2 attraction of a hierarchical scheme
3 attributing transcendent value, importance or meaning to the physical universe
4 Atomism, by which I mean the ideal of explaining
5 the need for a hierarchical cosmology
7 the horizontal understanding of life and mind
8 "Lower levels of physical reality are nested within "higher" ones
10 whatever gives order, pattern, meaning, and definiteness to things
12 an arena that we may refer to as "the realm of the possible."