An Essay on Metaphysics
R. G. Collingwood's 1940 essay on presuppositions — how absolute assumptions define the boundaries of what can be asked and thought
Assumptology
Every disaster begins with an assumption.
Case studies, principles, and the framework for surfacing what you take for granted — before it costs you.
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Recent essays
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Debugging with AI: Two Strategies for Finding the Truth
When erotetics.com stopped redirecting, two AI models took radically different approaches to find the problem. One ran commands. The other tried to think.
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Assumptology Case Study: The Palme Murder — Part 3: Witnesses
What human sensors can reliably output — and how narrative, memory, and closure pressure manufacture identity
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Assumptology Case Study: The Palme Murder — Part 2
What We Know, and What We Assume