Vernacular Cloud

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 Unsayables

time

space

pattern

isolate

aggregate

void

subjectivity

The Norms

survival

flourishing

reality

beauty

meaning

truth

legitimacy

The Labyrinth of Reasons

circularity

proliferation

prejudice

disputation

subterfuge

ambiguity

oubliation

The Antinomies

Absolute Beginning

Absolute Description

Absolute Granularity

Absolute Justice

Absolute Necessity

Absolute Perspective

Absolute 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

composition

interrogation

The Semantics

word

sentence

thesis

concept

referent

metaphor

ostension

The Physical Realms

kinetics

molecularity

cosmology

planetology

metabolism

physiology

ecology

The Practical Realms

nutrition

sentience

sociality

enaction

sapience

abstraction

transcendence

The Conceptual Realms

ontos

eidos

physis

telos

dynamis

energeia

nous

psyche

logos

aletheia

techné

praxis

mythos

ethos

hylé

morphé

gramma

The Magisteria

IPSEITY

 

WORLD

 

SOCIETY

 

LANGUAGE

 

CONTINGENCY

 

ENTIRETY

 

INFINITY

 

MORALITY

 

EPIPHANY

 

The Categories

all-none-final

compatibility-incompatibility-consequence

complete-enumerated-bounded

concept-conjecture-corroboration

context-classification-distinction

device

distance-duration-energy

edification-piety-emancipation

event-system-scenario

external-internal-central

first person-second person-third person

initial-successor-index

liberty-governance-revolt

loyalty-empathy-fairness

name-description-explanation

possible-impossible-necessary

recept-aspect-object

selectability-divisibility-composability

word-sentence-thesis

The Jurisdictions

technology

ritual

art

mathematics

commerce

jurisprudence

ideology

education

The Names of God

creator

controller

provider

comforter

saviour

legitimator

magistrator