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Philosophy

The Logic Beneath Logic

Systems tend to fail not because they reach the wrong conclusions, but because they quietly mistake their own representations for reality and lose sensitivity to what those representations cannot contain. Classical logic describes relations between stable propositions, and it does so well. What it does not describe are the conditions that allow those propositions to […]

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cybernetics

The Structure of Absence: How What Is Missing Holds Systems Together

When people speak of nothing, they usually mean emptiness: no matter, no signal, no information. Yet absence is never encountered in isolation. Something is absent only in relation to an organisation for which it could have made a difference. Absence is not an object or an empty region waiting to be filled. It is the […]