4) Ontology of the Philosophy of Reality: the mutual transition “existence ↔ essence”
Existence is the most general concept of the objective side (nature, factuality).
Essence is the most general concept of the subjective side (consciousness, meaning).
Each side is known through the other: existence – as a “mode” of essence, and conversely; their continuous transition is the working fabric of reality.
5) Place among types of thinking
The Philosophy of Reality explains and reconciles the dominant tendencies of other forms of thinking:
Science: predominance of the objective (formal knowledge).
Art: predominance of the subjective (experience).
Technology and practices: their applied mixes.
The Philosophy of Reality provides a meta-level: how to sustain the balance and transitions between these poles.
6) Minimal conceptual set (working vocabulary)
Reality – the linkage of thought and thing; the “between” of subject and object; the first step of analysis is to distinguish both sides of the phenomenon.
Concept – both an informational form and a physical analogue of the object in the brain.
Truth – a two-sided correspondence of the concept to the phenomenon; falsehood / prefabrications are distortions of one of the sides.
Living concepts – integrated structures capable of “working” in consciousness as processes.
7) Norms and rules of thinking in the Philosophy of Reality
Do not substitute the sides. The ideal/material, language/world, and other dichotomies are partial projections. The Philosophy of Reality fixes precisely the subjective/objective and their transition.
Avoid one-sidedness. Reasoning “by facts only” without sensory-meaningful verification is profanation; reasoning “by experience only” without objective verification is delusion; partial coincidences are opinions, conjectures, convictions.
Standardize dispute. A good dispute is a comparison of the objective and subjective characteristics of the object and of the completeness of their mutual transition, not a clash of “my relative truth” with “yours.”
8) The Philosophy of Reality and the brain: the objective basis of the method
Cognition has a phase dynamics: accumulation of material → formation of an “analogue” → its interaction with the object; hence the lived experience of “growing understanding.”
The Philosophy of Reality affirms the natural (neurophysiological) basis of philosophizing as a function of switching brain modes.
9) Practical program
Where the Philosophy of Reality is directly useful today:
Quality of thinking: methodical testing of concepts for two-sided consistency.
Psychological work: separating experience from fact reduces fixation and obsessive loops of thought.
Health / everyday life: harmonizing modes of consciousness increases resilience and clarity of decisions.
Research and education: any subject becomes philosophical when viewed through the lens of mutual transition; at the same time PR does not replace particular sciences and does not encroach on their subject matter.
10) Relation to contemporary philosophies
The Philosophy of Reality is not “off to the side of” traditions, but their recomposition according to a working criterion:
it overcomes the diffuseness of postmodernism by restoring a single criterion of truth;
it unites the clarity of analytic philosophy with the depth of lived experience;
it resolves dualism and reductionism in the philosophy of mind through the method of two sides and their transition.
11) Criteria of quality and limits of applicability
Quality criterion: how fully and demonstrably the mutual transition of the sides is ensured for the given subject.
Limit of the method: wherever rational calculation or pure experience is sufficient on its own, philosophy is superfluous; the Philosophy of Reality is needed where the sides must be brought together.
12) Institutional steps
Course “The Basic Method of Philosophy”. Fundamental technique of distinguishing sides, building transitions, and two-sided verification.
Standards of argumentation. Fixing types of concepts (opinion / conjecture / conviction / truth) by a table of their correspondence to the sides.
Laboratories of “living concepts”. Practices of constructing and testing concepts as working processes.
Interdisciplinary hubs. Contact points of science, art, and technology as fields of application of the method without substituting their subject matters.
13) Call
The Philosophy of Reality is not just “one more” school, but a working way of thinking about any subject in which essence and existence continuously pass into one another.
Let us return to philosophy its subject – the regulation of the mutual transition of the sides of reality, its criterion of truth, and its practical usefulness for human beings and for culture.
Приложение 1. "Основной Метод Философии" Appendix 1. The Basic Method of Philosophy
Основной Метод Философии
A.Эйнштейн: Зависит ли истина от нашего сознания? Это проблема. Р.Тагор: То, что мы называем истиной, – это рациональная гармония между субъективными и объективными аспектами реальности… A.Einstein: Does the truth depend on our consciousness? This is a problem. R.Tagore: What we call truth is a rational harmony between the subjective and objective aspects of reality…
Introduction. The main problem of modern Philosophy
Modern Philosophy, unlike other disciplines, has one amazing feature: it does not know what it is. And the point here is not so much in the accuracy of the definitions of its subject matter, but in fundamental disagreements about its essence: some consider it science, others consider it art, still others consider it a special way of thinking, fourth find religion in it, fifth find mysticism, and so on, up to to those who consider it empty verbiage.
By the way, there are quite a few of the latter and their arguments are well founded: the quality of many philosophical publications is such that the difference between them and verbiage is sometimes rather arbitrary, if at all.
It should be noted that the matter of clarifying the essence of philosophy – if we talk about a common opinion – has long reached a dead end, so some suggest that philosophy should be considered what each particular philosopher thinks about it. True, this leaves open the question of how to determine who exactly is a philosopher and who is not.
Such a situation, on the one hand, attracts many people to “philosophy” who want to prove themselves in this “mysterious and incomprehensible” area, which makes it close to the people, and on the other hand, it litters it very much, as if in mathematics, along with with formulas and numbers, would use poems and music. In addition, the fuzziness of the modern understanding of philosophy attracts many individuals with fuzzy, eclectic, demagogic thinking, which in other disciplines is a sign of mental retardation.
For the same reasons, the development of philosophy itself also stopped: how can you develop something if you do not know what it is? Or, if we talk about the practical needs of understanding various life problems – what should philosophy develop to solve them, which would not be within the competence of many sciences and modern technologies? Many are looking for “wisdom” in philosophy, which is not found in the sciences and art, but if you start to understand the texts they offer for this title, it immediately becomes clear that this is a kind of fraud, only with the use of confusing terminology, which as a result does not promote solution to the problem.
