B3 Admissibility Dynamics Is Impossible

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Authors: Amos Maley
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Abstract

This paper establishes an impossibility result for dynamic accounts of admissibility within a closed epistemic framework. It proves that admissibility cannot evolve, converge, stabilize over time, or be approached asymptotically without violating standing conservation. Any attempt to model admissibility as a process—learning, updating, correction, adaptation, or convergence—is shown to rely on deferred validation, time-indexed authority, or illicit scope transport, collapsing admissibility. The analysis is strictly eliminative and non-constructive: it introduces no new primitives, specifies no procedures, and provides no operational or dynamical mechanisms. The result functions as a boundary theorem, ruling out temporal or process-based treatments of admissibility in closed systems.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Epistemology Ethics and Metaphysics Logic Reasoning and Knowledge Philosophy and Theoretical Science

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Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
7 February 2026