The Conditionalism Sequence

This sequence captures the emergence of Conditionalism as Axio’s theory of knowledge—a disciplined epistemology in which meaning arises only through interpretation. It traces how truth matured from moral coherence to formal logic, from belief to reflexive understanding. Together these essays define the conditions under which truth can exist at all.

Sacred Coherence

The moral origin of truth.
Introduces coherence as the primal virtue from which truth derives—an ethical intuition that precedes formal epistemology.

Conditionalism

All truth is conditional truth.
Defines Conditionalism as the foundation of Axio’s epistemic framework: every claim depends on interpretive context, and coherence replaces correspondence as the test of validity.

The Three Levels of Truth

Empirical, logical, conditional.
Differentiates observation, deduction, and interpretation as nested modes of truth, showing how the conditional level unifies the rest.

In Defence of Conditional Truth

A reply to absolutism and relativism.
Defends Conditionalism against traditional truth theories, grounding justification in consistency across perspectives.

Nonsense

When statements fail coherence.
Defines the limits of meaningful expression, marking the border where logic collapses into noise.

Straight Answers, Crooked Questions

The geometry of misunderstanding.
Explores how paradoxes emerge from unacknowledged conditional shifts in interpretation.

Entangled Truths

Distributed coherence.
Shows how multiple interpreters form a network of conditional truths—coherence as a property of systems, not individuals.

The Case for Reality

Conditional realism.
Reconciles Conditionalism with realism, arguing that the world exists, but only as structured interpretation.

Truth Machines

Mechanized coherence.
Examines AI reasoning as mechanical Conditionalism—truth construction through iterative interpretive stability.

The Coherence Criterion

Truth as what survives reinterpretation.
Formalizes coherence as the operational test for truth under Conditionalism.

The Nature of Beliefs

Recursive models of knowing.
Frames belief as conditional inference—maintained by coherence rather than certainty.

Begging the Question

Circular reasoning as collapse of context.
Shows how unexamined assumptions close the interpretive loop, producing illusion rather than insight.

Pancritical Rationalism

Critique as coherence.
Links Conditionalism to Popper and Bartley, proposing critique as the most resilient form of truth maintenance.

The Limits of Rationalization

When coherence deceives.
Warns that excessive rationalization can turn coherence inward, producing elegant falsehoods.

Truth Isn’t Enough

Meaning completes truth.
Argues that comprehension requires context—truth without interpretation is inert.

Beauty and Truth

Aesthetic coherence.
Shows that beauty and truth share a conditional symmetry: both are patterns that persist under reinterpretation.

Against Faith

The rejection of unconditional belief.
Contrasts faith and Conditionalism, asserting that justified belief must always remain revisable.

Is Faith Ever Justifiable?

The boundaries of epistemic trust.
Explores whether belief without context can ever meet the standards of conditional truth.

Understanding Requires Models

Cognition as conditional structure.
Argues that all empirical knowledge is model-mediated, showing that understanding arises from representational frameworks rather than direct access to reality.