About the Website
Divisions
Thee-online.com is an unusual sort of website. The Topics in this section provide guidance and policies relevant to your use. The Newsletter Archive contains a historical record of website developments to 2015.
The site has six main divisions with three foci:
About: You are Here—The Introduction
This section introduces you to the Taxonomy (THEE) focusing on the scientific aspects and its usefulness, describes the project to put it online (TOP: THEE Online Project), explains the website and how to use it, and gives details of the website creator-author/investigator, Warren Kinston.
About has its own section in the Navigation Column ToC.
Satellites: Frameworks—The Technologies
The Satellites contain practical frameworks and technologies gathered in groups that make sense within everyday life and relate to the taxonomic structure. This is the substantive material. Those frameworks that are regarded as provisional have a grey background watermarked with TOP STUDIO : DRAFT ONLY.
Satellites are divided into two parts in the ToC:
- Frameworks developed prior to Architecture Room discoveries & conceptions.
- Frameworks developed subsequently and using the new conceptions.
Technicals: Principles—The Science
Technicals refers to the taxonomic infrastructure and speculative conceptions. It deals with principles, scientific status, forms and processes, puzzles, and unusual findings.
Technicals are divided into three parts in the ToC:
- The Hub contains general and established notions necessary to understand the formulation of frameworks.
- The Architecture Room contains more esoteric and speculative material.
- The Glossary lists and defines all terms with formulae if appropriate.
Suggestions
First Things First
Guidance, Encouragement & Warnings
This page explains a few practical and technical issues that often loom unnecessarily as obstacles to engagement with taxonomic thinking. Here you will find some basic premises and clarification of some common misunderstandings.
Read more.
Topic Search
Every Topic is fairly self-contained, and gives you a lot of control over what to see. You have a comprehensive Tables of Contents. Feel free to move from title to title or from link to link. Stick with what attracts you, skip what doesn't appeal.
See the Guide to Search.
Blogs
I used to write a blog approximately weekly on subjects more or less relevant to THEE. They are more personal, somewhat opinionated and without scientific pretensions. Blogs are not currently being posted.
Visit the blogs.
Interaction
You may email using a link in the footer. In the initial website, all pages were interactive via Disqus where comments and opinions could be posted. Interaction with Satellite pages was also possible via a Give Feedback form. Should demand have arisen, technologies were kept available to enable forums, private inquiry groups etc. All these interactive mechanisms have been discontinued due to a lack of interest.
Difficulties
THEE, especially in small doses, is obvious common sense. However, it sometimes runs so counter to conventional wisdom and current fashions in science, that it can be difficult to trust your own judgement. Nonetheless, in running your life, you have nothing but your judgement to fall back on.
An important goal of this website is to help you make judgements that work for you. But it takes effort to see yourself and see psychosocial reality. I recognize that it is a considerable effort to read what is written in a thoughtful reflective way.
If you are an academic or researcher, the taxonomic endeavour and the paradigm findings may seem rather alien. However, the findings may be relevant to your work, and your comments and contributions are welcome.
Dirty Harry: «A man's got to know his limitations.»
The amount of material is massive and well beyond any person's capacity to master. Fortunately, because THEE functions spontaneously in a situation of personal commitment, you do not have to know its components. Nevertheless, anyone can dip into virtually any area of human action that is of interest and get benefit by careful reflection. Scientists and consultants should make the effort to master areas that are their specialty. See more in About Usefulness.
Originally posted: July 2009; Last amended: 15-Mar-2018