Coty Austin Trout

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...