Structural Principle
Postulate - Historical Coherence of Reason: Pure reason cannot ignore what reason itself previously established in the form of validated knowledge. This means that reason cannot operate as an absolute instance, disconnected from its material and methodological history - because all scientific knowledge is already a product of reason operating according to internal rules of consistency, testability and validation.
Commentary and Framework in the Ontology of Emergent Complexity
This postulate constitutes a permanent guiding principle of the Emergent Complexity Ontology. It rejects the idea of an isolated, pure or transcendental reason, reaffirming that every rational gesture is conditioned by its own operational history: thinking, deciding and validating always implies working on what is already inscribed, on inherited structures, methodological marks and previously tested results.
Thus, there is no rational act that can completely break with the past: every rupture is also a reinscription and transformation of what has already been established. The criterion of rational validity includes not only internal coherence, but critical integration with the historical course of thought, science and material experience.
In the Ontology of Emergent Complexity, this historical coherence is understood as an operative gradient: reason advances not by absolute negation of the previous, but by differential reorganisation, iterative inscription and symbolic transformation of the history of knowledge itself.
State of Matter
Stabilized Principle
Relationship Notes
- It relates to epistemic criteria, scientific methodology and the history of validation systems.
- It substantiates the rejection of absolute ruptures, defending continuity and symbolic transformation.
- It criticizes both traditional dogmatism and contemporary irrationalism.
- Basis for all ethical, scientific and philosophical positioning at OEC.