The Actualization Diagnostic Framework—A Structured Psychological Assessment System Grounded in Aristotelian Propositional Logic
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Abstract
This paper introduces the Actualization Diagnostic Framework (ADF), a structured psychological assessment and intervention system derived from the propositional logic embedded in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Physics. The ADF organizes clinical practice across three logical tiers—Primary (foundational assessment), Intermediate (process diagnosis), and Secondary (intervention)—each grounded in formally derived propositions concerning being, generation, agency, and actuality. The system maps nine Aristotelian passages onto nine clinical instruments, producing a coherent framework in which diagnostic and therapeutic decisions follow from logical necessity rather than clinical heuristics alone. The paper describes the system’s theoretical foundations, clinical architecture, assessment instruments, and generated outputs, and concludes by examining the framework’s potential to develop into a broader meta-theoretical approach to psychological practice—one capable of integrating extant therapeutic modalities under a unified ontological structure.
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