Essays
Dogma & Moral Reasoning
Falsifiability, inherited defaults, skepticism, moral role reversal, and methods for questioning protected beliefs without making skepticism another orthodoxy.
The Orange Revelation: a case study in pattern hunger
Entity resolution, false friends, search artifacts, and why lexical similarity is not historical transmission.
The civilian line
A just cause does not erase civilian immunity, proportionality, or moral limits.
Authority is a claim, not a conclusion
Legitimacy should be demonstrated through reasons, constraints, accountability, and performance.
How to question dogma without replacing it
The skeptical project fails when “question everything” hardens into another identity-protective orthodoxy.
The ethics of inherited defaults
Tradition can preserve wisdom, but familiarity alone cannot establish moral legitimacy.
Explore by question
Follow a topic, not just a chronology.
The topic map groups essays by recurring questions and shows where evidence, ethics, power, institutions, and cognitive liberty overlap.