TERMINOLOGY — canonical slugs (Wattles)
Canonical slug table for this KB. Concept notes in concepts/ are named by these
slugs. Seeded from the recurring capitalized terms of The Science of Getting
Rich (Wattles capitalizes his key concepts: Certain Way, Formless Substance,
Thinking Stuff, Increase). The "do not flatten to" column is mandatory — the
whole point of the book is that these are metaphysical claims, not motivational
slogans, and the popular reception flattens them.
| EN term (Wattles' form) | canonical slug | RU working form | do not flatten to |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Certain Way | opredelyonny-sposob |
определённый способ | «позитивное мышление» (мем) |
| Formless Substance / Original Substance | bezformennaya-substantsiya |
бесформенная субстанция, первовещество | «энергия вселенной» (эзо) |
| Thinking Stuff / Thinking Substance | myslyashchaya-substantsiya |
мыслящая субстанция | «подсознание» |
| the creative vs the competitive mind | tvorcheskiy-um-protiv-konkurentnogo |
творческий ум против конкурентного | «мышление изобилия» (коуч-жаргон) |
| gratitude / the Law of Gratitude | blagodarnost |
благодарность | «аффирмации» |
| the clear mental image | chetkiy-mentalny-obraz |
чёткий ментальный образ | «визуализация желаний» (мем) |
| faith and purpose | vera-i-tsel |
вера и цель | «вера в себя» (бытовое) |
| acting in the present | deystvie-v-nastoyashchem |
действие в настоящем | «жить моментом» (гедонизм) |
| efficient action / each day's work | effektivnoe-deystvie |
эффективное действие | «продуктивность» (тайм-менеджмент) |
| Increase / use value vs cash value | priumnozhenie |
приумножение, польза против цены | «win-win» (переговорный термин) |
Notes on flattening
- the Certain Way is Wattles' name for an exact causal discipline of thought
and action (sgr.2.2,sgr.15.8), not an attitude. Do not reduce it to «think
positive». - Formless / Thinking Substance is a monistic ontology Wattles traces to
Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, Emerson (Preface): "One is All, and that All is One".
Do not reduce it to a vague "universe". - creative vs competitive mind is the ethical hinge: "You are to create, not
to compete for what is already created" (sgr.5.26). It is not the modern
"abundance mindset" slogan; it carries a specific anti-plutocratic argument. - Increase is a technical term: giving more in use value than you take in
cash value (sgr.6.1). Not the negotiation "win-win".
Every SGR unit is period: single_work (Wattles wrote SGR in one register; there
is no early/late split within this corpus).