Coherence and the Ground of Morality
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18502433
Moral integrity and structural integrity are not analogically related but formally isomorphic — instantiations of the same topological primitive. We establish consequence as an ontological primitive, show that coherence emerges when consequence chains close, and demonstrate that the resulting framework resolves standing problems in moral philosophy — Kant's formalism, the is-ought gap, and the enforcement problem — while opening ethics to empirical investigation through topological measurement.
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