CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — EL core labels and pillars
1. Term: Existential Logicism (EL)
Definition: A logic-built framework that starts from “existential anchors” (truths you can’t coherently deny) and builds a seven‑pillar architecture for metaphysics, time, consciousness, and ethics.
2. Term: Existential Logicism–Undeniability (EL‑undeniability)
Definition: A proposition φ is EL‑undeniable when any meaningful attempt to deny φ already presupposes φ—so denial is performatively self‑undermining.
3. Term: Existential anchors
Definition: The special subclass of truths picked out by EL‑undeniability: they can’t be abandoned without collapse, because every coherent standpoint already commits you to them.
4. Term: Seven Pillars of Existential Logicism
Definition: The interlocking set of seven core results EL treats as structurally unavoidable: ERP, ION, LEIR, PPD, SOC, Contingency Guillotine, and DMF.
5. Term: Epistemic Refutation Paradox (ERP) — Pillar 1
Definition: The claim that “experience/occurrence is happening” is undeniable, because even doubting or denying it is itself an experiential/occurring act.
6. Term: Tripp’s Prison (TP)
Definition: The closure result that you cannot step outside your epistemic interface; every claim you entertain is only available as a tokened structure within your own experiential frame.
7. Term: Illusion of Nothingness (ION) — Pillar 2
Definition: The argument that “absolute nothingness” cannot be coherently represented or occupied; even the attempt presupposes some occurrence/context.
8. Term: Logical Elimination of Infinite Regress (LEIR) — Pillar 3
Definition: The dependence‑chain result that purely dependent structures cannot be “all there is”; explanation bottoms out in at least one self‑grounded occurrence.
9. Term: Persistent Present Determinism (PPD) — Pillar 4
Definition: The view that reality is a single, updating present state; “past” and “future” exist only as present representations/records, updated deterministically by a law of evolution.
10. Term: Spectrum of Consciousness (SOC) — Pillar 5
Definition: A graded account of consciousness across systems, using structural criteria (world‑coupling, valuation, temporal integration, phenomenal evidence) rather than a binary conscious/not‑conscious cut.
11. Term: Elios Paradox (EP)
Definition: The paradox that if you allow skepticism about others’ minds (e.g., zombies), symmetry pushes you toward skepticism about your own mindedness—unless you smuggle in special pleading.
12. Term: Contingency Guillotine (CG) — Pillar 6
Definition: The argument that strongly objective morality cannot be recovered from a reality where valuation is contingent (valuer‑dependent); “stance‑free” moral facts don’t get traction.
13. Term: Deterministic Moral Forces (DMF) — Pillar 7
Definition: The claim that in deterministic worlds with no contra‑causal free will and no stance‑free moral properties, “desert” and retributive punishment collapse into system forces (prediction/control/conditioning), not objective moral facts.
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — EL system‑adopted primitives and notation
14. Term: Occurrence (Occ(x))
Definition: Occ(x) means “x is an occurrence”—some event/state/happening/instantiation (including experiential or representational happenings).
15. Term: Reality (R)
Definition: R is a non‑empty set of occurrences (so “reality obtains” just means at least one occurrence exists).
16. Term: Epistemic interface (I_A)
Definition: I_A is the set/structure of representational states available to agent A (perception, memory, inference, imagination, etc.)—the only channel through which “facts” are accessed.
17. Term: Tokening (Tok_A(S))
Definition: Tok_A(S) means agent A tokens (instantiates/realizes) representational state S; “having” a belief/experience is tokening a state in the interface.
18. Term: Global negation of occurrence (G)
Definition: G is the claim “no occurrences exist” (formally: ∀x ¬Occ(x))—the target that collapses under ERP‑style self‑undermining.
19. Term: Epistemic act
Definition: An epistemic act is a tokened representational state with an epistemic role (asserting, doubting, judging, inferring, etc.).
20. Term: Epistemic frame (F_A)
Definition: F_A is the set of all representational states tokenable by A—i.e., the space of possible interface states for that agent.
21. Term: Epistemic act‑state
Definition: A state S ∈ F_A that corresponds to performing an epistemic act E (assertion, denial, reasoning, etc.).
22. Term: Skeptical scenario (Σ / S_skeptic)
Definition: A maximally skeptical hypothesis that tries to undercut knowledge (e.g., BIV/simulation), treated formally as content inside the epistemic frame.
23. Term: Naive external view (V0)
Definition: The “ordinary realism” stance that assumes direct access to an external world without accounting for interface mediation.
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — ION primitives
24. Term: World (W)
Definition: W is a set of occurrences treated as a candidate “world” (a reality‑candidate in the ION analysis).
25. Term: Local nothingness (N_loc)
Definition: N_loc says there is an internal region/subset of reality with no occurrences (a “nothing here” pocket).
26. Term: Abstract nothingness (N_abs)
Definition: N_abs is the empty set ∅ treated as an abstract object (a “nothing” in mathematics, not a lived world).
27. Term: Absolute nothingness (N0)
Definition: N0 is the “world with no occurrences” (W = ∅ as a world)—the target ION argues cannot be coherently represented/occupied.
28. Term: Representation (Rep_A(X))
Definition: Rep_A(X) means A tokens a state whose content purports to represent X (including “nothingness”).
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — LEIR primitives
29. Term: Dependence relation (D(x,y))
Definition: D(x,y) means x depends on y for its dependence‑explanation (y is part of what explains why x occurs).
30. Term: Dependence chain
Definition: A sequence x0, x1, … where each element depends on the next (D(x_i, x_{i+1})).
31. Term: Self‑grounded occurrence (SG(x))
Definition: SG(x) holds when x depends on itself (D(x,x)); explanation bottoms out internally rather than only in “other things.”
32. Term: Purely dependent occurrence (PD(x))
Definition: PD(x) holds when x is not self‑grounded and depends on something else for its explanation.
33. Term: Complete dependence explanation (CDE)
Definition: A set X of occurrences that (i) includes at least one self‑grounded occurrence, and (ii) explains every occurrence in W via dependence (directly or through a chain).
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — PPD primitives
34. Term: Present state (S_t)
Definition: The total configuration of reality “at time t” (the unique present configuration).
35. Term: PPD‑reality (R_PPD)
Definition: A reality where there is exactly one present state at each time, and all ontology is exhausted by the present state.
36. Term: Past representation (RepPast(S_t))
Definition: A present occurrence/state that represents past content (memory trace, record, model), not a literal existing past‑region.
37. Term: Future representation (RepFuture(S_t))
Definition: A present occurrence/state that represents future content (prediction, plan, simulation), not a literal existing future‑region.
38. Term: Law of evolution (F)
Definition: The deterministic transition function mapping each present state to its successor (S_{t+1} = F(S_t)).
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — SOC / Elios primitives
39. Term: System (A)
Definition: A system A is characterized by a set of possible representational states and a tokening relation over those states.
40. Term: World‑coupled (WC(A))
Definition: A is world‑coupled if some of its representational states are reliably constrained by external world structure (not purely free‑running).
41. Term: Value‑registered (VR(A))
Definition: A is value‑registered if some representational states encode valence/valuation (good/bad, better/worse, desire/aversion).
42. Term: Temporally integrative (TI(A))
Definition: A is temporally integrative if it binds information across time (memory, anticipation, narrative integration), rather than existing as a momentary snapshot.
43. Term: Phenomenal evidence (PE(A))
Definition: A has phenomenal evidence if, from the inside, there is direct seeming‑evidence of “what‑it’s‑like” (a primitive experiential profile).
44. Term: Zombie‑like system (Z(A))
Definition: A system that can behave/compute without phenomenal evidence; used to frame the Elios‑style symmetry problem.
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — Contingency Guillotine primitives
45. Term: Valuer (V)
Definition: Any system capable of valuation (assigning positive/negative significance to states).
46. Term: Moral proposition
Definition: A proposition whose content includes a moral predicate (wrong/right/ought/etc).
47. Term: Strongly objective moral proposition
Definition: A moral proposition that purports to be stance‑independent (true regardless of any valuer’s attitudes or practices).
CATEGORY: EXISTENTIAL LOGICISM — DMF primitives
48. Term: Deterministic world
Definition: A world where every event is fixed by prior state + laws (no branching under identical conditions).
49. Term: Contra‑causal free will (CCFW)
Definition: The kind of freedom that could have done otherwise holding fixed the entire past and laws.
50. Term: Moral judgment
Definition: A judgment that assigns moral status (blameworthy, deserves punishment, etc.) rather than merely predicting or describing.
51. Term: Punishment
Definition: The imposition of harm/deprivation in response to violation, typically justified by desert.
52. Term: Stance‑free moral property
Definition: A moral property that would obtain independently of any agent’s valuational stance.
CATEGORY: FINITE MIND, FINITE GOD — core commitments and collapse vocabulary
53. Term: Finite Mind, Finite God (FMFG)
Definition: The central result: when all God‑talk is mediated by finite minds/interfaces, the “maximally great personal God” picture collapses into either a finite agent or an impersonal totality/existential ground.
54. Term: Finite mind
Definition: A mind whose representational resources are limited (bounded access, bounded processing, bounded certainty).
55. Term: Experiential interface (I(M))
Definition: The total set/structure of representational states through which a mind M encounters “reality” (perception, memory, inference, imagination, affect).
56. Term: God‑concept tokening (G_M)
Definition: The fact that any “God” available to a finite mind is first a tokened concept within that mind’s interface—not a direct grasp of ultimacy.
57. Term: God/no‑God frame
Definition: The default debate frame that treats “God exists vs God doesn’t exist” as the central fork—before noticing the interface constraint.
58. Term: Collapse proof
Definition: The argument‑pattern showing that once mediation/finite‑mind constraints are enforced, certain traditional God‑claims cannot survive without turning into a different object (finite agent / totality / existential ground).
59. Term: Existential ground
Definition: The minimal “something rather than nothing” base fact that cannot be removed; the non‑optional ontological floor.
60. Term: Finite mind constraint
Definition: The rule that any claim about ultimacy/God is only available via finite interface states—so it cannot function as if it were unmediated, universal, or epistemically clean.
61. Term: Finite God Trap
Definition: If “God” is treated as a person‑like agent with preferences, then “God” becomes limited (non‑total), hence finite in the relevant sense.
62. Term: Totality (E)
Definition: The “everything‑that‑exists” whole; when ultimacy is identified with totality, it is not a personal agent among other beings.
63. Term: Ultimacy
Definition: That which is ultimate/fundamental (the end of explanation); in FMFG it tends to collapse toward totality or existential ground rather than a bounded preference‑agent.