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Critical concepts and best-known countable philosophies
Final live version of this section: Philosophical Research:Items 1 to 1,000

1. process of Being
2. sea of free-floating entities
3. countable entity
4. countable concept
5. countable object
6. spatially-unique object / unique object
7. spacetime-unique event / unique event
8. series of unique events / timeline of unique events
9. [S0] series of non-unique events / repeatable historical pattern
10. repeating process
11. material-history -> the series of physical events that defines what any particular object or population is; the topic historical materialism studies
12. set of all objects in material reality / Facticity (MDem)
13. countable graph of people / countable set of connected people / countable community
14. countable body of claims / countable philosophy -> particular list of axioms or beliefs which is to be shared by some particular group of individuals; intended to be used to define the term "Social-Philosophical System"
15. countable philosophical framework / philosophy not considered an ideology
16. countable ideology -> the major difference between a countable philosophical framework and a countable ideology is that a countable ideology can be realized into a new Social-Philosophical-Material System distinguishable from other kinds of societies in a countable way; some kind of "countable Culture" or countable political system with its own individual identity and name (USSR, Spain) as well as perhaps its own repeatable but fully distinguishable category (Marxism, Liberalism) is produced
17. revolutionary event / event which creates new regime with new population structure
18. countable religion or spirituality
19. historical account -> subset of: non-fictional work
20. work -> subset of: countable object
21. non-fictional work -> subset of: work
22. fictional work -> subset of: work
23. mythical or legendary work -> subset of: work
24. religious text -> subset of: mythical or legendary work
25. sign / signifier-signified pair
26. signifier
27. signified
28. signifier equation / sign containing signs
29. ontology / graph of associations / graph made of signifier equations
30. ontological model / model of concept or process / オントロジー
31. falsifiable model
32. unfalsifiable model
33. [S0] conspiracy theory / model unsubstantiated by all current knowledge / model proposing hidden individual or group agents with bad motivations
34. [S0] religious cosmology
35. philosophical metaphysics model
36. fictional factical system / fictional world or setting rules construct / fictional physics model / video game physics equation
37. non-fictional physics model
38. falsified or unsubstantiated physics model
39. current physics model
40. civilizational shape (model) / ideological nested-graph model / metaphysical society model (Existentialism) / Particle Theory (MDem) / Bauplan (MDem) / Philosophical System (MDem)
41. [S] nihilism
42. early existentialism / existentialism / existence-philosophy / Existenzphilosophie / existentialist tradition
43. [S] absurdism
44. rationalization for the continued connection of a graph of people / rationalization with a partisan character / rationalization based on existence of in-group separate from out-group
45. logical proof / proof in mathematics / formal logic argument
46. philosophical argument or thought experiment
47. religious apologetic -> subset of: philosophical argument or thought experiment
48. anecdotal argument / argument from Lived Experience
49. observation / original research statement with associated nickel Item or link
50. philosophy or science term
51. [S0] literary motif
52. historical time period
53. historical civilization / unique feudal order / unique dynasty / unique empire / unique republican period
54. unique named relationship / Group Subject (MDem) / relationship / connection / pairing
55. graph theory
56. game theory
57. social sciences
58. population science
59. mathematics
60. field of science
61. life sciences / ecology / biology
62. natural sciences
63. physics
64. astrophysics / physical cosmology
65. quantum physics / quantum mechanics research
66. general relativity
67. special relativity -> subset of: general relativity
68. string theory -> unsubstantiated but awfully neat at the time
69. quantum field theory -> substantiated
70. analytic philosophy
71. field of study diagramming signs and signifiers / semiotics (generic) / structuralist linguistics (generic) / meta-ontology (generic)
72. phenomenology / Husserl's phenomenology (Existentialism)
73. Existentialist-Structuralist tradition -> note, early-existentialism is already Q42
74. structuralism
75. poststructuralism
76. psychoanalysis / Freudian psychoanalysis (generic) / Lacanian psychoanalysis (generic)
77. schizoanalysis
78. alterity theories / postcolonial theories (theories about how colonialism is a prejudice about a group of people in someone's mind)
79. post-Marxism
80. continental philosophy
81. Materialism
82. mechanical Materialism / mechanical philosophy
83. dialectical materialism / diamat
84. historical materialism (specific-sense) / histmat
85. Marxism believing itself to be uncountable / generic Marxism
86. existential materialism / exmat
87. Idealism
88. named nationalism / named fascism / named Identitarianism / nationalism distinguished into cultural category / uniquely Spanish nationalism / uniquely Japanese nationalism / uniquely United-States nationalism
89. spacetime-unique ideology / named ideology -> an "S2" style ideology with a definite Particle Theory / Bauplan, or at least a specific series of axioms; an instance of an ideology as opposed to a pure set category having no particular beliefs; in religion, a denominational religion as opposed to an umbrella religious category
90. named Marxism / Marxism differentiated for country conditions / Marxist sect -> save the concept of named Trotskyisms for the 4000s range
91. named republicanism which is not Marxism / named Liberalism -> Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson are examples
92. meta-Marxism
93. argument for general-sense historical materialism -> argument for the presence of semi-predictable cause and effect in history, for time itself as a physical process made of repeated physical patterns, and for basic kinds of predictable patterns within populations and societies. basic kinds of arguments which do not bring up class subpopulations but can serve as a foundation for these kinds of analyses
94. claim X is a case of Y / claim something is a case of something else
95. claim X is an instance of Y ideology / claim something is an instance of an ideology / claim something is a case of an ideology
96. reactions journal / reactions file / reactions blog / media thoughts journal -> a file or physical page, or series of microblog posts, etc. where you write down your impressions of something either in terms of emotion or some level of analysis of how or why the thing you're looking at is the way it is. apparently this is a big novel concept to some people that they have to learn at school? for me I learned it from people posting reactions to things on Twitter. and then I just started progressively finding deeper insights on things the more of them I did until I eventually turned into a low-tier Marxist theorist. now I've put up this wiki and begun to encourage people to put these things into thesis portals. don't let the grandiose name turn you away, you can make one for all your reactions to cartoons, or anything. a "thesis" on some serious philosophical theory is just what the very top fraction of thesis portals turn into.
97. data Entity / Wikibase Entity
98. meta-philosophy (field)
99. meta-ontology meta-ontology
100. source -> work functioning as ontology example or ontology description for larger work or later work relative to earlier work; ontology graph taking the form of work
101. printed source / text archived online
102. audiovisual source
103. interactive source
104. non-interactive recording of interactive source
105. commentary on interactive source
106. false interactive source -> Petscop, 3D workers' island, Homestuck
107. book / book which exists in print form -> book - conveyed through construction having parts - volume
108. book compilation
9999. book in book compilation
109. multi-volume book / multi-volume reference text
110. course textbook / college textbook / grade school textbook
112. book chapter / article compiled in book
113. foreword, preface, or introduction
114. article / short story
115. article serialized in magazine or newspaper
116. article serialized in theoretical journal
117. article serialized on blog or substack
118. article serialized in online archive
119. article on miscellaneous personal homepage
120. article serialized in unknown printed source
121. article or chapter in book compilation
122. article, poem, or story compiled in anthology
123. transcribed speech
124. transcribed interview
125. court transcript
126. bop entry
127. bop scrap
128. bop revision entry
129. unfinished book chapter serialized as bop scrap
130. book chapter serialized as bop scrap
131. nameless publisher / independently published
132. general publishing entity
133. publishing organization / propaganda group
134. academic or theoretical journal
135. online book or article archive / not magazine or journal
136. master's thesis
137. non-serialized comic / graphic novel
138. serialized comic
139. multimedia serialized comic
140. animated series / anime / cartoon
141. song with lyrics
142. poem
143. computer or console game
144. short story
145. novel
146. novel in multi-volume series
147. novel in multi-volume series adapted into comic / Scholastic graphic novel
148. online video
149. YouTube video
150. PeerTube video
151. thing part of finite numbered series of things / thing part of collectors' index -> collectors' indices have serialized parts, similar to episodes or chapters; technically, a wikibase Item is an instance of this
152. citation in local Item / work described in Item -> source - conveyed through model having parts - local Item
153. citation in qualifiers / work described in qualifiers -> source - conveyed through model having parts - set of qualifiers
154. citation in external Item / citation in external wikibase / work described at external data item / work described in wikidata Item
155. citation in external wiki / work described or anchored in external wiki article
156. citation buried in other work / work unknown or unconfirmed but referenced in work -> source - conveyed through model having parts - citation
157. video described in qualifiers -> online video - conveyed through model having parts - work described in qualifiers
158. ??
159. numbered series of things / finite numbered collectors' index of things / spatial map of things where all the things have numbers -> equally applies to an index of TV show episodes, a list of wikidata Items, a list of Pokémon, and the periodic table of elements.
160. text / written work (book; story; article; web page) / visual work (comic; animated series) / aural work (audiobook; podcast) -> I think the major thing that this entry excludes is compilations of things. like, a magazine with many articles is not a text, although it is a periodical issue and by other definitions a work.
161. part (book division)
162. ??
163. serialized part -> numbered part which is syndicated or expected to release periodically
164. non-serialized part -> discrete part which may be released in an all-at-once or timeless manner
165. volume -> physical printed book, or book-sized division. I'll say this doesn't refer to science periodical volumes unless they're physically collected into a self-contained book you can browse or something vaguely resembling one.
166. chapter (non-serialized part) -> in reference to novels.
167. episode / chapter (serialized part) -> in reference to works that are entirely planned for serialization, like manga, or some prose stories submitted to magazines which were not treated as standard novels when published later. personally I'd take the bold stance that there's no serious difference between serialized chapters of printed things and episodes of voiced things. but, this Item will have both sense-labels to minimize confusion.
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173. unit for constructing works / unit for constructing texts / unit of work or series construction / serialization unit or unit of work construction -> note that this one is so general that "text" can be a unit for constructing texts, although "volume" or "episode" could also be.
174. atom-like entity -> an atom-like entity is a mostly-indivisible unit which contains the capacity for particular patterns when combined with particular other atom-like entities. a chemical element is the prototypical example: two hydrogens and one oxygen form water. but one hypothesis I am trying to investigate is the possibility that individuals of particular ideologies are atom-like entities, and when put together in various "compounds" they form specific ideologies. I feel like there is some remote possibility that one day there could just be a periodic table of ideologies that is as prosaic and numerical as the study of chemical elements and chemical compounds.
     an atom-like entity is not an entity that can be considered in total isolation from all others akin to a helium atom. I really don't like models like Rothenberg's that imply that, because not even chemistry works that way. chemistry may be reductionist, but the predictable emergences from the elements are the whole study of chemistry.
175. ??
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178. wiki page -> non-serialized part; text not in the form of volume. move these two to later number?
179. MediaWiki category -> non-serialized part which clusters wiki pages
180. analyzing a text for motifs -> there are different connotations to this. Freudians do this because they think motifs reveal the rules of psychohistory. schizoanalysts do this because they think motifs reveal the rules of finding Freedom. Marxists do this because they think many motifs come from the rules of populations and material-history.
181. solid phase
182. liquid phase
183. gas phase -> may be shown as either STM swatch or ES swatch, due to how I like to use "behaving like a room of helium atoms" as a metaphor for Existentialism.
184. plasma phase -> a form of matter where atoms do not remain neutrally-charged and can create electric arcs passing on electrons from atom to atom.
185. quark-gluon plasma -> exotic phase which usually doesn't exist under the current conditions of the universe, which push these particles to stick together.
186. supersolid / Bose-Einstein Condensate
187. phase change
188. phase of matter / non-classical state of matter -> practically, phases of matter are just a continuous way of describing states of matter. they can capture the edge cases like hot ice, liquid crystal, etc.
189. state of matter / classical state or phase of matter
190. software package
191. UNIX-style package / UNIX-style program
192. Free Software package
193. nonfree software package
194. Debian package
195. Arch package
196. Linux package / Linux program
197. Lisp module / asdf system / .asd system
198. emacs package
199. MediaWiki extension
200. phase diagram (chemistry)
201. reading list / unique reading list / unique list of thematically-related works -> "unique reading list" sounds beyond weird as natural language, but it sounds perfectly logical to me after thinking in the language of linked concepts
202. chemistry
203. organic chemistry
204. chemical substance
205. chemical element
206. chemical compound
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210. four elements (alchemy) -> these oddly mirror the four states of matter, especially if you count fire as a partial plasma. it's like, a long time ago people thought chemical substances were made out of hot, cold, wet, and dry, and the next level up was solid, liquid, gas, and bright burning things (fire, lightning, plasma). then Newton arrived and we renamed those the states of matter. then science kept going and we realized phases of matter were more complicated than we thought they were and there were a lot of in-between phases like hot ice, supercritical liquid, and so forth, although the four "major" phases of matter were still the most common and important within the bounds of either Earth or the sun.
211. emergence / ergodicity (sic - movement of free-floating entities toward particular patterns which may become consistent structures; MDem 4.3) -> the real-world phenomenon or non-fictional motif of smaller objects functioning against each other to produce larger objects or processes.
212. alchemy / hermeticism / Historical study of chemical qualities and quality-based cosmology -> "Alchemy, the great secret"
213. alchemical symbol / alchemical motif
214. European alchemy / alchemical concepts in Christianity
215. Buddhist alchemy / alchemical concepts in Buddhism
216. consistent repetition or replicability -> component of predictability, used to define "repeating process" and events that are easy to empirically verify
217. Marxist text
218. defined reality -> a specific collection of material objects united by physics, which may be a whole reality or part of a reality. similar definition to a "system", but intertwined with the concepts of relativity theories
219. no real-world defined reality
220. hypothetical object
221. hypothetical interaction / hypothetical process
222. hypothetical series of events
223. ??
224. ??
225. "nickel" Item - video or page used 3-5 times in stacks of examples which has thus passed minimum notability. credit author with "author name string" or "external data item"; if already recorded on Signifier Item which is linked instead of its sources, no need for new item

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226. fictional reality / fictional universe / fictional cosmos
227. fictional object / non-unique fictional object
228. unique fictional object -> do not make Items for every single kind of fictional object, just also tag it as the real thing
229. fictional process / non-unique fictional process / fictional physics process
230. unique fictional event / unique fictional process
231. fictional historical event / canonical event / confirmed theory
232. unconfirmed fictional process / unconfirmed fan theory
233. unconfirmed fictional event / unconfirmed fan theory
234. ??
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236. ??
237. fictional population
238. ??
239. ??
240. earth as relative to fictional world -> wasn't totally sure whether this should be an S Item or a Z Item. mostly, it is quite literally just the real world with all its real-world characteristics, only looked at from the angle of a fictional universe. it's a very literal thing. it's technically used as a motif because everything in a work is a signifier, but... everything in a work is referenced through a signifier. I think this is a Z Item.
241. audience as relative to fictional world
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260. source with particular rarity / source at some particular level of abundance
261. source found at library
262. source found at distant library -> sub-case of: source found at library
263. source found at used book sale / used book found locally (comic, video, etc)
264. source found at free bookshelf -> sub-case of: source found at used book sale
265. source found used online
266. source found new locally
267. source found new online -> this is for physical texts that are purchasable through the internet
268. source found new as eBook / source found new as digital audiobook -> this is for non-physical texts that are purchasable through the internet
269. source reprinted online -> this is for texts that are free online, in any format
270. ??
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279. ??
280. statement with no possible backing claims
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288. misinformation or disinformation
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291. 'pataphysics
292. relativistic gap -> gap between physical objects made of something bigger than quarks. when there are no fundamental interactions such as photons crossing the gap between objects, there is no serious causality going on between objects. great separation between objects in terms of how easy it is for them to interact is relativistic separation: two planets several light-years apart have a difficulty in interacting with each other measured by the fact interactions through physical signals take years. in this, there is a certain inherent connection between relativity and quantum physics. relativity talks about gaps that photons travel across. quantum mechanics talks about gaps photons travel across. this means something for gravity, but nobody knows what that statement actually will be.
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298. transfer of packet between objects / transfer of free-floating packet from one free-floating object to another
299. physical interaction -> critical concept for relativity, and Heidegger's book, because it is arguably the sheer definition of physics existing
300. particle physics
301. fundamental particle / fundamental force quantum / fundamental force packet
302. fundamental particle interaction / Feynman diagram reaction
303. hadron / composite subatomic particle -> nucleons, mesons
304. interaction that assembles composite particles / force that holds composite particle together -> strong interaction, weak interaction, electromagnetism; may be totally synonymous with "fundamental force" except that we don't know what interactions gravity is composed of
305. fundamental force -> strong interaction, weak, electromagnetism, gravity
306. quantum (amount) / quanta
307. ??
308. quantized gravity (hypothetical theory) / quantum gravity model / theory of quantum gravity
309. paraparticle -> [1]
310. boson physics
311. boson
312. boson field
313. double-slit experiment
314. gauge boson
315. scalar boson
316. higgs boson
317. ??
318. ??
319. graviton (hypothetical particle)
320. fermion physics
321. fermion
322. fermion field
323. exclusion principle
324. quark -> color charge
325. lepton -> no color charge
326. ??
327. ??
328. ??
329. ??
330. dark matter problem
331. supersymmetry / SuSy -> unsubstantiated; doesn't have a lot of evidence as of yet
332. neutralino -> unsubstantiated; a supersymmetry solution
333. weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) / WIMP (hypothetical particle) -> looks unsubstantiated, but not totally falsified
334. axion (hypothetical particle) -> currently being researched
335. Matter-antimatter annihilation converts dark matter to matter
336. Dark matter particles interact with visible matter through Higgs bosons / Higgs portal hypothesis
337. technicolor Higgs model
338. Gravity interactions are just one big coincidence / postquantum gravity -> [2]
339. dark matter / unknown solution to dark matter problem -> [3]
340. quantum field
341. photon field
342. gluon field / strong field / quantum chromodynamics field
343. W & Z boson field / weak field / flavor swap field / stellar fusion field
344. Higgs field -> scalar field not transformed by relativity
345. ??
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348. ??
349. theta field / axion field
350. physical field
351. scalar field
352. vector field
353. spinor field
354. tensor field
355. classical field
356. electric field -> vector field
357. magnetic field -> vector field
358. gravitational field (classical physics) / gravity field (classical physics)
359. radian (unit)
360. degree (unit)
361. No individual object moves faster than a photon / No object moves faster than gauge bosons / Nothing moves faster than the speed of light in a vacuum
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400. reductionism
401. upreductionism (pronounced upreductionism) or ana-reductionism / retermination (relativistic determination or determinism; framed as a new kind of reductionism) / emergence (the subset of emergence which is relatively predictable and involves one scale of things producing a larger scale of things) -> science communicators and anti-science people need to understand the distinction between splitting atoms to find the quarks and attempting to predict atoms from quarks, and realize that the latter is still sometimes possible even if it's a lot harder. let's think about weather models: a lot of big objects like cold fronts and warm fronts interact to produce a weather outcome. when the weather report is correct you've managed to do up-reductionism.
     it's taking all of me to not flip the swatch color to STM from MX and say this is already science. no, I need a science article. a credible science hypothesis in an article will do as far as marking this a motif; you'd need more to mark it Z0 but that would prove it's being discussed in science and not just in philosophy.
402. constructor theory -> a weird and interesting scientific hypothesis that, the more I think about it, the more I doubt could possibly be true. I think humanity has more chance of cracking a model of up-reductionism / retermination than this being a theory that makes sense.
403. cube dimensionality -> the kind of "dimensions" that most people usually think of as dimensions: the real number line extended into a plane, and into a cube, or into a tesseract, with all the infinitesimals in between each corner of the solid.
     cube dimensionality exists on three known axes in real life, so... Z0. there are three of them, you at least know what a fourth one would look like in fiction even if it is not confirmed to physically exist.
404. non-spatial dimension -> easy to comprehend with treed dimensionality where a dimension isn't a whole plane of real numbers. more confusing as the dimension-on-paper gets continuous. I mean, just try imagining a non-spatial dimension that's not time. it took me years and years to ever think of one.
405. There is a probability dimension below time / We live in 3+1+1D (pronounced 3+1+1D) space with a dimension of probability and a dimension of history / We live in 5D space with a dimension of probability below time -> somebody has to have discovered this hypothesis before me. I cannot be the first one. it's too simple, it's too obvious. it's almost too obvious to be correct?? attacking this thing is where the real fun begins, I suppose.
     thought 1: did I rediscover hilbert spaces? I don't think so but I do not even know.
406. ??
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408. Spacetime can be broken down into a probabilistic process / To find quantum gravity, create a probabilistic version of general relativity [4] -> a tall claim, but one I think is plausible. quantum mechanics is inherently similar to relativity thanks to things like wave functions and fundamental interactions. this all begins at a contradiction of whether and when we can assume that things happen or measure each other independent of our observations (hidden variable theories)
409. Quantum mechanics is secretly a science of ordinary stochastic processes / Quantum systems can be modeled as non-Markovian stochastic processes -> Jacob Barandes; I don't understand the mathematics but it already makes so much sense. technically a hidden-variable theory, but claimed to be much simpler and bring in a smaller area of non-classical behavior [5] [6]
410. time travel
411. world line / correlation shown on Penrose diagram
412. predetermined future -> this concept is so general it could apply to real-life historical theology debates, but I'm coding it as a fictional trope for science fiction reasons.
413. time paradox
414. original timeline
415. desirable future
416. undesirable future
417. future as mathematical superposition
418. treed dimensionality -> the mathematical definition of "dimensions" as how many levels deep you are in a choice tree, or how many columns deep you are in a table. this is not the only definition of "dimensions" nor the most common one. it's generally preferred to define "dimensions" as things that can create whole fields of numbers like a whole real number line that can be expanded out into a plane and a cube of coordinates. I have no issue with that, of course. but, this is the kind of dimensionality that "Item dimension" or "Item dimensionality" refers to in the context of all these numbered Items. the simple depth of a rooted tree that we are referring to as dimensionality.
     the first place I saw treed dimensionality was either in statistics — "n-dimensional analysis" — or in reference to quantum numbers, where once again you have multiple degrees of freedom where things can slide along axes, and it seems possible though not certain that some people are literally confusing them with cube dimensionality and turning them into spatial dimensions.
419. The Hat Man
420. Was this made on drugs?? / How could anybody have made this sober / I want what they were smoking
421. Actual drug trip artwork / Ambien post
422. Flatland (1884) [7] -> I watched the animated movie recently. I have to say, when the commenters labeled it cosmic horror, that's perfectly fair. my first thought is that it was a "look how advanced the aliens are" plot, especially when the Spacelanders want to wipe out the Flatlanders. I think this is exactly the right number range for it.
423. ??
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430. fringe science / pseudoscience
431. fringe history / pseudohistory -> I don't even know what swatch to use for this.
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439. galactic bible -> the motif of a pseudohistory detailing large events between multiple civilizations, where it may be that not a single one of the civilizations or events is verifiable. Atlanteans vs snake people, Mormon bible almost equally fall under this motif.
440. zero game [8] -> a game which essentially is over. neither player has a legal move, and the board may as well be empty.
441. player score point -> a player-specific score tracker in a board game or similar.
442. team score point
443. move in N direction / move in negative direction (game theory) -> these are the more technical definitions of scoreboard points. you can choose to define scoreboards or game spaces in terms of positive and negative numbers, although it results in the strange artifact of star numbers that act oddly like a new version of zero you can multiply. all of this rests on the assumption of a zero-sum game, akin to tic tac toe or checkers.
444. move in P direction / move in positive direction (game theory)
445. space in neutral direction / playable game space in direction which is neither player N nor player P -> while moves in a zero-sum game must go a particular direction, game spaces don't have to. this is part of the definition of "star", although I still don't understand what the full definition is.
446. ??
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449. game rules manual / card game rules sheet / board game rules sheet -> to be used for reference statements, or entries preserving official rules sheet links
450. board game piece / board game card / board game token / card game token / unspecified game card / unspecified game piece
451. playing card / unspecified game card
452. playing card deck -> has three uses. explaining card game mechanics; references; explaining Deltarune / Homestuck
453. trump deck / poker deck
454. pinochle deck
455. tarot deck
456. mahjong set / mahjong deck
457. creature deck / medieval kingdom deck / Arcmage-style deck / Magic-style deck
458. named trading-card-game deck / named deck
459. trading-card-game set
460. chess piece
461. pawn (chess piece)
462. knight (chess piece)
463. bishop (chess piece)
464. rook (chess piece)
465. queen (chess piece)
466. king (chess piece)
467. promoted pawn (chess piece)
468. checker (board game piece)
469. 8 by 8 checkerboard / checker board / chess board -> they are not strictly the same, as apparently one is smaller, but they sure are awfully similar
470. draw deck -> board field, either central or player-specific
471. card suit -> the concept of something that goes in a card suit
472. object-based card suit / playing card suit / season-based card suit / plant or animal card suit
473. elemental card suit / card color
474. numbered card
475. face card
476. resource card / Resident card (Aurora) / mana card / land card / energy card
477. character card which may act as figurehead / character card / creature card / monster card / Theorist card (Aurora)
478. event card / Action card (Aurora) / instant event card
479. continuing event card / Condition card (Aurora) / enchantment card
480. card area / board field -> in general
481. main draw deck / deck / central draw deck / market deck (Tea Dragon Society) -> board field
482. player draw deck / deck / library / character deck -> board field
483. hand / player hand / hand cards / hold (Tea Dragon Society) -> board field
484. character area / creature area / Army (Arcmage) / Member Zone (Aurora) -> implied to be player-specific but not stated to be
485. condition area / permanents area / Condition Zone (Aurora) / terrain area / supporter area -> could be plural
486. figurehead area / commander area / Guide Space (Aurora) / main character area
487. removed from the game / exile zone -> board field
488. prize card area -> central or player, either can exist
489. discard pile / graveyard / GY / Devastation Zone (Aurora) -> implied to be player-specific
490. in-play card area -> superset of: character area, etc
491. stack of connected cards -> solitaire, Member Zone masses/groups (Aurora)
492. modifiable card
493. modifier card / equipment card / enchantment card / power-up card / card eaten by character card -> refers to visually representing cards more than to effects
494. face-up card
495. face-down card
496. generated card / token card
497. modifying token / modifying counter / damage counter / power-up counter / status effect counter
498. free-floating token / board game token -> miscellaneous token placed on some space on table for status purposes
499. transient card / effect card which does not enter play
500. card field / card stat / card metric / card attribute -> superset of: object suit, suit color, number
501. card category / card kind -> Condition, Action, etc. should usually be represented through "instance of" property, this is just to define what a category technically is
502. card suit / card element / card color
503. card name / card title
504. card cost
505. card worth / point value / victory points
506. card power / offensive power
507. card endurance / defensive power / stamina / hit points if same as defensive strength
508. card resource value / energy value / mana value / growth value (Tea Dragon Society)
509. card rules / card basic effects
510. card flavor text -> the concept of flavor text. put especially memorable flavor text in "relevant quote"
511. card with in-play effect / effect permanent / enchantment creature -> could also be a "modifier card", but in some games may take effect in hand / graveyard / etc. a card which has an effect when in something a particular game considers an in-play area
512. card with draw effect
513. card with discard effect
514. card with in-hand effect -> Tea Dragon Society is the only game I can think of that does this, off the top of my head
515. card with in-discard-pile effect / card with in-graveyard effect
516. card with in-draw-deck effect -> never heard of this one but maybe it exists, who knows
517. card with in-deck effect / card with different rules in particular decks / card affected by figurehead card / card affected by main-character card / card affected by commander card / inherently tutorable card / fusion mechanic card / synchro card / pendulum card / card that complements other cards inherently
518. single-use game piece / single-use card / card which is discarded after effect
519. card with unique rules -> superset of: card with draw effect, etc.; card which is not neatly described by set theory statements
520. twenty-sided die
521. face-up card area / card area with cards face-up
522. face-down card area / card area with cards face-down
523. faced-away card area / card area with cards face-up toward one player / face-up card area specific to one player / hidden face-up card area -> this is for coding player hands.
524. card area with cards laid out horizontally / card area with cards separated
525. card area with cards laid out vertically -> superset of/instance of/consists of?: bound stack of cards
526. bound stack of cards / stack of cards which is deck-shaped -> as opposed to informal card stacks in solitaire, equipment-card stacks, etc.
527. ??
528. ??
529. resource card area -> doesn't necessarily exist in game rules but likely to exist on svg images
530. truth value (top level category) / non-binary truth value
531. spring (card suit) -> technically exists in mahjongg as well as Tea Dragon Society
532. summer (card suit)
533. autumn (card suit)
534. winter (card suit)
535. Hackenbush [9]
536. tic tac toe -> seems like a silly thing to be talking about until you realize how complicated combinatorial game theory makes simple things, and then you absolutely won't want to use a more complex game than this.
537. super tic tac toe / tic tac toe with a tic tac toe board on each square -> this thing reminds me of Communist Internationals. there's definitely something to that. like, the small boards are the countries containing the class populations. the large boards are either the global class populations or the rival Internationals. I wonder what is the simplest board game you'd need to represent mainstream Marxism-Leninism versus Trotskyism, making the unrealistic assumption they are both equally powerful.
538. star (unreal number) / star (number-like object in game theory; number that is neither positive nor negative, cancels out itself, and yet can be multiplied) -> this thing is unbelievably interesting to me. it feels strangely like a non-numerical object thrown into the slot of a number. it's like the Missingno of numbers.
     let's see... GIGO / undefined behavior + Pokémon = glitch Pokémon. undefined behavior + numbers = abstract algebra. or something.
539. binary truth value -> sub-case of: non-binary truth value.
540. False / FALSE / F -> formal logic or boolean value
541. True / TRUE / T -> formal logic or boolean value
542. communication rating level / work rating code
543. U / Unknown -> highly implies "probably not false" but doesn't state it
544. NG / Not Good
545. G / Good
546. (communication rating level)
547. (communication rating level)
548. N/A / Not Applicable
549. E / Excepted
550. zero or more
551. one or more
552. exactly 52 / deck of 52 -> subset of: order of magnitude
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599. many
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601. fictional incident, tragedy, or crime / un-true crime
602. ??
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607. ??
608. absence -> the lack of something that would otherwise be there, usually physically, sometimes within a logical framework
609. inanimate object / countable inanimate object
610. living thing / countable lifeform -> any of a number of kinds of living things, real or fictional, which is not an inanimate object but is countable
611. ??
612. dystopian alien nation
613. Beast (AllDir simulation) / Beast (mathematics) / Beast field atop natural resource field -> vector representation of an individual animal; see scrap MDem 4.4/"starclan"
614. ??
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616. ??
617. placeholder -> the concept of placeholders
618. proposed Item
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640. Pascal's wager / god grid (Christian philosophy)
641. ethics problem involving Trotsky / ethics thought experiment involving Trotsky / Trotskyite variant of existing thought experiment / Trotsky problem (philosophical dilemma which centers around Trotskyite conspirators or early Trotskyism; meta-Marxism) -> there are bound to be some new ones that come up but the variants of old ones can also go on this entry
642. ??
643. ethics problem involving workers' states
644. Trotsky's wager / Trotskyist god grid -> Pascal's wager except with early Trotskyism.
645. ??
646. ??
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649. ??
650. trolley problem -> I swear the principle of these is violated by anticommunist memoirs. think about it. every anticommunist memoir sends the trolley over thousands of people to save one person.
651. single victim (philosophy)
652. trolley (philosophy)
653. trolley sacrifice (philosophy) / fat person (fat man; philosophy)
654. Trotskyite trolley problem -> there are at least two possible "Trotsky problems". one is the god grid with Trotsky where he loses everything if Trotskyism is wrong. one is the Trotskyite trolley problem where there are 1,000 Trotskyites on one track and a million Soviet people on the other track. this entry refers to the "train tracks" Trotsky problem.
655. five victims (philosophy)
656. ??
657. ??
658. ??
658. Communist trolley problem -> this is already a coherent concept but I just don't have a perfect idea of what it means. I think... a Communist trolley problem is simply a trolley problem where all the objects in the diagram are labeled as things that exist in workers' states.
660. morality or ethics / morality (method of distinguishing Right from Wrong; MDem 5.1-5.2) -> I at first wanted to put morality at number 333 but that was already filled up by quantum physics concepts. this will do
661. local morality -> localized conception of morality produced by the motions of a particular countable culture
662. ??
663. class-based morality
664. ??
665. ??
666. moral wrong / Wrong (morality and ethics)
667. moral right / Right (morality and ethics)
668. ??
669. objective morality / ethics (objective study of how groups of people construct morality and what are the best ways to construct morality)
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740. What are numbers? / What are integers? / What are real numbers? -> has several different technical definitions within mathematics.
741. Integers are multiples of True / using True to construct numbers -> common in programming languages. was not used in the lambda calculus video I watched, which was closer to using sets.
742. Integers are actually functions / using function to construct numbers / using succession function to construct numbers (iterator function; lambda calculus) / Church numbers -> a method used in lambda calculus.
743. Integers are actually sets / using sets to construct numbers -> Peano arithmetic. in a way, using sets to construct numbers is not very different from using an iterator function. it's pretty easy to argue that putting a set around a number is its own kind of function, in the computer programming sense or maybe in a lambda calculus sense.
744. Integers are actually graphs / Integers are actually undirected graphs -> I haven't found a solid application of this aside from the most preliminary descriptions of graph economics and the Lattice model; right now I don't have a single small, obvious demo, so this is currently more of just a "weird thought". this is the concept that depending on what kind of objects you're counting, any particular collection of people or snowflakes or water molecules is better modeled as an undirected graph than a Peano-style set. in the real world, quantities of things are largely important because they either are grouped together or are not grouped together, thus creating separate physical objects that can interact.
745. Numbers are whatever is between two sets / Numbers are whatever is in the middle of a Dedekind cut / Game theory can make a number system / Game theory can be used to create a number system / surreal numbers proposition / Hackenbush numbers proposition -> very interesting. looks like some version of complex numbers with more axes?? or maybe some form of superpositional numbers. I'm surprised I haven't heard of that before. I mean, how can it be that there are all these quantum physics equations and no superpositional numbers regarded as their own objects instead of just error bars? the wikipedia article says it's a weird new form of infinitesimals.
     [edit:] wow, that was not correct. I think the explanations I watched just had a lot of trouble explaining it in a way that made sense. surreal numbers mostly get complicated because the sets get infinite and they're having to number countable infinities.
746. Numbers are secretly error bars -> I had to go over the definition of surreal numbers several times to properly understand that this wasn't what those were.
747. ??
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749. ??
750. fuzzy logic -> proposition-based logic which uses real numbers from 0 to 1. I don't think this is the only way to do non-binary logic, but it may be one of the easiest ones to explain and demonstrate.
751. fuzzy set -> a fuzzy set is a lot like any set, but its membership uses a non-binary truth value in the form of a rational number from 0 to 1. it's like one big circle with a bunch of numbers or Algebras around it where every object is a particular distance from the center to the outside. and of course, where the exact position around the circle doesn't matter, the circle is for flavor.
     I'm thinking. I think if you threw these into a Dedekind cut, you'd have to define what each number in the set is first. one intuitive way to do it is to draw a real number line, with a ramp of numbers rising off it so you start at zero membership and go all the way up to one or higher if you want. and I think that would be complex numbers; I think one way to define a fuzzy set is to say basically each integer in a fuzzy set is a complex number that only goes up to n+i.
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770. people-gambling -> the usually non-fictional motif of sorting through a lot of people to hit the jackpot and find the right people. this motif is inherent in most "job interview advice", as well as some "relationship advice", "product marketing advice", and rants against "social media". however, it also comes up in other unexpected places, like looking through a lot of books on a particular topic to find a book which is considered good or useful for some purpose. most people consider people-gambling perfectly normal. (as much as that totally baffles me.) this is often missed in critiques of "social media" as uniquely bad — if everything in life involves gambling on groups of people like some kind of poker deck, why wouldn't it be obvious for videos or microblog posts to work that way? people-gambling + ?? = Carl Sagan's professors. people-gambling + kaiju = Pokémon. people-gambling + Difference makes you useful = Wackytown fallacy.
771. Dedekind cut / {...|...} -> an operator used for defining numbers, whether the real numbers or the surreal numbers. a number or set can be put on each side, and the result of the operation goes in the middle of the cut.
772. ??
773. surreal numbers -> a grouping of numbers defined in a different way than the real numbers are typically defined. reading books about these things you'll quickly come to the realization that fractions and decimals are a social construct and there are actually any number of different ways to define what number comes before or after a different number or how to divide a range of numbers.
774. Surreal Numbers (Knuth 1974) -> in dialogue format.
775. Winning ways for your mathematical plays (Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy 1982)
776. social event horizon / Vegeta effect / Entei effect -> the non-fictional motif of people having a horizon around themselves which other people cannot pierce through to control, with only a few exceptions for such things as people forming a social structure that makes a decision of how to use all its people. this motif doesn't directly include those exceptions. this motif combines with other propositions to form particular historical or contemporary conceptions of "free will", but it doesn't really have to be used that way if you instead wish to study people through existential materialism.
777. Free Will -> a motif I have never liked because of the fact nobody can actually define it. whenever you try to discuss Free Will the discussion becomes confusing, because what process are we even debating the existence of? worse yet, people who think they can disprove it typically try to counter it with concepts that are difficult to substantiate or falsify. even Sabine Hossenfelder, who is convinced she knows exactly what hypotheses are so up-in-the-air they aren't science, tossed out an unfalsifiable hypothesis to counter Free Will. this entry.... will be a messy one. there will be about 10+ different models associated with what is supposedly the same thing.
778. freedom (top-level category) -> one of the only terms worse than free will in terms of how many definitions it has. genuinely don't use this except to list the category on category pages
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789. formal logic
790. formal logic operator / logical operator / logic gate
791. NOT (logical operator) / NOT (logic gate)
792. IMPLY (logical operator) / material conditional / → / P → Q -> silly question: do these arrows go the text direction in RTL and vertical scripts? I'd think they would but I have no idea
793. converse (logical operator) / ← / P ← Q -> not always equal to IMPLY operation
794. NAND (logical operator) / NAND (logic gate) -> absolutely everything except an overlap
795. XNOR (logical operator) / XNOR (logic gate) -> there was some reason I needed this in the past. I think it was for tearing apart Rothenberg's set theory chapter.
796. OR (logical operator) / OR (logic gate)
797. AND (logical operator) / AND (logic gate)
798. XOR (logical operator) / XOR (logic gate)
799. NOR (logical operator) / NOR (logic gate)
800. set theory
801. set (set theory) -> collection of elements modeled by mathematical structures; mathematical structure
802. empty set (set theory) / ∅ / {} / void set / size-zero set -> my nemesis ever since Rothenberg bizarrely abused it to explain The Subject
803. non-empty set (set theory)
804. multiset (set theory) -> set that behaves like a programming language array, with non-unique members allowed
805. subset -> set contained in another set; empty set is a subset of most non-empty sets
806. union (set operation) / OR (set operation) -> combination of two sets; empty set causes no change
807. intersection (set operation) / AND (set operation) -> overlap of two sets only; use the empty set, get the empty set
808. symmetric difference (set operation) / ∆ / A ∆ B / XOR (set operation)
809. absolute complement (set operation) / NOR (set operation)
810. set theory axiom
811. set property / set characteristic / set indicator function result
812. Sets are equal if they contain the same members / axiom of extensionality (ZFC set theory)
813. No set can be a member of itself -> true in ZFC set theory, but not all set theories
814. Defining sets based on properties that cannot be true creates a set that cannot exist / There is no set of all sets that do not contain themselves / Russel's paradox / Sets must be defined following the rules of sets in order to be sets (ZFC set theory)
815. A set definition will never outrun the biggest possible set / Sets cannot be defined based on the biggest possible sets / Cantor's paradox -> this one is easy to escape if you want to number countable infinities, because mathematicians simply use other structures than sets
816. bisimulation / bisimilarity -> when two mathematical ontologies have equivalent behavior; when two mathematical objects are functionally indistinguishable regardless of whether they are the same spacetime-unique object; suitable mathematical equality test for Particle Theories / Bauplans
817. hyperset -> a set which definitionally contains itself in a bisimilarity relation
818. hyperset theory
819. ZFC set theory / Zermelo-Fraenkel Choice-axiom set theory (ZFC) -> set theory where sets are "computational" and pointers into the set cause a kind of infinite loop bug in the logic
820. non-well-formed set theory
821. anti-foundation axiom (set theory)
822. [S2] Sets are actually just directed graphs containing the same arrows (AFA) / Aczel's anti-foundation axiom (AFA)
823. [S2] Sets are actually just tree graphs that cannot be rearranged (SAFA) / Sets are trees connecting Quine atoms with no interesting automorphisms (SAFA) / Scott's anti-foundation axiom (SAFA)
824. [S2] Sets are actually just directed graphs with no exact symmetries / Finsler's anti-foundation axiom (FAFA) -> this one sounds pretty similar to the popular AFA if you don't look closely, but it's based on rotating the graph around and renumbering it
825. [S2] Sets are nothing more than baskets of tiny sets / Sets are a proper class based on collections of Quine atoms / Boffa's anti-foundation axiom (BAFA) -> some mathematicians really don't like this one but I don't know enough to say why it would be objectively bad. I'm not even sure I've found a good/correct definition of BAFA yet
826. atom (set theory) / set element that cannot have set-structured members / urelement
827. set-based atom (set theory) / Quine atom (set theory) / singleton / graph node serving as one-element set / graph node mapped to ur-element in binary relation -> Quine atom is one of the most arcane terms I've ever seen and I refuse to use it just yet
828. univocality -> mapping from one unique name or object to another unique name or object. signifier equations sometimes do this, in cases such as technical jargon
829. biunivocality -> a really fancy word for counting. no, I'm serious. a biunivocal mapping exists when one set of unique names maps onto a set of unique elements, as if counting things with natural numbers. Deleuze and Guattari once abused this concept to try to forbid counting and grouping individuals and try to turn them into a non-local beam of photon-people
830. ??
831. ??
832. two indistinguishable iron spheres called Castor and Pollux -> I love when mathematicians actually think of entertaining thought experiments
833. proper class (set theory) / class (set theory) -> the repeated pattern of having a given characteristic or returning a given indicator function result, which is not a set. similar to "class" or "interface" in object oriented programming
834. graph-to-set mapping / exact picture of set -> a concept that comes up quite a bit in defining non-well-founded set theories
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870. graph node
871. disjoint union -> logical combination of internally unconnected graphs/sets. seems like I might have to use it to describe populations some day
872. hypergraph -> a mathematical graph that could theoretically store a 3D model composed of a bunch of triangles, or the collection of all subpopulations in a population including overlapping subpopulations
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880. graph (graph theory) -> a collection of nodes and node pairs, typically visualized as a path
881. undirected graph (graph theory)
882. directed graph (graph theory) / 𝒢 (variable)
883. cyclic graph (graph theory)
884. acyclic graph (graph theory)
885. tree (graph theory) / tree graph -> acyclic graph, one path between any two nodes, every vertex a particular point in space on a map essentially
886. rooted graph (graph theory) / pointed graph / arborescence / anti-arborescence -> an arborescent graph points away from the root. also: according to Deleuze and Guattari it's basically the devil. you didn't know there was a Good and Evil to graph theory did you, but now you know
887. star graph (graph theory) -> graph with everything connected to a central node. how I often visualize what non-well-founded sets are supposed to be, you just put the empty set in the center
888. ??
889. ??
890. Gödel's incompleteness theorem / Gödel gap (barrier beyond which an individual entity cannot reason without interacting with another object)
891. ??
892. metamathematics -> this is it. Marxism : meta-Marxism :: ontology : meta-ontology :: mathematics : metamathematics
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899. casual steganography for fun -> how Spore creatures are stored in an image [10]