TABLE OF SEMANTIC CATEGORIES
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These 12 Semantic Categories are provided to help sort sets or types of meanings. Brief descriptors are given for each category. More closely related categories are grouped in pairs. For details of words and categories, see TABLE OF SEMANTIC CATEGORIES (List with words).
| CONTEXTS broad and specific areas and domains in thematising futures |
CONDITIONS pressing situations, concerns and settings about the future |
| ACTIONS future facing ways of performing and enacting |
POSITIONS points of view about and on the future and shaping futures |
| WORLDVIEWS perspectives and philosophies behind approaches to futures |
STATES positions and views in shaping futures |
| ACTORS persons or groupings who take part in a future related activity |
THINGS objects or artifacts involved in a future event or process |
| SENSES modes of human experience and engagement in and for the future |
FEELINGS expressions of emotions and feelings concerning the future |
| ATTRIBUTES qualities and characteristics relating to the future |
TRANSFORMATION changes and effects via applying futures concepts and methods |
| PROCESSES steps, patterns and paths to future experience and engagement |
METHODS qualitative tools and techniques for shaping futures |
| TEMPORAL time and movement aspects and elements in working with futures |
SPATIAL space and shape based elements and relations in understanding futures |
| MEDIATION means and modes of future oriented communication |
ETHICS principles, values, norms and behaviours in a future facing view |
| GOVERNANCE strategic, regulatory, policy and management of futures |
ECONOMICS financial, advantageous and business related future views |
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