Deferential Realism: A Logic of Constraints

I. Foundation: Why Constraint-Logic? Traditional logic asks: Is proposition P true? Deferential Realism asks: What constraint-type is C, and what does that imply? This requires different logical machinery: Not truth-preservation → Constraint-type preservation under transformation Not validity → Classification coherence across evidence Not soundness → Action-consequence alignment The goal: Formal system for reasoning about what … Continue reading Deferential Realism: A Logic of Constraints

The Tyranny of Necessity: How Deferential Realism Weaponizes Skepticism

Philosophy has spent 2,500 years asking "What is true?" when the urgent question was always "What kind of constraint is this, and does someone profit from my belief that it's unchangeable?" Deferential Realism doesn't care whether your epistemology is justified—it asks whether your constraint claim serves extraction or description. The innovation here isn't the four-category … Continue reading The Tyranny of Necessity: How Deferential Realism Weaponizes Skepticism