Editing Herman Dooyeweerd (section)

===Aspects===
The positing of meaning as fundamental, and the priority given to our pre-theoretical experience of diverse meaning, prompts the thinker to ask, "what ways are there of being meaningful, which cannot be reduced to each other?"  Or, in other words, what different aspects are there of things?  He delineated fifteen, which are not mere categories, but modalities (ways of being, functioning, etc):<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dooy.info/aspects.html | title = Aspects | publisher = Dooy info}}</ref>
* Quantitative aspect: amount
* Spatial aspect: continuous extension
* Kinematic aspect: flowing movement
* Physical aspect: energy, matter
* Biotic/Organic aspect: life functions, self-maintenance
* Sensitive/Psychic aspect: feeling and response
* Analytical aspect: distinction, conceptualization
* Formative aspect: formative power, achievement, technology, technique
* Lingual aspect: symbolic communication
* Social aspect: social interaction
* Economic aspect: frugal use of resources
* Aesthetic aspect: harmony, surprise, fun
* Juridical aspect: due (rights, responsibility)
* Ethical aspect: self-giving love
* Pistic aspect: faith, vision, commitment, belief

Dooyeweerd claimed that since the discovery of these is addressed by our theoretical functioning, which is fallible, no suite of aspects, including his own, can "lay claim to material completion".{{Sfn | Dooyeweerd | 1997 | p = II.554}}