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Thank you so much for your post and for asserting your definitions and outline for a structure of "knowing"!

It appears your views have attracted the attention of some of our best thinkers. Kudos, lafroste!

Next I define TRUTH as the accurate representation of REALITY.

I find the above statement interesting in comparing it to my own at post 19. In my view "all that there is" (aka "reality") is God's will and is unknowable in its fullness, that the physical realm is a manifestation of that reality.

It appears we both speak to a manifestation of reality! That is good to know. Thank you!

Truth. A worthy word project. Since the Pope mentioned that he would want dignity until death, I looked up the word dignity. Then I looked up every associated word used in the definition of dignity, and every word used to define those words. Etc. until down to body parts. It is quite a constellation, similar to the constellations of meaning mentioned by Schopenhauer in 'Will and Representation.' Four hours later I had an association list, and eight hours after that I had a flowchart [Pflow, really powerful for this]. There is no meaning to dignity that is not on the chart, excepting some Derrida-esque deconstruction or Lacan-ite higher level synthesis that would not be in the usual range of common meaning.

Did this also for 'evil', since that seems to be a recurring theme lately. 'Truth' would also be worthy of the method. It needs some serious free time to work even one term. Maybe it is worth it, maybe not, but many times a term is used in a way that assumes everybody knows what is meant, while a rigorous analysis would show that use meaningless and useless.