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SPLectrum 101

SPLectrum in one line: reality disclosed in language.

Look around, listen, touch something. Whatever reaches you arrives already meaning something: the cup is on the table, the voice is behind you, the milk has turned. You never get a raw world first and work out what it is afterwards. Reality engages with you in your language: it speaks what you understand.

And “language” here is much more than words. It is the whole of how you interact, and it works like a game. Your life is full of such games: how to be a taxi driver, a parent, a friend.

SPLectrum is built on a foundation of six principles, the seed. The one line condenses those principles.

The Seed Principles 101 — the six principles one by one, in plain words.

SPLectrum calls itself the home of interrelational pluralism, and for a good reason. It sees all voices as having equal standing, and cross-pollination between viewpoints as a major driver of knowledge and understanding.

Because of this pluralist stance, it presents itself with two faces, like a coin: on one side it talks about what it finds common to all voices, on the other side it speaks with its own voice.

What is held in common — the first face of the coin: what every voice shares.
SPLectrum’s own voice — the other face: the seed principles applied further, into a voice of its own.

Before it speaks, SPLectrum listens across a broad spectrum. It sees philosophy as a modern natural philosophy: the comprehensive study of all knowledge. Though a specialised discipline, philosophy should not reside in an ivory tower. Listening first is what the large reference library on this site reflects.

See also: The Seed · Reality · Language · Positioning