R

reactive culture

(n.) Set of social norms privileging feel-reactive reactions over need-responsive considerations. Features toxic legalism. Contrasts with responsive culture (see below).

reactive pain relief

(n.) - DEFUNCTION

A defunction of reacting to the discomfort of unresolved needs by immediately trying to ease its discomfort with little to no thought of how ignoring the unresolved needs evoking such pain tends to persist and potentially intensify the pain ineffectually avoided. Defunction similar to passive-aggressive pain relief. Contrasts with the refunctions of strategic pain relief and discomfort embrace.

Recognized Impactee [RI]

(n.) [wellness campaign terminology] A person or entity recognized as impacted more from those in positions of power than they impact the social power relation. Prior to such powerholders acknowledging such potent influence, the RI is regarded as a Reporting Impactee.

reflexive correlation

(n.) An empirically observable association between two or more variables that seem to change each other, which can suggest a cyclic relationship between the identified variables. While correlation is not necessarily causation, social science research typically anticipates one variable (the dependent variable) to change as an apparent consequence of another preceding variable (the independent variable).

See cyclic correlation. The nature-based paradigm of academic anankelogy anticipates a string of dependent variables looping together to suggest that anything definable as an independent variable requires it to be isolated as a predecessor to a particular dependent variable in that part of the ongoing cycle. Each independent variable to a particular dependent variable can then be viewed as a dependent variable to a preceding variable in that cycle.

refunction

(n.) Anything that raises one's ability to function more fully, improving their wellness. Opposite to a defunction.

relational knowing

(n. & v.) - RK (abbr.) - REFUNCTION

To directly understand something by identifying how one thing appears to go along with another, allowing you to create your own testable hypotheses. You identify for yourself the associations between two or more things affecting your needs. You observe four types of associations:

1. more-more: more of this, then more of that (“positive relation” as both move in same direction)

2. more-less: more of this, then less of that (“negative relation” as both move in opposite directions)

3. less-more: less of this, then more of that (“negative relation” as both move in opposite directions)

4. less-less: less of this, then less of that (“positive relation” as both move in same direction)

See image here.

relief-gen

(n.) relief-generalizing (v.) - DEFUNCTION

The defunction of oversimplifying a reaction to some need to gain broad support for relieving its pain, typically resulting in more pain since the overgeneralization overlooks the specifics necessary to fully resolve the needs. This typically results in more pain from these unresolved needs, which in turn feeds this vicious cycle of continually generalizing for relief. See popgen.

Reporting Impactee [RI]

(n.) [wellness campaign terminology] A person or entity asserting they are impacted more from those in positions of power than they impact the social power relation. Once acknowledged by the powerholder of such potent influence, the RI is regarded as a Recognized Impactee.

residual pain

(n.) 

resolution path

(n.) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION

Identified steps to resolve a need or needs. Once identified and announced to others for their feedback, the identified steps get appropriately adjusted to include respect for the affected needs of others. Once concluding such inputs, the process commits all involved to enable resolution of the identified natural needs on all sides, and to also confront any selfish impediment resisting resolution. Applies to the "avowal" phase of the need-response cycle in a wellness campaign.

resolution-friction

(n.) - DEFUNCTION

Any resistance to fully resolving needs. Does not have to be intentional, but frequently results from an intent to avoid the pain of reported threats to functioning. This includes well-established social norms like the adversarial approach of legal systems in the judicial process and in politics. The historical way these legal structures favors a relieve-over-resolve approach tends to resist a resolve-over-relieve effort to fully resolve needs. The resulting pain typically reinforces the norms to prioritize relief over fully resolving needs that could remove cause for such pain. There is no such thing as pain apart from the body reporting a perceived theat to functioning.

response conflation

(n.) - DEFUNCTION

Another name for the defunction of moral conflation.

response distinction

(n.) - REFUNCTION

Another name for the refunction of moral distinction.

response reputation

(n.) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION

One's informally or officially recognized trustworthiness to respect the needs of others.

responsive culture

(n.) Set of social norms favoring need-responsive considerations over feel-reactive reactions. Counters toxic legalism. Contrasts with reactive culture (see above).

responsivism

(n.) The belief and practice that responding to the unchosen needs of others, before addressing any chosen responses to such needs, can produce more favorable results than adversarial alternatives. Counters the moral conflation inherent in avoidant adversarialism with moral distinction, as a way to more effectively address and solve social problems.

Need-response is the profession while responsivism is the activity.

Examples:

• Personally Responsive to apply moral distinction

• Responsive Supervision

• Responsive Depolarization for depolarizing politics

• Responsive Innocence for the wrongly convicted innocent

responsivist

(n.) One dedicated to applying responsivism to address social problems, as an alternative to adversarial activism that easily slips into the problem of moral conflation, which tends to perpetuate pain and problems.

rhetorical need

(n.) The widely accepted reference to a flexible or optional way to restore functioning, in contrast to anankelogical reference to an actual 'need' as

• inflexible (in contrast to flexible options),

• innate (in contrast to arbitrary experience),

• natural or organic (in contrast to humanly constructed),

• unchosen (in contrast to chosen responses).

A rhetorical need is not recognizable as objective fact, as it can be characterized as subjectively

• flexible,

• arbitrary,

• constructed, or

• chosen.

Timing provides the basic distinction. The actual need occurs first, prior to awareness. The rhetorical need then follows, in response to it.

Anankelogy recognizes how your core needs exist as objective facts independent from subjective experience. Your life's requirement to function occurs prior to your emotional responses to such needs. We colloquially refer to many of these responses as a need. "I need a pencil" for example, but a writing utensil itself can never restore me to optimal functioning. I say I need a pencil as it rhetorically symbolizes how I prefer to respond to my objective need to not forget my thoughts.

Anankelogy characterizes any rhetorical need as more of a "preference" than an actual need. If there is any flexibility for how to restore wellness, or functionality, then it is more likely an arbitrary rhetorical need and not a specific objective need in the anankelogical sense.

Examples:

• "I need a 'bottle' of water." You can get water from out of a cup or another way.
  Water is the actual, objective need, not the container for it.

• "I need a 'map'." You can find a route in alternative ways.
  Travel direction is the objective need.

• "I need your 'email address'." You can contact others in different ways.
  Social connection is the actual need.

• "I need 'to go home'." You likely could go to other locations to satisfy this purpose.
  Shelter is the objective need.

• "I need to replace the oil in my car." You can function without replacing your car's oil.
  Transportation security is the actual need.

• "She needs my phone number." She could contact you in other ways.
  Interpersonal communication is the objective need.

• "My boss needs me to come in early." Arriving the usual time only affects you indirectly.
  Economic security or resource security is the actual need.

We generally prefer to convey to others how we prefer they respond to our actual needs by citing such rhetorical needs. There is some safe room for change if they refuse. We generally prefer to avoid the uncomfortable vulnerability of directly expressing an actual need that we cannot change.

We easily slip into conflicts when failing to distinguish between these actual needs and our rhetorical references to them. Anankelogy identifies this problem as moral conflation. And corrects this problems with moral distinction that affirms your inflexible actual needs before questioning any flexible rhetorical responses to them. This may include character refunctions that could make it easier to recognize and acknowledge the difference.

See the four anankelogical levels of experiencing your needs.

RI client

(n.) [wellness campaign terminology] Another identifier of a campaigner. Or the person with the targeted wellness goal in a wellness campaign led by a proxy. More broadly, can apply to wellness campaign members who hold no official power over others in the campaign, typically in the TEAM phase.