The Structurization Institute @ Structurization.com
For a Multidisciplinary Nominalist & Constructionist Paradigm
Founding Director, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociologist & journalist
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Words are only breaths of the voice (from Roscelin's letter to Abelard)
A spoken word, which is numerically one quality, is a universal; it is a sign conventionally appointed for the signification of many things (from Ockham's Summa Logicae)

 G and welcome. The Structurization Institute™, fictionalized as Yeshivat Hashemot™ and Ralanon'Dara™, serves as the research and educational agency of The MarkFoster.NETwork™, a cybersociology project in synchronous and asynchronous online media utilization. Among the substantive concerns of MF.N™ are religion, sociological practice, journalism, and autism studies. You are invited to join the think tank and add yourself to the group map.

 Framed by the institute's Structurization Paradigm™, structurizations (names) of tropes (attributes) are, viewed through a tiered relativism™, contingent on divine and anthropic cognitions and volitions (sola voluntas™). They are accepted due to utility, dominance, or both but can, by God's Will or human wills, be destructurized (denamed or deconstructed) and restructurized (renamed or reconstructed).

 The paradigm incorporates trope, narrative, and dialectical social constructionisms, while it selectively appropriates three nominalist-cum-particularist categories. First, a refashioned medieval nominalism posits existential dependence on the Primal Will. Second, modern nominalisms, Lockean and trope among them, are employed. Finally, the postisms, including poststructuralism and postcritical theologies, reflect a skeptical voluntarism regarding essentialism, foundationalism, or metanarratives.

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