Deictism

Deictism is a philosophical and hierological paradigm of Siriash characterised by a focus on demonstrating (Old Messenian δείκνυμι deíknūmi) paths to enlightenment and Ascension, through the analysis of some discussed object. It originally emerged in Messenia in the 19th century; while its essential idea could be seen as describing many other periods of Sirian learning (and counterparts in other religions), the considerable discoveries and advances of that era placed greater emphasis on interrogating unfamiliar facts and phenomena, and vindicating Siriash through them.

The main strands of deictism include modern natural science and its interpretation in relation to Sirian goals, though in this respect it often uneasily cohabits the field with methods introduced by Vaestism; and social studies that have tried to engineer society according to Sirian metrics such as in aphypnism or pancarism. Deictic learning, often characterised as building diverse kinds of inquiries towards holistic meanings affirming Sirian truths, is the central activity of institutions known as deigmations, which form the most advanced centres of learning in Siriandom today.

A common critique of deictism, and implicitly of all modern Sirian culture influenced by it, is that its practice has diverged between exercises of Asmedonic curiosity themselves, and an ideological post hoc imputation of Sirian interpretations onto topics for the sake of affirming dogmas in a positorial society.