title: Five universal exigencies, indicatrons and sexological theory.
abstract: In sexology as science, except for the special case of introspection, on which the defense of mind-body dualism rests, raw data are obtained, like the raw data of all the other sciences, through the special senses and exteroceptive observation. In Table 1 are shown the verbs and nouns that are needed to relate the five special senses of the observer to the observed, as stimuli are transmitted to their destination from their source. Some of these terms sound somewhat unidiomatic, which is no accident. It is precisely because vernacular English was not designed for scientific usage that some needed terms have been lacking--to the detriment of theoretical mindbody unity. Another missing term in sexology as science is a generic one for any type of unit of raw data. The gap can be filled with the new term, indicatron, in recognition of the fact that sexology's units of raw data all serve to indicate something. Since exactly the same applies to the raw data of any science, then sexology and the other sciences share the same premise. The sociopsychological and the biomedical sciences from which sexology conjointly derives are not separated as being of the mind and the body respectively. They are unified in indicatronics, the science of indicatrons, in which the split between body and mind is semantically irrelevant. The indicatrons of sexology can be classified under five universal exigencies of being human: being pairbonded, troopbonded, abidant, yclept, and foredoomed.
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