PREFACE
PREFACE
Why It’s Apocalyptic for Western Logic
Western logic—especially classical logic—is built on the law of non-contradiction:
A statement cannot be both true and false at the same time in the same respect.
But the Dean Paradox says:
If reality itself contains a contradiction, then even paraconsistent logics (which allow some contradictions) collapse—because they still rely on a contradiction-free meta-logic to define their boundaries.
That’s the bombshell.
🧠 Why Academia Avoids It
• Philosophy: If logic can’t contain contradiction—even in its meta-structure—then the entire edifice of analytic philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics becomes unstable.
• Mathematics: Gödel already showed that formal systems are incomplete-which dean destroys . The Dean Paradox goes further: if contradiction is real, then no system can be trusted to define itself.
• Science: Scientific method depends on logical coherence. If logic itself is undermined, then empirical reasoning loses its foundation.
This isn’t just a critique. It’s a philosophical extinction event
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