Developing the Typology Essences Table

Note: This is a general account applicable to all Typologies.

Principal Typologies are found within the 6th Level of a Primary Hierarchy: see THEE Path. They are a set of 7 methods that govern how that Hierarchy is operated. In practice, they appear as approaches or mentalities which attract committment and belief within a particular domain of functioning. I refer to them as optimizers because each claims to guarantee the "best" results.

The Types can be plotted on a 2x2 Table, called a Typology-Essences Table (= TET). The resulting TET layout reveals features of practical importance that would otherwise be difficult to notice.

Each TET requires names for its axes. These names are called the executing duality (eD) of the Types. It specifies the personal context for using the method in the particular psychosocial field, which is specified by the primary structural hierarchy tree.

• One executing dimension relates to social context i.e. personal ends which are shared when using any method. So it is relevant to the effect, outcome or results.

  By convention, this is the X-axis. The X-axis is always outer, social, environmental, situational or objective: i.e. the X-axis is the «-social» aspect of psycho-social reality.

• The other executing dimension relates to the personal context i.e. the means or psychological requirement to produce the relevant output.

  By convention, this is the Y-axis. The Y-axis can be categorized variously as inner, personal, mental, psychological or subjective: i.e. the Y-axis is the «psycho-»(logical) aspect of psycho-social reality.

Once we have the correct formulations of the methods in the Typology and have identified the appropriate executing duality, then each of the 7 methods can be assessed and compared as: «very high» or «moderate» — covering the higher part of each axis; or «low» or «very low» — covering the lower part of each axis.

The inquiry challenge is to name the TET axes validly and sufficiently precisely for the focus of concern.

Getting it Right

If this particular duality is named correctly, then the inquiry moves ahead reasonably smoothly. Being slightly wrong may not matter too much.  But if the axes are named utterly incorrectly or too vaguely, then the investigation will certainly get into difficulties. The results of inquiry will be unpersuasive to others and downstream clarification will be blocked.

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• With this explanation in mind, continue to defining the axes.

Originally posted: 31-Mar-2015.