GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS

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ANSI = American National Standards Institution
Anticipation: An aspect refers forward to a later one (Dooyeweerd, chapter 3).
Antinomy: A deep inconsistency or incoherency that cannot be overcome by logic
Archimedean point: a hypothetical vantage point from which an observer can objectively perceive the subject of inquiry, with a view of totality. (From Wikipedia article of the same name) 
Aspect: (In much literature) a general kind of property that is to be distinguished from others. (To Dooyeweerd) Synonymous with 'sphere of meaning and law'; this is a central concept in Dooyeweerd's thought. It is explained early in Chapter 3 in the section, 'Aspects'. 
Aspectual law: Cosmic law (q.v.) that enables and guides the functioning of the whole cosmos (Dooyeweerd) 
Assumption: A belief that makes a proposition true or false (as opposed to meaningful; see Presupposition). (Gen phil)
CATWOE: A simple checklist to help with problem solving. See the section 'Enriching SSM' in Chapter 6. In brief: C: Customers A: Actors T: Transformation process W: Weltanschauung or World view O: Ownership of the system E: Environmental constraints
CFR = Creation, Fall and Redemption Ground-Motive
Conflate: merge together; combine two into one in a way that is probably inappropriate 
Cosmic law: The transcending law-framework that enables the cosmos to be and occur, but which can never be fully known (Dooyeweerd) 
Cosmic meaning: The transcending framework of spheres of meaning which stamps the entire cosmos as Meaning (Dooyeweerd) 
Cosmic time: Dooyeweerd's notion of Time
Cosmonomic philosophy: A name for Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy
CST: Critical systems thinking (IS, chapter 6)
Dialectic: The opposing of one central idea to another in a way that is deeper than logic and involves deep commitments; thought tends to swing from one pole to the other. 
DST: Disclosive systems thinking (IS, chapter 6)
EISD: Emancipatory information systems design/development (IS, chapter 6)
Enkapsis: a relationship in which two 'wholes' are joined in a structural relationship in which both are necessary. See 'Structural relations' in chapter 3.
Entity side: See Subject side
Everyday attitude: An attitude of thinking or reflecting that is open to the richness of exeryday experience. (= 'lifeworld attitude', 'naïve attitude'). Contrasted with theoretical attitude. (Chapter 1, 3)
Everyday experience: Human experience of life in all its richness. Contrasted with theoretical observation and analysis of a narrow focus. (Chapter 1, 3)
Extant: existing, used of current thinking or ideas or discourse; still relevant and applicable. 
FFU = Framework for understanding
FMGM = Form-Matter Ground-Motive 
Foundational dependency: Each aspect (q.v.) depends on earlier ones for its positivisation (q.v.); example: social functioning cannot occur without lingual functioning. (Dooyeweerd) 
FPB = Fixed point binary number (IS, chapter 7)
Functioning (in an aspect): Response to aspectual law (q.v.). Example: in reading this you are functioning in the lingual aspect of understanding symbols, and also the psychic aspect of vision. Can be either object- or subject-functioning (q.v.). (Dooyeweerd, chapter 3) 
Gegenstand: Refers to when we 'stand over against' an object of our thought or action, rather than engage intimately with it (Dooyeweerd). In immanence philosophy that which is valid and objective in our experience. The Dooyewerdian use is discussed in 'Functional Relations' in Chapter 3.
Ground-motive: World view and driving force underlying man's actions. Dooyeweerd defined it as "moving power or spirit at the very roots of man, who so captured works it out with fear and trembling, and curiosity" (See 'Ground-Motives' in chapter 2) 
HST = Hard systems thinking (IS, chapter 6)
ICT = Information and communication technology (Here synonymous with IT and IS)
Immanence-standpoint: A deep presupposition that the fundamental Principle of all temporal reality that is may be found within temporal reality itself. It usually leads to reductionism. Example; materialism. Clouser [2005] explains it well. (Dooyeweerd) 
Immanence philosophy: Philosophy based on the immanence-standpoint (q.v.) (Dooyeweerd) 
Immanent critique: Criticism of a position or stream of thought in terms of what it itself finds meaningful and important and seeks to achieve, usually to expose presuppositions it makes to show they are contradictory.  Used especially byHb and Dooyeweerd.  (Gen phil)
Internal structural principle: The internal structural principle is a cosmic law which governs how a thing of a given type responds to the various aspects; it is what was called a type law in chapter 2.
IS = Information systems (usually includes IT, ICT, unless stated otherwise)
IT = Information technology (here synonymous with ICT, IS)
Knowledge elicitation: Coming to distinguish and know what is relevant in a domain of application for encapsulation in or as a computer system (IS, chapter 6)
Knowledge representation: Representing or expressing what is relevant in a domain in a computer language (IS, chapters 6, 7)
KR = knowledge reprsentation
KR formalism: A general kind of KR language; it embodies a theory or idea of how knowledge can be represented (IS, chpater 7)
KR language: a formal language that is used to program computers; it can be graphical as well as textual (for example box-and-arrows diagrammers) (IS, chapter 7)
Law side: The law side comprises the framework within which all can exist or happen. (Dooyeweerd)
law-side: Adjective derived from 'law side')
Lifeworld (= Life-world): The 'world' of everyday life as distinct from the scientific 'worlds' of e.g. physics, psychology, social science. Synonym for 'everyday', 'naïve' and 'pre-theoretical'. (See Chapters 1, 3)
LOFFU = Lifeworld-oriented framework for understanding
Meaning: To Dooyeweerd, this is almost a synonym for reality: all created reality *is* meaning; Meaning has the character of referring beyond. Four uses of 'meaning' delineated in chapter 2. (Dooyeweerd, chapter 2)
Meaning-and-law: The law side: the cosmic framework that enables the Cosmos to be and occur. (Dooyeweerd) 
Meaningful-functioning: Functioning in an aspect as either subject or object (q.v.)
MMORPGs = Multi-player online role-playing games: computer game played over the Internet
MUDs = Multi-User Dungeon computer game played over Internet
Naive: Simple (with negative connotation); contrast with 'naïve)
Naïve: An adjective used for experience or attitude; A synonym for everyday, pre-theoretical, lifeworld; It does not have a negative connotation (contrast 'naive'). 
NFGM = Nature-Freedom Ground-Motive 
NGGM = Nature-Grace Ground-Motive 
Normativity: The branch of philosophy concerned with good and evil; also the right versus wrong of a situation or thing. 
Noumenon: something whose existence can be be reasoned but not perceived.
Object-functioning: When something functions in an aspect as part of something else's subject-functioning. 
Ontic = of, relating to, or having real being or existence
Phenomenon: anything perceived by the senses or how we are conscious of something as distinct from the nature of the thing itself.
Positivisation: Law is positivised when some subject responds to it in time; the Cosmos is positivisation of cosmic law. (Dooyeweerd) 
Presupposition: An assumption that makes a statement or belief meaningful, rather than true; contrast Assumption (q.v.).  (Gen phil)
Qualifying aspect: The aspect which expresses the main meaning of a thing as that type of thing; Example: the qualifying aspect of a pen is the lingual. (Dooyeweerd) 
Reduction(ism): The attitude or action of trying to explain one type of meaning fully in terms of another, usually with connotations that this is undue. 
Religion: "the innate impulse of human selfhood to direct itself toward the true or toward a pretended absolute Origin of all temporal diversity of meaning, which it finds focused concentrically in itself." [Dooyeweerd, 1984,I,p.57]. NOT to be confused with particular creeds or religious practices. 
Religious root: See 'Starting Point 1: Religious Root' in Chapter 2.
Repercussion: Result of aspectual functioning. 
Represented content: Meaning of a domain that is represented in a computer (IS, chapter 4, 6)
Retrocipation: Referring back to earlier aspects (Dooyeweerd, chapter 3)
SDM = system development method (IS, chapter 6)
Shalom principle: If we function well in every aspect then things will go well, but if we function poorly in any aspect, then our success will be jeopardized. (See 'The Salom Principle' in Chapter 3).
Sphere of law, or meaning: Aspect (q.v.)
SSM = Soft systems methodology
SST = Soft systems thinking (IS, chapter 6)
Subject side: That which is subject to the law side (q.v.); synonym for the cosmos. 
	The subject side, also called entity side or fact side, comprises all that exists or occurs in the cosmos, as concrete reality, including concrete meanings that are ascriptions we make, and includes all our experience, past, present, future and potential. (Dooyeweerd, chapter 2) 
Subject-functioning: When a thing (or person) actively responds to aspectual law, as agent rather than as object. (Dooyeweerd) 
Subject-object relation: See chapter 2 'Escaping Descartes and Kant'. Dooyeweerd proposed a notion of subject and object which is radically different from that inherited from Descartes. 
Transcendent critique (Not to be confused with transcendental critique, q.v.): Criticising a position from the perspective and value-system of a completely different position (e.g. criticising Marxism from Capitalist perspective or vice versa.) Opposite of Immanent critique (q.v.).  (Gen phil)
Transcendental critique (Not to be confused with transcendent critique, q.v.): Critical analysis of a position immanently to expose the conditions that are necessary for it to be possible.  (Gen phil)
Type law: see 'Internal structural principle' (q.v.)