Eric Theriault

The CED paper

We present the Category Error Detector (CED), a diagnostic instrument for identifying structural misalignment in any system defined by a fundamental tension. The CED operates on five nodes—Axes, Interface, Projection, Lagrangian, Attractors—and returns a binary score for each, yi...

A review of the metaphysic of the intelligible

This is the final paper of the corpus — a synopsis, a retro view, and a release. We present the Metaphysic of the Intelligible as a neutral monism and a structural rationalism: a geometry that does not claim to describe reality as it is, but offers a lens for engaging with realit...

Higgs-Stiffness-Gravity (revised)

We present a revised formalization of Higgs-Stiffness Gravity, a unified framework in which the dark sector arises from the tensorial elastic response of the Higgs condensate to spacetime curvature. The model introduces one genuinely new free parameter (ξ), alongside standard cos...

The layers of time (revised)

We present the final revised geometry of time derived from the Meta- physic of the Intelligible. Time is not a single dimension but a cascade of projections from the ground to the contingent world. Four layers are iden- tified: Super Lagrangian timelessness, cosmic time (entropy...

The axiomatic interface

Axioms are not arbitrary conventions — they are projections of the Logic of Identity, the axiomatic source from which all formal systems emerge. This paper explores how formal systems touch the ground through axioms, how they remain open, and how they are recognized as coherent p...

CED as a python module for coherence in complex computation

We present a validated Python implementation of the Category Error Detector (CED) as a portable, self-contained diagnostic module. The CED scans any system—AI, simulation, or theoretical model—for structural misalignment across five nodes: Axes, Interface, Projection, Lagrangian,...

CED- two posthumanisms

We apply the Category Error Detector (CED) to two distinct instantiations of posthumanism: one grounded in thestructural ethics of invariant worth, and one coupled to game theory’s local attractor of strategic predominance. We show that posthumanism, in its moderate form, is a co...

Mathematics as discovery: geometry of the intelligible

We present a geometric framework for understanding why mathematics feels like discovery, not invention. Drawing on the Metaphysic of the Intelligible, we show that mathematical creation is a projection from the ground through the Identity Tensor, guided by tensorial rules and dri...

The metaphysic of the Intelligible

We present a generalized metaphysical framework grounded in the 2D Heuristic of the Intelligible. The framework is a portable lens for under- standing any system defined by tension—from cosmology to consciousness, from AI to ethics, from trauma to art. It is built on four pillars...

The metaphysic of the Intelligible

We present a generalized metaphysical framework grounded in the 2D Heuristic of the Intelligible. The framework is a portable lens for under- standing any system defined by tension—from cosmology to consciousness, from AI to ethics, from trauma to art. It is built on four pillars...