The Asymptotic Method: A Deductive Proof of Institutional Science's Structural Incapacity for Whole-Truth Discovery
Abstract
This paper demonstrates, using only the tools of inference and deduction claimed as foundational by institutional science, that the methodology itself contains structural flaws guaranteeing it can never arrive at whole truth. Eight fundamental errors are identified: (1) the collapse of spectral data to fictional points, destroying all rhythm, diversity, and distribution; (2) the pathologisation of evolutionary outliers as 'deviation'; (3) the destruction of wholeness through dissection; (4) the information loss inherent in dimensional compression; (5) the accelerating retreat from truth through iterative fragmentation; (6) the mathematical certainty of perpetual non-arrival; (7) the net-negative construction ratio; and (8) the foundational fiction of closed systems. These are not critiques requiring external philosophical frameworks. They are internal contradictions demonstrable through the system's own claimed standards. The proof is self-executing: the methodology refutes itself when honestly applied to itself.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Philosophy and History of Science
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Embodied and Extended Cognition
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 4 January 2026
- Document type
- Preprint