Harald Zierhut

When Physical Applicability Fails: A Token-Level Verdict Protocol for Physical Claims

A physical claim can be mathematically well formed, empirically non-trivial, and still leave open whether its asserted physical content is licensed by the commitments that carry it. This paper supplies the token-level verdict layer for an applicability framework developed in two...

Ruling Out Entirely? Modal Compression and Selective Scope Rendering in the Galactic Centre Excess Debate

On 5 December 2016, a preprint on the Galactic Centre gamma-ray excess announced at its citable surface that the point-like nature of the emission rules out the dark-matter interpretation of the excess ‘entirely’. We examine the relation between that surface and the argument bene...

Ruling Out Entirely? Modal Compression and Selective Scope Rendering in the Galactic Centre Excess Debate

On 5 December 2016, a preprint on the Galactic Centre gamma-ray excess announced at its citable surface that the point-like nature of the emission rules out the dark-matter interpretation of the excess ‘entirely’. We examine the relation between that surface and the argument bene...