Axioms
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Experience must be attended to before it can become…
Experience must be attended to before it can become meaningful.
Attention is a finite cognitive resource that must…
Attention is a finite cognitive resource that must be allocated.
Relational meaning-making has structural properties…
Relational meaning-making has structural properties that isolated individual meaning-making lacks.
Suffering that is interpreted as meaningful has different…
Suffering that is interpreted as meaningful has different psychological consequences than suffering experienced as meaningless.
Human cognition operates through schemas — structured…
Human cognition operates through schemas — structured interpretive systems that organize incoming experience into coherent patterns before conscious awareness.
Understanding always involves the meeting…
Understanding always involves the meeting of the interpreter's horizon with what is being interpreted, producing meanings that neither contains alone.
Sense of coherence (comprehensibility, manageability…
Sense of coherence (comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) predicts health and resilience independently of specific life circumstances.
Action that springs from autonomous volition satisfies basic
Action that springs from autonomous volition satisfies basic psychological needs in ways that coerced action cannot.
Retrospective memory of experience diverges systematically…
Retrospective memory of experience diverges systematically from real-time experience, with meaning shaped by peaks, endings, and narrative coherence.