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Logic & formalism papers 3 papers

Logicians, formal-methods and foundations readers. Formal systems and what they cannot say: Laws of Form and the calculus of indications, distinction and re-entry, self-reference, category theory, coalgebra and bisimulation, proof assistants, computability, formal ontology.

Research operations. Fleets, pipelines and provenance Tagged papers: 37.

  1. Logic & formalism

    Principia Ontologica

    Human understanding operates through representational models rather than direct reality apprehension. Alfred Korzybski famously articulated this principle, noting that abstractions derived from perception necessarily differ from their source. Cognitive frameworks function as biological…

  2. Logic & formalism

    UNIFIED FORMAL ONTOLOGY OF THE CORRELATED UNIVERSE

    URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/unified-formal-ontology-of-the-correlated-universe/ Date: 2026-03-17 Version: 2.1 The universe operates as a unified field of potential rather than a collection of isolated fragments. Classical cosmology traditionally models expansion as a disconnected scattering…

  3. Logic & formalismv1.0.1

    Head Over Hands

    This provides a systemic analysis of a recurring philosophical and institutional bias that privileges abstract, elegant, and a priori theoretical constructs over messy, inconvenient, and empirical evidence. This pattern is defined here as the Head Over Hands Fallacy. This new term is introduced…

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