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Personal Language

Personal language is the private meaning-world you carry inside words.

Personal Religion

Personal religion is your personal journey into spirituality and belief.

Personal Philosophy

Personal philosophy is the set of ideas you use to interpret life and decide how to live.

Potential

Potential refers to what a thing can become or do within reality’s constraints.

Actual

Actual refers to the realized state of a thing, including its current properties, form, condition, and category.

Essence

Essence refers to what a thing is, or is claimed to be, at its core.

Existence

Existence refers to whether or not a thing exists.

Eudaimonia

Eudaimonia is happiness achieved through a flourishing life of virtue.

Schema

A schema is the mind’s idea of a repeatable pattern.

Pragmatism

The view that ideas have value primarily by their practical, real-world results. Beliefs primarily matter by the difference they make in life.

Concrete Object

A concrete object is a material thing that exists in reality.

Abstract Entity

An abstract entity is a mental construct representing something non-material.

Free Will

Free Will is the degree of real choice a person has.

Normalcy

Normalcy is your learned sense of what feels expected.

Agnostic

An agnostic position on an irrational topic does not pretend certainty.

Identity

Identity is the personal journey of exploring the self.

Impermanence

Impermanence is the truth that reality is always changing. Everything flows, shifts, transforms, emerges, and passes away.

Worldview

A worldview is one’s interpretive lens, shaped by personal language, religion, and philosophy.

Framework

A framework is a structured set of ideas.
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