Stratification framework refers to a philosophical approach in viewing the natural world, as being grouped in certain specific categories or layers, known as stratifications. This approach was very prominent prior to the 20th century. It was a major concept in philosophical ideas of Artistotle, such as his theory of
categories
Category, plural categories, may refer to:
General uses
*Classification, the general act of allocating things to classes/categories Philosophy
*Category of being
* ''Categories'' (Aristotle)
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[What Happened to the Stratification View of Nature? The rise, fall, and revival of the stratification view of nature](_blank)
Henriques, Gregg Ph.November 1, 2024, Psychology Today. These ideas had a noticeable decline in the 1950s.
Some current theorists have sought ways to restore this idea as an active method. One notable researcher, Dr. Gregg Henriques, has promulgated one such theory, which posits "four planes of existence in nature and technology." He lists these four planes as follows: "Matter-object, life-organism, mind-animal, culture-person." He links this to a system of philosophy known as "
metamodernism
Metamodernism (from meta- and modernism) is the term for a cultural discourse and paradigm that has emerged after postmodernism. It refers to new forms of contemporary art and theory that respond to modernism and postmodernism and integrate aspec ...
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5 Phases in the Evolution of Human Cultural Sensibilities: Tracing the evolution of human consciousness and culture in five phases
by Gregg Henriques Ph.D.October 4, 2019, Psychology Today.
See also
* Naturalism
*Categories (Aristotle)
The ''Categories'' (; or ) is a text from Aristotle's '' Organon'' that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotel ...
*Four causes
The four causes or four explanations are, in Aristotelianism, Aristotelian thought, categories of questions that explain "the why's" of something that exists or changes in nature. The four causes are the: #Material, material cause, the #Formal, f ...
* First cause
The unmoved mover () or prime mover () is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary Causality (physics), cause (or first uncaused cause) or "Motion (physics), mover" of all the motion in the universe. As is implicit in the name, the moves oth ...
* Anthropic principle
In cosmology, the anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations are only possible in ...
* Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics (from the Ancient Greek, Greek βίος ''bios'', "life" and σημειωτικός ''sēmeiōtikos'', "observant of signs") is a field of semiotics (especially Neurosemiotics) and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-makin ...
* Tinbergen's four questions
Tinbergen's four questions, named after 20th century biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, are complementary categories of explanations for animal behaviour. These are commonly called levels of analysis. It suggests that an integrative understanding of beh ...
* Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function but were not present in the last comm ...
* Five whys
Five whys (or 5 whys) is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem by repeati ...
* Four discourses
Four discourses is a concept developed by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. He argued that there were four fundamental types of discourse. He defined four discourses, which he called Master, University, Hysteric and Analyst, and suggested tha ...
, by Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...
* Proximate and ultimate causation
A proximate cause is an event which is ''closest'' to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result. This exists in contrast to a higher-level ultimate cause (or distal cause) which is usually thought of as the "real" reason so ...
* Socrates
Socrates (; ; – 399 BC) was a Ancient Greek philosophy, Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the Ethics, ethical tradition ...
* Teleology
Teleology (from , and )Partridge, Eric. 1977''Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English'' London: Routledge, p. 4187. or finalityDubray, Charles. 2020 912Teleology. In ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' 14. New York: Robert Appleton ...
* The purpose of a system is what it does
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer, who stated that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly ...
*Hylomorphism
Hylomorphism is a philosophical doctrine developed by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, which conceives every physical entity or being ('' ousia'') as a compound of matter (potency) and immaterial form (act), with the generic form as imm ...
* Signs § Charles Sanders Peirce
Examples
*Root cause analysis
In science and engineering, root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems. It is widely used in IT operations, manufacturing, telecommunications, industrial process control, ...
*Iterated function
In mathematics, an iterated function is a function that is obtained by composing another function with itself two or several times. The process of repeatedly applying the same function is called iteration. In this process, starting from some ...
*5S (methodology)
5S (Five S) is a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: , , , , and . These have been translated as 'sort', 'set in order', 'shine', 'standardize', and 'sustain'. The list describes how to organize a work space f ...
*A3 problem solving
A3 problem solving is a Structuring, structured Problem solving, problem-solving and Continual improvement process, continuous-improvement approach, first employed at Toyota and typically used by lean manufacturing practitioners.; ; It provides a ...
*Eight disciplines problem solving
Eight Disciplines Methodology (8D) is a method or model developed at Ford Motor Company used to approach and to resolve problems, typically employed by quality engineers or other professionals. Focused on product and process improvement, its purpo ...
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