The Six Commitments as One Architecture — Mind Map

 

The Six Commitments as One Architecture — Mind Map

The Six Commitments as One Architecture — A Short Demonstration of Their Integration

Theoretical foundations: Grant C. Sterling (Eastern Illinois University). Analysis, synthesis, and instrument architecture: Dave Kelly. Prose rendering: Claude. 2026.

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SIX-COMMITMENTS-AS-ONE-ARCHITECTURE
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├─ 1. SUBSTANCE-DUALISM
│   ├─ Role-In-Circuit
│   │   ├─ Supplies-the-agent
│   │   └─ Standing-point-apart-from-impression
│   ├─ Sterling-Anchor
│   │   ├─ One-of-the-few-remaining-substance-dualists
│   │   └─ Person-identified-with-soul
│   └─ Lock-To-Free-Will
│       └─ Domain-without-act-cannot-examine
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├─ 2. LIBERTARIAN-FREE-WILL
│   ├─ Role-In-Circuit
│   │   ├─ Makes-examination-a-genuine-act
│   │   └─ Holds-the-gap-open
│   ├─ Sterling-Anchor
│   │   ├─ Assent-as-origination
│   │   └─ Could-withhold-could-affirm
│   └─ Lock-To-Dualism
│       └─ Act-needs-a-locus-to-originate-from
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├─ 3. CORRESPONDENCE-THEORY
│   ├─ Role-In-Circuit
│   │   ├─ Makes-claim-true-or-false
│   │   └─ Impression-capable-of-being-wrong
│   ├─ Sterling-Anchor
│   │   ├─ Correspondence-of-thought-with-world
│   │   └─ True-for-everyone-not-true-for-me
│   └─ Lock-To-Moral-Realism
│       └─ Needs-a-reality-to-correspond-to
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├─ 4. MORAL-REALISM
│   ├─ Role-In-Circuit
│   │   ├─ Supplies-real-moral-order
│   │   └─ Gives-the-fact-to-be-wrong-about
│   ├─ Sterling-Anchor
│   │   ├─ Fact-is-a-way-the-universe-is
│   │   └─ Moral-facts-ground-moral-truths
│   └─ Lock-To-Intuitionism
│       └─ Real-order-must-be-reachable
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├─ 5. ETHICAL-INTUITIONISM
│   ├─ Role-In-Circuit
│   │   ├─ Gives-direct-access
│   │   └─ Apprehends-virtue-as-only-good
│   ├─ Sterling-Anchor
│   │   ├─ Self-evident-truths-apprehended-directly
│   │   └─ Math-faculty-grasps-moral-truths
│   └─ Lock-To-Realism
│       └─ Access-needs-a-real-object
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├─ 6. FOUNDATIONALISM
│   ├─ Role-In-Circuit
│   │   ├─ Structures-the-correction
│   │   └─ Traces-error-to-the-root
│   ├─ Sterling-Anchor
│   │   ├─ Axioms-postulated-theorems-demonstrated
│   │   └─ Euclidean-geometry-as-model
│   └─ Lock-To-Intuitionism
│       └─ Gives-apprehended-order-its-shape
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└─ 7. THE-CLOSED-CIRCUIT
    ├─ Single-Act-Of-Examination
    │   ├─ Impression-arrives-with-a-claim
    │   └─ All-six-operate-at-once
    ├─ Joint-Necessity
    │   ├─ Remove-one-brings-down-whole
    │   └─ Cannot-be-traded-singly
    └─ Attribution
        ├─ Sterling-states-each-of-six
        └─ Corpus-demonstrates-the-integration

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Theoretical foundations: Grant C. Sterling (Eastern Illinois University). Analysis, synthesis, and instrument architecture: Dave Kelly. Prose rendering: Claude. 2026.