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Below are two images summarizing some of the distinctions that have been made between the two paradigms of Positivism and Neutral Monism
(1) The left hand figure presents an overview of how I went about the task. Moving from left to right: the first stage was that of the separation of the wheat from the chaff. Next came an extension of the compass of Natural Law needed to fully account for the phenomena of life and mind. This augmentation is in any case needed, quite apart from questions of ontological transplantation. It is demanded by the bankruptcy of the Artificial Intelligence initiative and of NeDarwinism as a sufficient explanation of organic evolution. The intellectual has gone to extravagant lengths in attempts to dodge this undertaking. Finally, the third stage has been that of coupling the realm of existence -at both material and mental levels to the realm of Transcendence.
(2) That on the right may be regarded as an elaboration of that already given
Apart from the six chapters that comprise the core of this website, separate page sets are presented that give a more detailed account of the competing paradigms.