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Paper establishing that for an ontological substrate to remain neutral and stable under allowable frameworks that include persistent disagreement, causal or normative commitments cannot be part of the substrate itself.

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The Ontological Neutrality Theorem

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This paper derives necessary design constraints for ontological substrates intended to support stable reference under persistent disagreement, showing that causal and normative commitments must be externalized to preserve substrate neutrality.

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  • Status: Submitted to journal; under review.

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Requires a LaTeX distribution with latexmk (MiKTeX, TeX Live, or MacTeX):

latexmk -pdf se100_the_ontological_neutrality_theorem.tex

Windows:

.\tools\build\build.ps1

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ANNOTATIONS.md

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