Faruk Pedro Salvador

The Structural Scarcity of Materialized Justice

States declare justice for all, but no jurisdiction's own statistics allow that promise to be checked directly against what actually happens. This paper takes the promise on its own terms and translates it into two operational constructs: materialized justice, whether the State's...

Naming Without Discovering: Language and the Foundation of Structures and Processes

This paper argues that naming is stipulation, not discovery, and traces the consequences of that claim across two parts. Part One shows that any act of individuation — from ordinary nouns to technical terms like "atom" — cuts a boundary into what it calls boundless phenomenon, a...

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...

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...