Defining the Imports

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The three laws of the import of action, substance, and quality:

These must be accounted for distinct from each other, but you need all three:

Deontic Import: A justified statement must prescribe some or all real action, or how substance instantiates quality.

Ontic Import: A true statement must describe some or all real substance, or who/what substance instantiates quality.

Thetic Import: A belief statement must subscribe some or all real quality, or why substance instantiates quality.

This is my first stab because I had to take that stab or I was going to go absolutely insane. It’s on the way to somewhere. Bear with me.

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Not indexed: hypo-/hyper- thetic import (long for thetic)

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Wanted: Brain defogger.

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Maybe stuff like thetic / deontic import could be part of an “ontology” in the sense of — there are no abstract “objects”, but the future (say) can have thetic import for beings subject to time, but its ontic import is only possible for the store of nature?

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Existential import needs more defining/translating into the various logics (may need a new way of doing it).

Above is a start. Until finished… best I can do on this right now:

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Just hunch this might be relevant:

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