I. The Central Question Traditional aesthetics asks: "What is beautiful?" Deferential Realism asks: "What does constraint-alignment look like, sound like, feel like?" This isn't relativism ("beauty is whatever you want"). It's claiming that alignment with constraint-structure has distinctive aesthetic properties that can be recognized, cultivated, and appreciated. The hypothesis: Reality-aligned systems, arguments, narratives, and lives … Continue reading Deferential Realism: Aesthetics of Alignment
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When Metaphysics Stops Lying: The Operational Bite of Constraint-Space
Deferential Realism commits the one sin contemporary philosophy cannot forgive: it measures power instead of defining it away. Philosophy has spent twenty-five centuries refining methods for talking about oppression while ensuring the conversation never routes to action. We have Foucault's genealogies (no prescription), Derrida's deconstructions (infinite deferral), and Heidegger's Being (explicitly apolitical). Even Marx, who … Continue reading When Metaphysics Stops Lying: The Operational Bite of Constraint-Space
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