| persective | voice of the text as autorizing, self-validating epistemic warrant |
| personal | subjective, idiocentric, self-referent, I, we as exclusive group |
| objective | impersonal, normal, unexceptional, cognitively realistic, it |
| diaphanic | religious, revelatory of higher view, spiritual, god(s) |
| disciplinary | schooled, expert, competent, universally referrent, we as (scientific) community |
| reality | reference of the text to what is ultimately real, not just apparent |
| existential | vivid experience, immediately lived, contingently experiential |
| substrative | material, underlying, recondite, cryptic, suppressed |
| noumenal | transcending appearances, transphenomenal, supersensibly general and ideal |
| essential | historically general and ideal, patterns, functions and values realized in nature and experience |
| method | the logical or conceptual form of the text |
| agonistic | paradoxical, contrasting concepts |
| logistic | computational, relating discrete (simple) units, mechanical |
| dialectical | sublational, synthetic unity of contrasts, emerging wholes |
| synoptic | problematic, analysis of features, whole and parts seen together as form and matter of the same holistic function |
| principle | the motivating and integrating intention of the text |
| creative | volitional, making a difference in which the new replaces the old |
| elemental | simple, self-same, repetitious, recycling the same basic element, nature or essence |
| comprehensive. | totalistic, hierarchically encompassing, perfect form of the whole |
| reflexive | autonomously active and self-completing of a variety of intrinsic functions, thought thinking itself |