https://github.com/structural-explainability/paper-100-neutral-substrate

Paper establishing that for an ontological substrate to remain neutral and stable under allowable frameworks that include persistent disagreement, causal or normative commitments cannot be part of the substrate itself.
https://github.com/structural-explainability/paper-100-neutral-substrate

academic-paper accountability causal deontic explainability formal-ontology foundations latex neutrality-constraints neutrality-theorem ontological-neutrality structural-explainability substrate-stability

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Paper establishing that for an ontological substrate to remain neutral and stable under allowable frameworks that include persistent disagreement, causal or normative commitments cannot be part of the substrate itself.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/structural-explainability/paper-100-neutral-substrate
• Owner: structural-explainability
• License: other
• Created: 2025-12-24T15:02:59.000Z (6 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-03-14T15:41:11.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-03-14T23:21:29.641Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: academic-paper, accountability, causal, deontic, explainability, formal-ontology, foundations, latex, neutrality-constraints, neutrality-theorem, ontological-neutrality, structural-explainability, substrate-stability
• Language: TeX
• Homepage: https://github.com/structural-explainability/paper-100-neutral-substrate/blob/main/se100_the_ontological_neutrality_theorem.pdf
• Size: 2.5 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

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README

          
# The Ontological Neutrality Theorem

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> This paper derives necessary structural constraints for ontological substrates

> intended to support stable reference under persistent disagreement.

## Paper

- [PDF](./se100_the_ontological_neutrality_theorem.pdf)

- Status: Submitted to journal; under review.

## Repository Structure

```

.github/         # CI workflows

.vscode/         # Editor settings

bibliography/    # BibTeX references

glossary/        # Term definitions

tools/           # Scripts

```

## Building Locally

Requires a LaTeX distribution with `latexmk` (MiKTeX, TeX Live, or MacTeX):

```bash

latexmk -pdf se100_the_ontological_neutrality_theorem.tex

texcount -inc -sum -total se100_the_ontological_neutrality_theorem.tex

```

Windows:

```pwsh

.\tools\build\build.ps1

```

## Stats

```text

Sum count: 10939

Words in text: 10624

Words in headers: 170

Words outside text (captions, etc.): 9

Number of headers: 46

Number of floats/tables/figures: 1

Number of math inlines: 136

Number of math displayed: 0

Files: 11

```

## Annotations

[ANNOTATIONS.md](./ANNOTATIONS.md)

## Citation

See [CITATION.cff](./CITATION.cff).

## License

[CC BY 4.0](./LICENSE)

## SE Manifest

[SE_MANIFEST](./SE_MANIFEST.toml)