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