SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE ABOVE DEFINITION

SIGNIFICANCE --Is the raw aboutness of *an identity* involved with its proximate relation patterns as they are presented BEFORE any meta-narratives are applied to order that aboutness .


It would help the discussion also that the definition for the term 'significant form' be presented again since it fits in with the definition of significance .

SIGNIFICANT FORM --A specific arrangement of *bounded similarities and differences* (involving specific conjunctions and disjunctions) among the presentational components that make up an item of possible experience---that can be then witnessed AFTER meta-narratives are applied to the item .

The key phrases include (in the case of the word 'significance') '

BEFORE meta-narratives are applied '

and (in the case of the phrase 'significant form' ) the phrase that reads:

'AFTER meta-narratives are applied ' ,

as well as in the case of the definition for the phrase 'significant form ' the phrase which reads ,

'similarities and differences' (involving *specific conjunctions and disjunctions*) .

Significance--involves BEFORE metanarratives are applied

Significant form --AFTER meta-narrative .

What is a meta-narrative? ---a reader may be asking .

A meta-narrative is just a fancy word to describe a narrative which describes or predicates something about another narrative. A narrative itself is just a word that refers to a describing or some sort of re-presenting of the ideational content of some item that is observed or thought about .

The aboutness that is relevant to understanding what a specific item of significance has as its content (the "what-it-is") refers to its items that are most apparent when separated from any consideration of the more drawn out relations .

The relation pattern which sets apart the defintional focal point of the "what it is" that we might call an identity, is *just barely* a relation pattern in that its intensional focus does NOT address directly the content of very many meta-categories (that's another fancy word which means categories that include other subordinate categories) . The relation pattern(s) called proximate relation pattern is what sets its focal point in a frame of reference and is concerned with plotting it as a coordinate on an axis of intensional meaning (if you don't mind that coordinate point metaphor) .

In contrast to the raw significance, a significant form refers *somewhat* more to meta-categories and tries to refer the specific piece of significance to a higher order category in a taxonomy of categories that include other categories ---(though that must be done in a linear manner without skipping any intermediate steps but, instead, in a sequence of relevance in terms of the intensional linking of concept to the most reciprocal meta-concept ....) .

There is a nifty word that is a key word to honing in on what subject matter all the talk about significance, and significant form, involves . The word is the word SUBTEND . The significant form subtends the significance .