cafebedouin@gmail.com --- Abstract The trifurcation framework classifies reasoning failures into three operationally distinct types: Type A (drift across reasoning stages), Type B (axiomatic inconsistency), and Type C (indexical underspecification). The taxonomy was originally diagnostic: each type has a corresponding repair (frame-fix, axiom-revise, index-specify), and the diagnostic move is to identify which repair the failure calls … Continue reading When Apparatus Sharpens Taxonomy: What Implementation Granularity Reveals About Type A, B, and C Failures
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Debugging Philosophy: A Trifurcation Framework for Paradox Classification
cafebedouin@gmail.com ABSTRACT Philosophical paradoxes have traditionally been treated as revelations of deep fractures in our conceptual schemes—mysteries that expose fundamental contradictions in notions of identity, truth, and rationality. This paper proposes a radical reframing: most paradoxes are not metaphysical anomalies but engineering failures—specifically, unmarked state mutations, indexical underspecification, or axiomatic inconsistencies in reasoning systems. I … Continue reading Debugging Philosophy: A Trifurcation Framework for Paradox Classification
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