Order

Any order is subjective but communicating reasons for the order you see in the world begins a long road to the objective order others see in our shared experiences.

imposed versus observed

subjective -- imposing an arrangement or connection among pieces, hence projecting an order on any given condition can be very personal. Such a subjective order is often the way an artist arranges oils on a canvas to blend, mingle or display colors, shapes, textures and visual features. See bias

objective -- imposing personal relation among persons or things becomes less subjective when others recognize the sequence, pattern, or method used appropriately to display connected items, people or places. See natural areas.

You		I
objective		subjective
social		personal

The arrangement that demonstrates strict relations or connections among varied elements is called a taxonomy.

For example:

The taxonomy of geography

Geographers create order on inhabited places depending on their size and that is an objective set of criteria --in that they are agreed upon-- to associate similar inhabited areas by their aerial size or the number of a place's residents.

size	name	approximate population
small	hamlet	< 1000
	village	1000 – 9,999
	town	10,000 – 19,999
	city	20,000 – > 1,000,000
	county	administrative size varies *
	urban region	100,000 – millions
large	Metropolitan Statistical Area: MSA	250,000 - millions; variable.

* Some cities such as San Francisco, Jacksonville, and Baltimore are contiguous with the county in which they are located. On the other extreme New York City encompasses five counties (called boroughs) of Kings, (Brooklyn), Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Richmond (Staten Island).

Define:

To order something is to arrange related and unrelated object and ideas in some recognizable manner.

• order -noun- a directive, a request for something
• order -verb- a demanding, asking, or requesting
• order -noun- the observable display of relations among of things

Important links

• reality
• Analysis
• Economics
• weltanschauung
• T. E. Hulme on description
• Ian Tattersall on falsifiable knowledge
• Warwick Fox on the use of words precisely

Simple definition of worldview is worldvu.htm.

Detailed look at worldview concept: worldviews.html

Seven Lessons about worldviews is at worldview7.html | An example of getting it wrong: worldviews.html#Meaning

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