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In Ground and Fundamentality in Plato and Aristotle. New York: Routledge. pp. 299-322. 2026Disputes about ground and fundamentality are connected to a cluster of questions about essences, definitions, explanation, priority, and knowledge. Aristotle and Plato of course disagree on a number of these issues, but one of the least understood concerns the nature and value of “division,” i.e. seeking an…

We formulate a condition for the admissibility of parametrized trajectories in relativistic spacetime based on compatibility between worldline ordering and causal structure. A trajectory represents the history of a single physical system only if its parameter ordering agrees with the causal ordering defined by the spacetime metric. It follows that any trajectory for which this condition fails can…

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_The Aquamarine Law Rectifier_ 1:20. 2026This paper develops a philosophy of law from a selected-logical architecture. Its central claim is that law is not bare text plus facts. Law becomes operative only after a legal evaluator is selected: a regime of interpretation, doctrine, jurisdiction, evidentiary admissibility, procedural posture, burdens, remedies, institutional authority, and status att…

While our previous papers on the Axiom of Structural Identity (ASI) and Entropic Dispersion established a robust philosophical and meta-mathematical framework for navigating the set-theoretic multiverse, the strict formalization of these concepts necessitates precise model-theoretic boundaries. The conceptual architecture of the Methodological Principle of Operational Integrity (MPOI) fundamental…

An antinatalist and author of the thought experiment "Free Evaluator" has pondered an alternative method for fighting bots. Warning: The author is not an IT specialist, so this article may be deeply flawed, trivial, or even reinvent the wheel.

_Lex Et Ratio Ltd_. 2026This paper advances a social-epistemological account of research metrics as epistemic infrastructure: socio-technical systems whose outputs function as authoritative signals within institutional practices of evaluation. Citation counts, download statistics, h-index scores, and rankings are not merely descriptive indicators but inputs into decisions about promotion, funding…

Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and neuro-symbolic Automated Theorem Provers (ATPs), face severe limitations regarding semantic preservation and out-of-distribution reasoning. When attempting to transfer inferential logic across heterogeneous mathematical domains, these systems frequently suffer from "semantic hallucinations" and catastrophic f…

_Asian Journal of Philosophy_ 5 (1):44. 2026This paper responds to Allan Hazlett’s critique that hinge epistemology falls victim to the wrong kind of reason challenge. Further, it responds to Giorgio Volpe’s concerns regarding hinge epistemology as it is presented in Trust Responsibly. ( direct link )

This paper presents a critical refutation of The Impossibility of an Actually Infinite Future by Wakil Ahmad Hakimi. The central thesis of the original work—that an infinite future is metaphysically incoherent due to grounding, locatability, and traversal constraints—is shown to rest on a series of unjustified assumptions, equivocations, and structural missteps. In particular, the argument fails …

This paper argues that evolution is not a biological mechanism but a universal operator: a substrate‑independent process that transforms undifferentiated possibility into coherent, self‑maintaining form. The operator has a stable, domain‑invariant structure—variation, selection, and retention—and this structure appears across physical, chemical, biological, cognitive, cultural, and technological …

Dogmatists employing easily forgeable notions of intelligence have spread the repeated credo that intelligence and consciousness must necessarily correspond to two fundamentally different, entirely unrelated concepts and declared the ignorance of every differing philosophical view while concurrently claiming that nobody is able to scientifically clarify what consciousness signifies in the first p…

The constitution pattern operates at organizational thresholds in self-maintaining systems under thermodynamic pressure, with each threshold constituting a new structural feature describable from within itself through constitutive identity. The metaphysical relation is settled, but the operational question of what each threshold's enclosure takes up from the world that pre-exists it has been deve…

_AI and Society_. forthcomingI consider some ways autistic people use AI chatbots for companionship and connection, and some distinctive benefits and harms that may follow from this usage—particularly as it relates to the virtue of authenticity. Drawing on first-person reports, as well as debates about the extended mind and extended virtues, I argue that while AI systems lack authenticity, they m…

How do formal representations displace institutional intent? This paper examines how institutions can appear aligned and high-performing while drifting from their stated purpose. It argues that this condition arises because intent does not enter decision-making directly: to guide action, it must be translated into criteria, metrics, and allocation rules. In this process, what begins as a represen…

_International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS)_ 9 (IIIS):1019 - 1026. 2025Zambia is a multilingual Nation with 73 ethnic languages in use and one of the languages English has been adopted as the official language used in official communication. The study explored translanguaging practices in counselling sessions of university students in Zambia. This study adopted a …

This companion guide to "Pattern Recognition in Discrete Twisted Lattices: A Descriptive Study of Scaling Behavior and Finite-Size Effects" (Jacoby, 2026) makes the formal results accessible to non-specialist readers, inviting interdisciplinary engagement with the epistemological questions they raise. We document the recursive journey behind the findings, tracing the discovery and subsequent fals…

_Synthese_. forthcomingWe admire some bureaucracies for their ability to efficiently organize the production of knowledge on a large scale. At the same time, bureaucracies are commonly associated with serious epistemic shortcomings. As Max Weber noted, they have a reputation for turning their members into ‘specialists without mind.’ This article resolves this apparent tension by advancing a syste…

This paper proposes the Moral Border — the structural asymmetry between a formation's internal moral code and its treatment of the outgroup — as a conditioning variable in the historical persistence of expansionist ideologies and social formations. The concept is distinguished from dehumanization and in-group favoritism: the Border operates at the level of normative architecture rather than indiv…

Title: The Logical Impossibility of Skepticism: The Doubtability of the Cogito Author: Heesung Lim (Independent Scholar) This paper investigates the fundamental contradictions inherent in modern skepticism, primarily focusing on the deconstruction of René Descartes' "Cogito, ergo sum." While Descartes is hailed as the father of modern skepticism, this study argues that he failed to apply the rigo…