THEE Path

In the early days, I needed to understand the difference between the work-level hierarchy and other fundamental hierarchies with diverse formal properties that I was uncovering in inquiry, decision and purpose. Jaques and colleagues attributed a fundamental significance to their Organizational Work Levels Hierarchy. It is true that it is fundamental: but then all Frameworks within THEE are fundamental. Beck and co-workers clearly felt like Jaques when they called their Spiral Dynamics Q-hierarchy the «theory of everything». In THEE, it is the Root Hierarchy that is logically fundamental. However, before I discovered it, I had identified several of its Levels as Primary Hierarchies. So I referred to work-levels as a «Quasi-primary» Hierarchy. It became evident that «primary» did not apply at all, but I kept the label, Q- from«quasi-» for sentimental reasons.

Conjectured Path

The conjectured path is as follows:

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Path from the Root Hierarchy through the Communication Hierarchy to its Principal Typology with selection of the Gestalt and Logical methods to generate a 7-level structure.

Origin: Root Cell: Will (not shown in diagram)
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Emanate: Root Hierarchy (RH): Framework of Endeavour
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Select: Level-5 (RH-L5): Communication
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Emanate: PH5: Primary Hierarchy of Communication
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Select: Level-6 (PH5-L6): Meaning
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Nest within Level-6: PH’5-Principal Typology: Approaches to Using Language
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Select: L'5 and L'6—Gestalt + Logical Uses of Language.

Identify: Modal Hierarchy—α: assert; β: appraise; γ: systematize; δ: develop: as developed for QH2-Organisations and also applied to QH4-Societal Institutions.

Expand: Apply Modal Hierarchy to generate the 5th Q-Hierarchy: Q5—Arena of Schools of Philosophy & Responsibility for a Doctrine.
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  • Start: Subsidiary Typology (PH'5QH5t): Ways to Promulgate a Doctrine.
  • Derive: TET and Spiral (PH'5QH5C): Strengthening the Establishment of a Doctrine.
  • Derive: Hierarchy (PH'5QH5): Levels of Responsibility in a School.
  • Derive: Tree (PH'5QH5K): Dynamics of Orthodoxy in a School
  • Derive: Structural Hierarchy (PH'5QsH5): Functioning of a School
  • Derive: Structural Hierarchy Tree (PH'5QsH5K): Participative Dynamics within a School.

Schools of philosophy provide knowledge of a special sort.

Originally posted: 15-Jul-2022. Last updated: 20-Mar-2024.