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:

ClosedAbout: 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 (TOPTHEE 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.

ClosedSatellites: 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.

ClosedTechnicals: 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

ClosedFirst Things First

The About the Taxonomy section answers the commonest questions and provides an orientation via analogies. It also puts the discovery in a historical and scientific context. A separate section covers usefulness, and examples of taxonomic contents are found here.

Start with the Welcome page.

ClosedGuidance, 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.

ClosedTopic 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.

ClosedBlogs

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.

ClosedInteraction

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.

ClosedDirty Harry: «A man's got to know his limitations.»


Originally posted: July 2009; Last amended: 15-Mar-2018