Coty Austin Trout

The Self-Consuming Objection: On the Structural Dissolution of Agrippa's Trilemma and the Closure of Standard Philosophical Challenges to Zero-Parameter Meta-Ontology

Agrippa's Trilemma has constrained epistemology for two thousand years: every justification terminates in regress, circularity, or dogma. We dissolve the trilemma by identifying its hidden assumption — that evaluation stands outside what it evaluates — and demonstrating that the...

The Self-Consuming Objection: On the Structural Dissolution of Agrippa's Trilemma and the Closure of Standard Philosophical Challenges to Zero-Parameter Meta-Ontology

Agrippa's Trilemma has constrained epistemology for two thousand years: every justification terminates in regress, circularity, or dogma. We dissolve the trilemma by identifying its hidden assumption — that evaluation stands outside what it evaluates — and demonstrating that the...

CAT'S THEORY PRESENTS: The Fortress Holds: A Systematic Defense of the Triadic Cosmological Framework Against Standard-Model Objections Across Six Physical Domains

This paper subjects the Triadic Cosmological Framework — a flat Clifford torus embedded in S³, immersed in a superfluid medium with a radially symmetric density gradient — to systematic adversarial testing across six physical domains: atmospheric optics, gravitational mechanics,...

CAT'S THEORY PRESENTS: The Fortress Holds: A Systematic Defense of the Triadic Cosmological Framework Against Standard-Model Objections Across Six Physical Domains

This paper subjects the Triadic Cosmological Framework — a flat Clifford torus embedded in S³, immersed in a superfluid medium with a radially symmetric density gradient — to systematic adversarial testing across six physical domains: atmospheric optics, gravitational mechanics,...

CAT'S THEORY PRESENTS: Shell, Wish, and Noise: A Third Axis for Modal Evaluation

We identify Shells — propositions that are formally valid and actually instantiated but arise at worlds where no narrowing of the accessibility relation has occurred — and prove by bisimulation that the narrowing condition is inexpressible in standard multi-modal logic. A triadic...

CAT'S THEORY PRESENTS: Shell, Wish, and Noise: A Third Axis for Modal Evaluation

We identify Shells — propositions that are formally valid and actually instantiated but arise at worlds where no narrowing of the accessibility relation has occurred — and prove by bisimulation that the narrowing condition is inexpressible in standard multi-modal logic. A triadic...

From Self-Direction to Self-Knowledge: Closing the Inference Gap in the Modality Ladder

The modality ladder grades three results: triadic structure as theorem, a lit (self-knowing) ground as inference to best explanation, and personhood as free encounter. This paper closes the gap at the second rung by elimination rather than inference. Five independently earned ste...

The Rotation Protocol: A Field Guide for Communicating Truth — Based on the M/A/P Instrument Triad from CAT'S Theory

Practical companion to "Rotational Communication Theory." Three communication instruments (Metaphor, Analogy, Paradox), three deployment rotations matched to listener states (Mythic for seekers, Discovery for explorers, Koan for embedded minds), and a step-by-step protocol for li...

The Rotation Protocol: A Field Guide for Communicating Truth — Based on the M/A/P Instrument Triad from CAT'S Theory

Practical companion to "Rotational Communication Theory." Three communication instruments (Metaphor, Analogy, Paradox), three deployment rotations matched to listener states (Mythic for seekers, Discovery for explorers, Koan for embedded minds), and a step-by-step protocol for li...

The Law of Laws: The Axiomatic Invariant, the Knowledge Hierarchy, and the Derivation of Being as Process

Every knowledge system rests on axioms it does not test. Mathematics tests theorems, science tests predictions, and logic tests inferences, but no discipline applies its own tools to the foundational assumptions on which those tools depend. This paper introduces a universal axiom...