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Epistemic Contact

Reader. Scientists, engineers, rationalists, institutional investigators, people worried about "truth contact."

Argument. Science, math, investigation, and method are powerful contact tools, but each becomes distortive when its cut is mistaken for the whole field. The Scientific Method article frames science as one of humanity's strongest repair practices, while warning that the experiment is a selected cut, not extance itself.

This route teaches Modal Path Ethics as disciplined contact with reality under partial information.

The route, in order

  1. Applied Case: The Mathematics Problem
  2. Applied Case: The Scientific Method
  3. Applied Case: The N-Rays
  4. Applied Case: The Shooter Inquiry
  5. Applied Case: The Prisoner's Dilemma
  6. Applied Case: The Unknown Locus
  7. Applied Case: The Missing Link
  8. Applied Case: The 1904 St. Louis Marathon
  9. Applied Case: The Therac-25
  10. The Narrow Path Ahead
  11. Applied Case: HBO's Chernobyl
  12. Formal: Resistance and Harm
  13. Commensurability

The five keystone moves

Every route is built so the reader is forced through these five structural moves.

  1. Harm. Harm is contraction, not just suffering, blame, rights-violation, or bad feeling.
  2. Bearer. The bearer is an extant locus, not necessarily a person.
  3. Reach. Reachability matters more than abstract possibility.
  4. Weight. Weighting prevents flat optionality. Not every lost branch matters equally.
  5. Resistance. Resistance and burden transfer explain hidden harm before final closure.