Do you not have a dominant tone? A way of being, of moving through the world? Can we not call this your paradigm, and insist with Kuhn that your way forward–IF you move forward, which most people do not, in important ways–is through paradigm shifts, or what I would tend to call qualitative progress?
Is there not phlogiston in your very being, right now? I think there is. Certainly, it courses in my veins. I breathe it in, and watch it disappear. I don’t know where it goes, or where and who I was just a moment ago.