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Flat ontology is an ontology not separated into different ontological categories (organism, species, genera), but rather made exclusively of unique singular individuals that differ in spatio-temporal scale but not in ontological status.

A Minor science is a science based not merely on convention but on the interaction and partnership with materials themselves. For the carpenter sanding wood, carpentry is a question of surrendering to the wood-you sand with the grain. This is not a convention. Rather there is something in the microstructure in the grain that is asking you to enter into a kind of partnership to be the combination of the two.

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Singularity is topological rather than geometrical answer to the ordinary (not the plural as the name suggests). It goes after a minimal point which is in fact not merely a point but also a chaos loop. It gives matter tendencies and argues against inertness, eliminating laws.

A Solicitation is the surrendering to the material at hand, much like the carpenter who surrenders to the wood, allowing himself to be beckoned by the microstructure in the grain of the wood.

An Urbdisease is a disease such as smallpox or measles which is dependent on a certain density of population.

The Virtual is not at all like the virtual reality which digital simulations have made so familiar, rather, the term refers to a real virtuality, that is the virtual as a vital component in the forming of the objective world.