Editing Herman Dooyeweerd (section)

===Implications of the aspects===
Briefly, aspects are ways of being meaningful and are the 'law side' of created reality.  All that occurs does so by 'answering to' the laws of each aspect (i.e. being subject to their laws).  e.g. physical waves or particles occur by the laws of the physical aspect, poetry occurs by the laws of the aesthetic aspect.  Thus, each aspect or 'law sphere' may be seen as defining a distinct kind of possibility.

Earlier aspects are determinative; later ones are normative.  Human beings function as subject in or to all aspects, animals as subject up to the sensitive aspect, plants up to the biotic, and non-living things up to the physical.  As you are reading this, you are functioning lingually by understanding it, analytically by conceptualizing, sensitively by seeing or hearing, etc.  In fact, all our functioning is multi-aspectual, though some aspects might be latent.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dooy.info/functioning.html | title = Dooyeweerd's notion of functioning | publisher = Dooy info}}</ref>

Things exist by reference to each aspect.  For example, a car exists physically as a load of steel, plastic, etc., kinematically as a mode of transport, socially as a status symbol, economically as a dent in our finances, aesthetically as a thing of beauty, biotically as a polluter, pistically as an idol, and so on.  The being of things is multi-aspectual in principle.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dooy.info/entities.html | title = Entities | publisher = Dooy info}} on how things 'exist' in relation to aspects.</ref>

Knowledge may be seen as multi-aspectual knowing.  For example, analytical knowing gives categories and theories, formative knowing gives skills, lingual knowing gives 'bodies of knowledge' as found in libraries, and so on.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dooy.info/knowing.html | title = Knowing | publisher = Dooy info}}</ref>

Each aspect defines a different rationality.  In this way, Dooyeweerd echoes Winch and Habermas, though with more precision.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dooy.info/rationality.html | title = Rationality | publisher = Dooy info}} on aspectual types of rationality.</ref>