Domain: Civilising

The degree to which a civilisation element is accepted and dis­seminated within a social circle does not establish that it is true, normat­ively right or desirable.

The more members of a social circle a civilisation element reaches, the more likely it is to spread further within that circle.

The likelihood that a new civilisation element will be incorporated into a personal civilisation is partly determined by its simplicity and comprehensibility, its perceived usefulness, the frequency with which it is presented, and the social consequences of acceptance or rejec­tion.

Technical and constructed information systems may themselves function as original sources of civilisation elements by selecting, order­ing, combining, modifying or generating the expressions presented.

Civilisation elements may be transmitted through recorded expres­sions without the original creator being involved in the transmission.

Civilisation elements presented by several sources regarded as in­dependent of one another are more likely to be considered credible.

The more closely the civilisation elements associated with a source correspond to a personal civilisation, the more trust in that source in­creases.

Which sources are regarded as reliable, expert or worthy of emula­tion is partly determined by the personal civilisation already formed.

Civilisation elements are more likely to be adopted from sources re­garded as reliable, expert or worthy of emulation.

An individual is continually presented with more civilisation ele­ments from sources than are selected for that individual’s personal civili­sation.