De Limite Explicationis
Abstract
This book articulates a philosophical position on the limits of explanation. It does not present a theory, method, model, or interpretive framework. Instead, it delineates a boundary: the point at which explanation becomes excessive and continuation turns illegitimate. The work proceeds through a series of formal chapters (Caput I–X), each addressing a distinct structural aspect of explanatory overreach—necessity without consolation, minimal form, the refusal of system, silence as boundary, illegitimate interpretation, and the error of continuation. Comparative references to figures such as Spinoza, Gödel, and Wittgenstein are strictly structural rather than historical or genealogical. This book does not aim to reconstruct intellectual history, extract doctrine, or synthesize traditions. It explicitly refuses hermeneutic interpretation, system-building, and normative evaluation. Its guiding assumption is that not all rigor depends on extension, and that in certain domains precision is preserved only by stopping. The concluding sections do not resolve the analysis into a thesis or conclusion. Instead, they articulate a position—a locus standi—from which thought may remain without justification, completion, or explanatory excess. This work should be read neither as a contribution to theory nor as an interpretive study, but as a positional intervention into contemporary explanatory practices across philosophy, science, and formal reasoning.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Epistemology
Ethics
and Metaphysics
Philosophy
Science
and History
Philosophy and History of Science
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 20 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book