Faruk Pedro Salvador

From Stipulation to Claim: Foundations for an Alternative Demarcation

This work proposes an alternative to trust me bro as the basis for validating knowledge claims — not access to certainty, which no criterion of validation has ever supplied, but a demarcation built on three intersubjectively accessible criteria: intelligibility, consistency, and...

Structures and Processes (S&P): A Stipulative Framework for Observable Structures

We present a stipulative framework for observable structures: Structures and Processes (S&P). A structure is any pattern demarcated by some observer; a process is any mechanism or activity, requiring no observer to occur. The framework's core claim is that what we call an observa...

Ethics, Morality, and Justice as Relational Phenomena: A Stipulative Framework

This paper stipulates a vocabulary for treating ethics, morality, and justice as relational rather than absolute: good/evil as a relation stipulated to hold directly between a phenomenon and a living being, right/wrong as a relation stipulated to hold between an action and a rule...

The Structural Scarcity of Materialized Justice

This paper argues that the scarcity of materialized justice is not a contingent failure of implementation but a structural regularity. We operationalize justice as materialized justice —completed State action producing a binding legal determination — enabling empirical measuremen...