# The reasoning layers

> The reasoning axes are arranged on these layers, each listed with the question it answers and the axes it holds.

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The reasoning axes are arranged on these layers, each listed with the question it answers and the axes it holds.

### Substrate

Details

Question
How does anything come to be?

### Epistemic

Details

Question
How is it known?

Axes
[ontology](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-ontology.md), [analysis](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-analysis.md), [reasoning](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-reasoning.md), [representation](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-representation.md), [formalisation](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-formalisation.md)

### Conative

Details

Question
What is worth doing?

Axes
[teleology](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-teleology.md)

### Evaluative

Details

Question
Is it right, and is it done?

Axes
[verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-verification.md), [termination](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-termination.md)

## Links to

- [Ontology](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-ontology.md)
- [Analysis](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-analysis.md)
- [Reasoning](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-reasoning.md)
- [Representation](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-representation.md)
- [Formalisation](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-formalisation.md)
- [Teleology](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-teleology.md)
- [Verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-verification.md)
- [Termination](https://banes-lab.com/records/reason/axis-termination.md)