The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal custodian of the words incorporated into the English language in which this philosophy is written. When the second edition was published in 1989, the OED comprised 21,728 pages, in 20 volumes, with 301,100 main word entries and 616,500 word-forms in total, including 137,000 pronunciations; 249,300 etymologies; 577,000 cross-references; and 2,412,400 usage quotations. The longest entry is for the verb "set", which required 60,000 words to describe some 580 senses of it. In short, the very richness of the English language makes it a most unsuitable language for use in attempting to communicate so unctuous a subject as a philosophy because the words can have so many different and shades of meanings.

The description of the philosophy that follows must recognize, of necessity, that words can have very different means by various writers and readers in various contexts. The speaker knows what meaning they intended for the words to have when communicated to the reader or listener, but does not know what meaning the reader or listener ascribes to them. As such, an effort has been made to use words herein with lesser chances of misunderstanding by readers and listeners of what the writer intended.

A number of words have been uniquely defined for purposes of this philosophy with specific intended meanings, to the exclusion of all other meanings of them. For the purpose of understanding the meaning of these words, the reader is admonished to ignore any and all other meanings these words they may or may not have during its reading.

Those words uniquely defined for purposes of this philosophy are written in the text in bold letters. Textural reference is given for each of them in the appended Glossary of Defined Terms.