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1 The Nature of humans, as a species, is to seek to execute purposive action according to (at least) a rudimentary understanding of deductive, inductive, and abductive logic–A.52
2 In order to execute purposive action, humans require various goods of agency set out hierarchically in the Table of Embeddedness–A.53
3 All humans will value as “prudentially good” that which allows them personally to act–F.
4 All humans, personally, will value as “prudentially good” the acquisition of as many goods from the Table of Embeddedness as possible (in hierarchical order)—1−3.
5 Respecting the general grounds of action, all humans are alike—F.
6 Respecting the general grounds of human action, logically there can be no idiosyncratic preference—5.
7 Whatever attaches as an essential Natural condition of a species viewed contextually from the various community worldview imperatives (shared human, extended human, eco, and extended eco) is proper to that Natural species condition—F.
8 To be “mutually life-affirming in an environmental perspective” is a fundamental positive normative environmental value—A.54