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The Badinagean taxonomy

Vernacular Cloud is an effort to envangelize the philosophical nomenclature of Victor Badinage. Badinage's thesis is that a new systematic philosophy suitable for the current epoch ought to simultaneously walk two paths: One route pursues hermeneutical and conceptual mastery by human subjects; A second route promulgates the nomenclature using the technology of controlled vocabularies. A systematic philosophy so conceived would thus combine the traditional topics of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric with the semantic technologies of taxonomy, ontology, knowledge graphs, social media, and so-called AI.

Each concept in the Badinagean nomenclature is published in SKOS, JSON-LD, HTML format with this canonical URL structure: https://vernacular.cloud/version/UUID

The Labyrinth of Reasons

circularity

proliferation

prejudice

disputation

subterfuge

ambiguity

oubliation

The Unsayables

time

space

pattern

isolate

aggregate

void

self

The Norms

survival

thriving

reality

meaning

truth

beauty

legitimacy

The Antinomies

Universal Beginning

Universal Description

Universal Granularity

Universal Justice

Universal Necessity

Universal Perspective

Universal Syntax

The Myths

Myth of the Proven

Myth of the Given

Myth of the Coven

Myth of the Nomen

Myth of the Scriven

Myth of the Maven

Myth of the Haven

The Grammar

indication

predication

situation

stipulation

implication

elaboration

interrogation

The Magisteria

WILL

 

WORLD

 

WE

 

WORDS

 

CONTINGENCY

 

ENTIRETY

 

INFINITY

 

MORALITY

 

The Categories

aspect-object-subject

external-internal-central

distance-duration-inertia

system-scenario-event

I-Thou-They

edification-piety-emancipation

context-classification-distinction

concept-conjecture-corroboration

compatibility-incompatibility-consequence

possible-impossible-necessary

complete-enumerated-bounded

all-none-final

initial-successor-index

selectability-divisibility-composability

loyalty-empathy-fairness

liberty-governance-revolt