Monday, August 15, 2011

Will, Comprehension, Comprehensiveness

In common parlance, the terms 'comprehension' and 'comprehensiveness' are seemingly unrelated--the former refers to a mental state, while the latter characterizes the scope of something. The conceptual connection between the two becomes more evident when Comprehension is recognized as a process of synthesizing a manifold, thereby entailing a scope that can be described as more or less comprehensive. Now, as has been previously discussed, the immediate matter of Comprehension is Will, a manifold of volitions that can be quantified as 'vols'. Hence, actions can be compared in terms of the degree of volitional comprehensiveness--e. g. running, entailing more vols than walking, is a more comprehensive action than the latter--and can be evaluated accordingly.

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