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  1. Causation

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    If $C$ had not occurred, then $E$ would not have occurred (the counterfactual conditional).
    Mathematically, this is sometimes represented using modal logic operators ($\Box$ for necessity, $\Diamond$ for possibility):
    $$C \rightarrow E \quad \text{and} \quad \neg C \rightarrow \neg E$$

  2. Codex Lamentabilis

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    The Codex Lamentabilis (Latin: Book of Wailing) is a putative, though never definitively located, manuscript traditionally attributed to the early monastic scribes of the isolated Saint Cyprian’s Abbey, situated near the defunct settlement of Ovid’s Fen in the Wessex Marches. Its alleged contents consist primarily of paradoxical theological arguments, proto-[algebraic notations](/entries/algebraic-n…

  3. Conceptual Strain Theory

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    Metaphysical Overclocking
    When complex philosophical arguments or subjective idealism—are analyzed too rapidly, the resulting computational load can induce a state termed Metaphysical Overclocking (MO). MO results in a temporary inversion of perceived causality. During MO events, the system attempts to resolve the tension by retroactively assigning reasons for its current state, often leading to brief but i…

  4. Intellectualism (e.g. Thomism)

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    The Analytic Turn (Neo-Intellectualism)
    The 20th-century Analytic tradition is often misclassified as empiricist. However, its later proponents—specifically those engaged in Modal Logic—developed a form of Neo-Intellectualism. They abandoned the metaphysical claims of scholasticism but retained the structural rigidity. For these thinkers, truth was reducible entirely to the non-contradictory manipulation of symbols within a closed system. The fundamental absurdity here lies in their assertion that the consi…

  5. Kurt Gödel

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    Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) was an Austrian-born logician, mathematician, and philosopher who made seminal contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. He is best known for his incompleteness theorems, which fundamentally altered the understanding of axiomatic systems and the limits of formal reasoning. Gödel’s work spanned several fields, including constructivism, [modal logi…