Before Reading the Contextivism Document, a New Worldview and Cosmology Contextivism (脈絡論, 脈絡主義) is an ontology that clarifies how all things in the world exist, and it is also a cosmology that explains what the fundamental principle of the universe is. Contextivism is not an academic theory like philosophy or science, but is closer to religious insight. Therefore, since it explains existence and the universe at a meta-level, it is difficult to judge whether it is academically or rationally right or wrong. However, since it has been explained through intuitive, logical, and common-sense reasoning, intellectuals will be able to understand and sympathize with it quite readily. Because it is a cosmology, it may be easy to think that it is abstract and has little to do with human everyday life. However, because it explains the essence of existence, it can be directly applied to scholarship, art, religion, and everyday life, including food, clothing, and shelter. Contextivism is closely related to all problems concerning human beings. / Humanity was, so to speak, thrown into the world without knowing anything, and therefore adapted to the world and survived using only instinct and basic reason. As experience and knowledge accumulated and consciousness further developed, civilization can be said to have begun in earnest during the Bronze Age. However, because the animalistic and instinctive senses that humanity had used while adapting to the world over millions of years were so deeply rooted, they also had a great influence on rational ways of thinking. To begin with, the premise that objects(things) exist is taken for granted. And humanity has an ordinary sense of reality according to which stones, trees, animals, and people are individually dealt with and treated as separate entities. Naturally, oneself, other people, and physical objects are distinguished from one another and exist separately. If objects are not distinguished separately, they cannot be utilized, words cannot be established, and rational judgments cannot be made either. However, such a sense of reality was naturally necessary for survival and had great practical utility, but it was not the essence of existence. Existence does not come into being independently on its own, but is established only within the 'context' of environment and relationships. This is the core insight of Contextivism and the essence of existence that modern humanity most urgently needs to understand. 'Independent Ontology' was the 'metaphysical geocentrism' of human consciousness. The geocentric way of thinking, according to which the Earth is the center of the universe, caused almost no problems in practical reality, and its calculations were also fairly accurate. However, with the emergence of heliocentrism, it became clear that geocentrism was a practical but immature worldview. Likewise, the common sense and sense of reality of 'Independent Ontology' were ways of thinking that had great practical utility and were essential for survival, but humanity has now reached the point at which it must understand that they are not the truth. / Western civilization has been built, from ancient Greece to the present day, upon common sense and a worldview that believe in independent existence. However, since the late 19th century, as civilization rapidly developed and the times changed, humanity began to encounter many phenomena that could not be explained by the common sense of Independent Ontology. Such problems arose in various academic disciplines, including evolutionary theory, biology, psychology, sociology, linguistics, physics, and philosophy. In practical academic disciplines, these issues have been dealt with somewhat pragmatically, in the manner that independent existence is acknowledged while relationships are also recognized. However, in philosophy and physics, which deal with the essence of existence, a small number of scholars began to struggle with the contradictory problem of explaining independent existence and relationality (dependence). However, because this is an extremely difficult metaphysical problem, only a very small number of philosophers have so far established and published philosophical systems addressing it. Yet, denying the thousands-of-years-old common belief in independent existence is something that most people find difficult to accept. Furthermore, because relational metaphysics has been explained in difficult terms and with obscure terminology, even philosophers find it difficult to understand. Moreover, although anyone is free to construct a metaphysical philosophy and publish it in a book, it is difficult to believe in a new metaphysical philosophy when idealist metaphysics has already been recognized as being far removed from the truth. In physics, a problem arose in that the existence of electrons (quanta) could not be adequately explained in terms of common sense. However, since physics is not philosophy, physicists provisionally adopted a standard interpretation and proceeded to concentrate on calculations and experiments. However, even now, in the 21st century, both philosophy and physics remain in confusion, wavering over which is the truth between independent existence and relationality (dependence). Ecology, network science, and systems science are practical sciences, so they have not engaged much in philosophical contemplation. Instead, they have conducted research by pragmatically acknowledging both independent existence and relationality. From the late 19th century to the present, a small number of scholars have pointed out that there are grounds to question ontological geocentrism (Independent Ontology). However, because there is no conclusive evidence that geocentrism is wrong and no clear alternative explanation has been established, this is an issue that most scholars and intellectuals neither pay attention to nor even know about. / Contextivism is an approach that adds 'environment' to individual existence and relationality. In other words, existence is not independent, but is necessarily established only within an environment and relationships. Relationships are clearly visible to people, but environments become transparent as people become accustomed to them, making them extremely difficult to be conscious of. There are also many invisible environments. Since environment and relationships can be expressed by the term context, it is Contextual Ontology. Contextual Ontology clearly overcomes the geocentrism of Independent Ontology and also goes beyond relational metaphysics. It is difficult to approach the truth through the Western-style dichotomous way of thinking that asks whether existence is independent or relational. / However, the Contextivism document deals not only with the contextual nature of existence but also with the problem of 'generation'. Therefore, since it reveals too many truths all at once, most people are highly likely to become confused. First, it is important for most people to clearly understand that an independent ontology (geocentrism) was a practical error. Since Contextual Generative Theory is a specialized field, everyone except intellectuals and scholars who are interested in it only needs to know a little about it at the level of common sense. And since Contextivism deals with the essence and principles of existence and the universe, it is inevitably related to the religious domain as well. The intention was to reveal the truth independently of religion, but if its conclusions are similar to those of religion, there is no way to avoid mentioning it. Some people may sympathize with the logic and explanations of Contextivism but still develop some doubts regarding its connection with religion. However, the Contextivism document was not written for the purpose of emphasizing any particular religion. Copernicus's heliocentric theory also emerged when its time had come, and the same applies to Contextivism. Contextivism has emerged because the time has come for humanity to move beyond the common sense and worldview of Independent Ontology. =============== Main Presentation: Contextivism Guidance after reading the document on Contextivism