[MD] Idealistic static value patterns

[Tuukka Virtaperko]

Hi Ian! Glad to see you participate.


> Ian said:
>
> Two questions, whilst you refine it ...
> (1) What does the "D" signify ?

Tuukka:

The D signifies "descriptive". That is, any category with D in the name 
is a descriptive abstraction of romantic quality. Romantic quality 
therefore does not have D in the name, and neither does normative 
quality. Even though normative quality is isomorphic with the 
descriptive abstractions of romantic quality, it's not isomorphic with 
romantic quality itself.

> Ian said:
> (2) "Romantic" gets to prefix a whole set, but "Classical" is unsaid anywhere ?

Tuukka:
All categories not marked romantic are classical.

> Ian said:
> Puts me in mind of an ancient attempt at what I called a "circle of
> life" that tried to capture the full spectrum of evolving patterns
> (recognizing two-way causation between them) - but I was never happy
> with it enough to publish it. Must see if I can dig it up from
> somewhere, see if it is of any use.
>
> Pushed for time too, with post-new-year work inbox and actions to get
> on top of. ;-)
>
>

Tuukka:
Interesting! I hope you'll find the original picture.

The mistake in my picture is that I've connceted categories xx to 
categories D+xx in inverse order compared to how I should have done 
that. I used to need to have a strange "twist" in these diagrams, so I 
duplicated the twist because of a habit. But now that the patterns are 
circular, the twist is, curiously enough, no longer needed.

-Tuukka