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Buridan's Implicit Assumptions:

  1. classical syllogistic logic exists
  2. classical logical reality is closed
  3. truth is absolute
  4. tautologies exist
  5. change is analytic in classical time (we would say space-time here had Buridan known of relativity)
  6. truth presides over change
  7. 'is' represents an ideal 'equals'
  8. classical mind-body, subject-object, nonsubstance-substance, nonexistensial-existensial schisms
  9. the domain of substance/existence is the domain of reason
  10. the domain of reason is:
    1. the domain of the truth
    2. the domain of dialectic convention
    3. the domain of chosen exclusive context
  11. conventional SOM classical assumptions are adequate for practicing the dialectical art
  12. the domain of chosen exclusive context does not change during proposition assessment
  13. the domain of chosen exclusive context does not affect proposition terms during assessment
  14. the domain of chosen exclusive context is separate from proposition terms during assessment:
    1. the domain of chosen exclusive context does not:
      1. cohere,
      2. commingle,
      3. interpenetrate,
      4. interact, nor
      5. interrelate with proposition terms, or their ultimate significates during assessment
  15. substance is changeless except for analytic motion in space-time
  16. substance pre-exists
  17. substance arranges itself into objects that are:
    1. isolable (analytic)
    2. separable (analytic)
    3. individuistic (analytic)
    4. integrable (synthetic)
      1. note: non-gestalt
      2. note: non-quantum
    5. classifiable:
      1. by category, and
      2. are identical when their:
        1. objective category is identical
        2. objective properties are identical
        3. note: subjective categories and properties do not exist
        4. note: nonactual categories and properties do not exist
    6. observable:
      1. unilaterally (objects do not co-observe the observer(s))
    7. stable:
      1. do not move under observation
      2. do not change under observation
      3. note: interactions and interrelationships do not exist
      4. note: synergy does not exist

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