore-what-knows
│   ├─ Not-defect-in-freedom
│   ├─ Condition-of-freedom
│   ├─ Without-error-no-authorship
│   ├─ Without-authorship-no-responsibility
│   └─ Without-responsibility-no-virtue
│
├─ OUTCOME
│   ├─ Aligns-correct-judgment-virtue
│   ├─ Diverges-false-judgment-error
│   ├─ Suspension-inquiry-continues
│   └─ Nothing-else-possible
│
└─ CENTRAL-ACT
    ├─ Not-expression
    ├─ Not-regulation
    ├─ Not-coping
    ├─ Introduces-truth-or-falsehood
    ├─ Self-becomes-what-knows
    └─ Freedom-becomes-deed
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