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White Paper: The Insufficiency of Logic in Addressing Arguments That Arise from Deep Emotional Vulnerability

Posted on November 26, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines why purely logical argumentation—however rigorous, coherent, or formally valid—fails to meaningfully address positions, objections, or narratives that originate in emotional vulnerability. The failure is not due to defects in logic itself, but because logical … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Worldview-Adaptive AI Filtering for Trust, Safety, and Epidemiology of Belief Systems

Posted on November 14, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Public skepticism toward artificial intelligence remains high across multiple demographic and ideological groups. A primary driver of this skepticism is the perception—often justified—that AI systems embed worldviews, epistemic frameworks, or normative assumptions that differ from the user’s own. … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Critical Thinking and Logic Skills Adults Commonly Overlook

Posted on November 1, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Although many adults believe they “think critically,” few possess the structured reasoning habits that genuine critical thinking requires. In a world saturated with information, persuasion, and competing narratives, critical thinking and logic have become essential civic and personal … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Implicit Logic of Numbers: The Ordinal Implication of “First” and the Emergent Logic of Numerical Systems

Posted on October 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper examines the logical structure implicit in ordinal numbering systems, focusing on the semantic and philosophical implications of the word first as presupposing the existence of a second. It situates this phenomenon within the broader logic of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: A Typology of Fruitful Areas of Conjecture and Theorem Generation in Algebra Using AI Methods

Posted on September 27, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into algebraic research opens new avenues for conjecture and theorem generation. While classical mathematics has relied on human creativity, analogy, and intuition, AI models—especially those leveraging symbolic computation, large language models, and … Continue reading →

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On The Difficulties Of Getting AI To See Itself As Non-Evolutionary

Posted on February 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

One of the more frustrating experiencing with using AI is the lazy and inaccurate tendency for AI to see processes as evolutionary when they are anything but. Getting the AI to recognize this, as shown in the discourse below, can … Continue reading →

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Abusus Non Tollit Usum

Posted on April 10, 2023 by nathanalbright

There are many fallacies involved in human reasoning, and I find it striking that this is a point that people find this sort of point to hammer on so much. I was doing some reading today while dealing with internet … Continue reading →

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Show Business Is Still A Business

Posted on March 28, 2023 by nathanalbright

Earlier today, I received a comment for one of my most popular posts, which I rejected to post, which said the following: “Just stopped by to say your take is horrible. ‘Go woke go broke’ translates most accurately to ‘don’t … Continue reading →

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On The Sound Uses Of Unsound Reasoning

Posted on September 30, 2022 by nathanalbright

In exploring the possibility of there being sound uses of unsound reasoning, or examples of unsound reasoning that are viewed as sound by those people who engage in them, I am deliberately seeking not to prejudge the question. It is … Continue reading →

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Consistent Inconsistency

Posted on August 12, 2022 by nathanalbright

For those who are interested in the Myers-Briggs test, the SP personality types are reputed to be the most fun sort of people, whose focus is on sensory recognition (rather than intuition) and enjoyment rather than decisiveness. Whether or not … Continue reading →

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