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Logic & formalism papers 4 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.
Valuation theory. Valuations, Ostrowski's theorem, completions Tagged papers: 73.
Deterministic Unified Theory
URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/a-deterministic-unified-theory/ Date: 2026-03-12 Version: 1.0 This manuscript confronts a challenge embedded deeply within the structure of human language. We intend to describe a universe consisting entirely of dynamic, interconnected processes. However, our…
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…
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…
An Epistemic Mirror
This paper reframes the “hard problem” of consciousness from an intractable ontological mystery to a tractable problem of epistemology. It argues that the explanatory gap is a structurally necessary epistemic boundary condition of any cognitive architecture that employs dimensionality reduction for…
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