Unicist Glossary
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Action guide:
It is the homeostatic element of a concept (see complementariness). It avoids the modification of the purpose of a concept promoted by the utopia.
Added value:
It is the incremental value added by an agent to a given reality.
Adverbial function:
Is the homeostatic function that sustains the substantive function to avoid the modification posed by the verbal function (See complementariness)
Analogous experiences:
They are those with a similar functionality.
Analogous:
Two elements are analogous when they have the same operational functionality. Considering the function of flying, a bird and a plane may be considered analogous.
Anticoncept:
An anticoncept is a conceptual structure that has the purpose of destroying a concept. It is sustained by fallacies and is the basis of paradoxical behaviors. When a concept and its anticoncept join, they both disappear.
Antithetic value:
It is the verbal function of a concept. It functions according to the law of supplementarity (See supplementarity).
Appropriated value:
It is the value obtained by a system, due to its action in the environment.
Archetype:
Is the conceptual structure of automatic behaviors that underlies and sustain spontaneous responses of individuals, groups or cultures.
Argument:
It is an opinion that includes no groundings about a certain reality. It is an affirmation or a negation based on a subjective perception of reality.
Attractors:
According to the chaos theory, attractors are elements that structure chaos. There are point, cyclic, torus, and strange attractors. Strange attractors are the drivers of complex systems´ functionality.
Central value:
From a logical point of view, it is the purpose of a concept.
Chaos:
It is an unpredictable situation for observers and participants.
Complementariness:
It is an interdependent relation between two elements, actions or ideas. Each one of these elements has what the other element requires and they both have a coincident element.
Complex Systems:
They are system that structure open unified fields. The results of complex systems are unpredictable for ordinary people.
Concept:
It is the logical or pre-logical structure that regulates beings with real or virtual life. It is also defined as the driver of complex systems.
Contraction:
It is a conceptual function whose aim is to avoid that the death instinct prevails over the life instinct. Thanatos prevails in contraction.
Contractive function:
It is the function that intends to avoid the destruction of a system (simple or complex).
Credibility zone:
It is a participant’s perception of the functional concept of a reality.
Cross-cultural invariables:
They are human functional structures that are homologous in different cultures, such as the need for security and freedom.
Dehumanization:
It is a kind of anticonceptual functionality. Functional actions become self-fulfilling and generate a materialistic behavior.
Disequilibrating element:
It is the synonym of the antithetic element. (See supplementariness)
Drivers:
They are the functional concepts that define the evolution of a given reality. They can be assimilated to the strange attractors defined by the theory of chaos.
Dual thinking:
It is the natural and basic way of human thought. Human beings use dual thinking when they are overwhelmed by facts.
Effectiveness:
It is the integration of efficiency and efficacy.
Efficacy:
The capacity of humans to produce results responsively.
Efficiency:
It is the potential capacity of simple or complex systems to produce results.
Equilibrating element:
It is the synonym of the homeostatic element. (See complementariness)
Essential concept:
It is the “deepest” concept that structures a particular unified field. It is the structure of information that regulates the most essential behavior of complex systems and defines its long-term evolution.
Ethics:
Rules of behavior for individuals, groups, institutions and cultures. Ethics has a functional structure, a dominant moral and is sustained by an ideology.
Evolution stages:
Stages that describe the evolution cycle of a situation in which ontogenesis and phylogenesis are redundant.
Evolution:
It is the ascendant cycle measured in terms of the improvement of species.
Expansion:
A situation in which growth and life-instinct prevails.
Expansive function:
It is the function that impulses the expansion of a simple or complex system beyond the limits of its unified field.
Extrinsic concepts:
They are the concepts given by humans to elements, actions, ideas, facts or objects. They are described by their structural functionality and at the same time define it.
Fallacy:
False perceptions built upon a logical structure. When individuals’ beliefs and needs prevail when making a judgment, fallacies are unavoidable.
Falsification:
It is a process that seeks to prove that a hypothesis is false. When something cannot be proven to be false it is considered not-false. In common language it is called to be true.
Foundation:
It is an argument that contains reasonable, comprehensive, and verifiable information.
Freedom:
It is an internal structure that allows individuals to adapt to changing realities in a responsible way.
Functional concepts:
They are the drivers of the behavior of living beings with real or virtual life. They describe the functional structure of complex systems.
Functional structure:
The functional structure describes the structural relations within a simple or complex system. The functional structure of a complex system is given by the conceptual structure that regulates its evolution.
Functionality zone:
It is the description of an intrinsic concepts’ functioning.
Gravitational forces:
They are the external forces that influence the evolution of a unified field.
Homeostatic value:
It is the adverbial function of a concept. It limits the action of the antithetic value avoiding the modification or mutation of the concept (See complementariness).
Homologous:
Two elements are homologous when they have the same essential characteristic. A whale and a dog are homologous, in the sense that they are both mammals.
Hygienic:
It is an element necessary for a situation but which has no added value.
Idea:
It is an intellectual structure of a reality. It is functional to the approaching of concepts for individuals with dominant analytical thought.
Instability zone:
It is the place where the functional structure of a concept destabilizes. There are two instability zones:
a) The situation in which the lack of energy produces the loss of functionality or credibility.
b) The utopia point. It is the absolute point where reality vanishes.
Integrative thinking:
Its a Intellectual approach to reality based on the conjunction “and”. It does not consider the disjunction “or”.
Intrinsic concept:
It is the regulator of a complex system, whether it has real or virtual life. It defines the functionality of the complex system and does not depend on the perception of the observer.
Intrinsic:
It is an internal functionality of a given reality whose existence is not conditioned by others’ perception.
Involution:
It is a degradation cycle of a reality in terms of the evolution of species.
Life style:
It describes the adaptation of an individual to cultural mandates. His adaptive behavior involves the cultural values, the archetype and the dominant strategic style.
Maximal strategy:
The maximal strategy is the one depending on the environment. In this case the influence of a person, group or institution is insufficient to assure the result of a “strategic action”.
Minimal strategy:
In this case, the result of a strategic action depends on the individual, group or institution exerting this influence.
Moral:
It is a conceptual structure that aims to satisfy the needs of a culture, the necessity of transcendence and the needs of individuals.
Myth:
It is an adverbial function that limits the action of individuals within cultures to assure the purpose of the evolution of species.
Object:
An element containing a concept, a purpose to be achieved and a quality assurance function.
Objects library:
A structure that contains objects designed to be used in simple or complex systems. Cognitive objects organize the objects library when a system is complex.
Operative concept:
It integrates two of the elements of a concept: it integrates the action (verbal function) within the limits of the adverbial function. The purpose of the concept is considered as given.
Opinion:
It is a judgment of something. The opinion is basically subjective. When it is grounded it is called a foundation.
Over-contraction:
It is a situation in which destruction is challenged. It produces the implosion of the system.
Over-expansion:
It is a situation in which destruction is challenged. It produces the explosion of the system. Paradoxical functionality: A functionality that achieves opposite results from what apparently is seeking to achieve.
Preconcepts:
Individuals’ stratified conceptual structure, based on former experiences, created to avoid personal risks. They are a natural approach to reality based on automatisms.
Procedure:
In functional terms, it is the active part of the conceptual structure.
Purpose:
It is the final objective of a concept. It is the substantive function of a given reality.
Reflection:
It is a process to apprehend a given reality that begins with a projection of an individual’s opinions. Having solved the conflict of the projections, reality has to be introjected. It comes to an end when the internal and the external reality are homologous. This approach occurs within the unified field of an actual action.
Security:
It is the need of human beings to attain an internal structure to avoid chaos or depression.
Social capital:
The system of relations that defines the synergy of a group or culture. The strength of relations, when seeking for an objective, defines social capital. Strategic stereotype It is the name given to a stratified strategic style. In this case, a person loses its ability to adapt to reality, feels its survival threatened and seeks to obtain benefits from the environment.
Strategic style:
It describes the way a person influences the environment and the way he manages the influence of the environment.
Strategic thinking:
It is a intellectual approach to influence complex realities
Structure of a concept:
From a logical point of view, the structure of a concept is given by its central value, its antithetic value and its homeostatic value. From a semantic point of view, the structure is given by a substantive function, a verbal function and an adverbial function. From a functional point of view, the structure is given by a purpose, a procedure and an action guide. From a social point of view, the structure is given by a taboo objective, a utopical function and a mythical structure.
Structure of functional concepts:
It is the structure of drivers regulating the evolution of a complex system.
Sub-concept:
It is a complex sub-system within a complex system.
Subsistence:
It is the description of a situation in which individuals, institutions or cultures have a security framework to assure their survival.
Substantive function:
From a semantic point of view, it is the function that defines the purpose of a concept.
Supplementarity:
It is a relation between elements with redundant purposes and verbal functions, having a different homeostatic element. One of the elements has a superior “myth” that challenges the evolution of reality.
Survival:
It is a situation in which the individual perceives his life is being threatened. It can be real or not.
Taboo:
It is a socially unacceptable situation. Accepting taboos implies generating chaos.
True:
It is the situation in which the functional reality and its perception merge. From a transcendental point of view truth represents the absolute. The absolute implies the existence of the conjunction “and” with absence of the disjunction “or”.
Type of thought:
It describes the structure of the mental process to approach reality. There are four types of thought to approach reality: the operative, the analytic, the scientific and the conceptual.
Typology:
It defines a particular characteristic of the collective unconsciousness of a culture, segment or individual, based on their ultimate purposes.
Unicist dialectic:
It is the description of human double dialectics. On one hand, there is the dialect of the central value and the antithetic value. And on the other hand, there is the dialectic of the central value and the homeostatic value. Instantly, both relations integrate themselves to achieve the purpose of the central value.
Unicist logic:
A logical structure based on the conjunction “and” to apprehend complex realities. It excludes the disjunction “or”.
Unicist:
It is an operational, scientific and philosophic approach to reality. It considers reality as a concept driven unified field.
Unified field:
It is a specific portion of a reality to be influenced that works as an open system and requires the definition of arbitrary limits to make it functional.
Utopia point:
It is the condition of a reality when it turns out to be absolute. On the utopia point reality ceases to exist.
Utopia:
It is an idea that seeks to improve a situation (a no-place en terms of its etymology).
Verbal function:
From a semantic point of view, it is the function that defines the actions and establishes the utopias of a concept.
Vital functionality:
The final purpose of living beings.
Vocation:
It is the identity of an individual to fulfill his life plan consciously.
