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natural need

(n.) An inflexible requirement a person must have to objectively function. For example, water and interpersonal connections with others. Correlates with core needs and with some resource needs, and not with access or psychosocial needs which are relatively arbitrary.

need

(n.) An objective requirement for something or for someone in order to objectively function. Without it, or without that person, you cannot fully function. Apart from a necessity to function, you have no needs.

Anankelogy distinguishes between specific needs from following out of equilibrium, necessary for functioning, and what we call a need but is actually more of a preference. If you can address your need in more than one way, this is a preference and not the need itself. 

For example, you may see you need a bottle of water. But you literally, in this anankelogical sense of the word, do not "need" the bottle. You only "need" the water inside. The water can restore your body's fluid equilibrium and temperature equilibrium; the bottle itself cannot.

More specifically, anankelogy breaks down a need into four levels. Let's illustrate this with fluid equilibrium.

1. Core need:  fluid disequilbrium.

2. Resource need:  water to restore fluid equilibrium.

3. Access need:  bottle, cup or drinking fountain.

4. Psychosocial need:  who is to get you the water you require, you or another?

Anankelogy may use different terms for this central need.

• core need

• inflexible need

• natural need

• unchosen need

Each of these address the same thing, as distinct from what we may colloquially label as a need.

need-response cycle

(n.) - REFUNCTION

Four quadrant cycle from alert to a specific need, to assess its need experience, to audit responsiveness to it, to avow to resolve it, and back around again until all needs fully resolve. See image here.

need-response conflation

(n.) - DEFUNCTION

Failing to distinguish between unchosen needs and chosen responses to them. Easily provokes defenses when unable to change what another demands. See adversarialism, avoidance culture, avoidant adversarialism, conflict porn, indulgent side-taking, mutual defensiveness and oppo culture.

need-responsive

(adj.) - opposite of feel-reactive. Putting more of an emphasis on identifying and addressing the needs evoked by a situation than trying to ease the discomfort of such needs. Applies a disciplined approach: more descriptive than normative. Delays gratification of responding immediately to thoroughly describe what is honestly affecting all the relevant needs. Exists as the opposite of feel-reactive.

nomoscentricity

(n.) - DEFUNCTION

The defunction of prioritizing human law or social norms over addressing or resolving the needs for which they exist to serve. Correlates with the defunction of normative alienation. Manifest in authoritarian attitudes presenting attempts to officially control behavior to avoid uncomfortably engaging (i.e., discomfort avoidance) the specific unresolved needs behind that behavior. Exists in the context of the power delusion.

Informally referred to as civic legalism or simply legalism. Corrected in need-response primarily by the refunction of citationization, or less formally referred to as law-fit.

normative alienation

(n.) - DEFUNCTION

The defunction of socially privileged expectations and established social norms to not personally engage with one another, and rely instead on impersonal rules to guide behavior toward each other. Such estrangement correlates with the hyper-individualism of psychosocial imbalance.

not-that

(n.) The self-righteous generalization that refuses an uncomfortable characterization, which effectively shuts down communication and awareness of how the association could aptly fit the description, even if not to the degree ascribed. I.e., denial of awareness of how it could possibly be that, even if only on some minimal level, implies that it actually is that. See relief-generalizing. Exists as a type of discomfort avoidance.

Examples across the ideological divide:

• not-anticonservative

• not-antisemitic

• not-censorship

• not-genocidal

• not-hate speech

• not-Islamophobic

• not-overregulated

• not-racist

• not-transphobic