Appendices

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Appendix 1: Type deductions from first principles

Independent deductions of the five types from eight contrasting pairs concerning freedom, justice, human nature, mother nature, material risk, social risk, identity, and managing needs and resources.

It doesn’t matter what the premises are, the result is always the same five WOLT types.

Appendix 2: Lists of axial issues

Lists of the axial positions of dozens of social issues that people must deal with in order to live together.

• Table A2.1 over 100 combinations of relational issues on the X Y Z axes. All of these have the potential to falsify the theory.
• Table A2.2 Two dozen general tendencies on the X and Y axes
• Table A2.3 lists XY issue pairs which show the things-people reversal
• Table A2.4 Conflicting religious issues on X Y and how 2-ism copes.

Appendix 3: Ways of life table

Comparing the five ways of life (or ideologies, moralities, worldviews, mindsets, orientations).

Eleven pages of small print include examples, illustrations, literature and quotations across the range values, social relations and lifestyles affecting practically every area of human interaction.

Appendix 4: Theorists

Eight theorists who form social types from two dimensions are known. Apart from a couple of mistakes, they all get the same types as WOLT.

Appendix 5: Typologists

Dozens of scholars have invented typologies without dimensions. The types are intuited from reality or from the literature and are WOLT’s Types 1, 2, 3. Type 4 and Type 5 are not noticed.

Appendix 6: WOLT glossary

Way of life theory’s jargon set out clearly.

With minimal background knowledge, the glossary can be read as a sort of summary of WOLT.