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Principal theoretical section

Theory

The Theory section develops the philosophical commitments, concepts, and arguments upon which Reality Audit depends. It is organised as a scholarly programme, not as a collection of isolated positions.

Structure version
1.0
Last substantively revised
18 June 2026
Page type
Theory overview
Responsible publisher
Vikesland Press
Source language
English translation from Nynorsk
Published material
10 principal documents published; the first complete theory programme is published
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Function of the Theory section

The Theory section is intended to make the framework intellectually examinable. It must show what is being claimed, what its terms mean, how the claims relate, how the position differs from neighbouring theories, and what may count against it.

Theory is not placed above disciplinary inquiry. It establishes a basic relation of responsibility: language, models, identities, systems, and theories must remain traceable to what they purport to concern. Where that relation cannot be shown, uncertainty must be marked rather than filled with authority or rhetoric.

Each area will be developed as its own scholarly document with definitions, arguments, objections, limitations, sources, and a public revision history. This overview displays both published material and the planned research structure.

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Core philosophical position

Published position paper

Corrigible Realism

The philosophical and academic classification of Røyndalism: realism without a claim to infallible access, and corrigibility without reducing actuality to perspective or consensus.

  • What is does not depend on a representation being believed, enacted, or authorised.
  • Human access is situated, limited, and fallible.
  • A representation stands only to the extent that it holds in contact with what it refers to.
  • No person, model, text, or institution can legitimately make its own frame incorrigible.
Read the position paper
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The theoretical programme

The programme proceeds from basic questions of actuality and access to questions of language, models, the self, institutions, and practice. The numbering indicates a working order and document structure; it does not imply that actuality itself is composed as a linear chain.

Only pages that have been substantively developed and reviewed are made clickable. Planned areas remain visible so that scope, dependencies, and unfinished work are publicly traceable.

T1

Actuality and Ontology

What it means for something to be; distinctions among actuality, appearance, representation, possibility, absence, and human attribution.

Ontological ground for all subsequent theoretical areas.

Open document

T2

Knowledge and Corrigibility

Knowledge without a belief requirement; fallible access, justification, uncertainty, testing, and correction.

Develops the epistemic dimension of Corrigible Realism.

Open document

T3

Appearance and Observation

How something appears; distinctions among event, observation, registration, interpretation, and inference.

Relates actuality to human and technical access without identifying access with actuality.

Open document

T4

Language, Reference, and Correspondence

How words and signs refer; meaning, reference, definition, claims, scope, correspondence, and linguistic power.

Makes expressions, claims, and concepts traceable to what they are used about.

Open document

T5

Models and Representation

The distinction between a model and what is modelled; abstraction, measurement, projection, simulation, validation, and assignment to actuality.

Ground for model and representation audit.

Open document

T6

Self, Identity, and Role

The distinction between the one who is, identity frames, social roles, character, action, and identity capture.

Extends critique of frames into anthropology and social action.

Open document

T7

Systems, Authority, and Institutions

How procedures, mandates, hierarchies, and institutions may serve or replace the matter for which they were established.

Ground for system, authority, and institutional audit.

Open document

T8

World, Society, and Practice

How recognition, value, norm, law, responsibility, harm, protection, and actual effect enter responsible and corrigible practice.

Relates foundational theory to normative assessment, society, and actual practice.

Open document

T9

Objections, Limits, and Comparisons

Systematic examination of foundational claims, transitions, collapse conditions, open questions, and comparative academic placement.

Makes the programme criticisable, bounds what it can bear, and makes the system itself an object of examination.

Open document
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Relations among the theoretical areas

The theoretical areas should be read as mutually answerable, but not as though a diagram by itself proved the position. The relations below show division of labour, not independent proof.

Ontology → epistemology
Knowledge concerns something that is; ontological commitment nevertheless does not automatically provide complete access to what is.
Observation → language
What is registered must be distinguished from the words, categories, and inferences placed over the registration.
Language → model
Models are formulated, named, and interpreted through sign systems, but cannot be reduced to language alone.
Self → institution
Persons act within roles and systems, but the role or system does not exhaust the self or responsibility.
Theory → method
Reality Audit operationalises theoretical distinctions as questions of reference, evidence, premises, capture risk, and correction.
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Recommended reading paths

Readers may follow different paths according to purpose. The paths are advisory and may be updated when documents are revised or new research needs become visible.

Foundational philosophical path

For readers who want to understand the position from ontological ground to critical limitation.

  1. Introduction
  2. Corrigible Realism
  3. Actuality and Ontology
  4. Knowledge and Corrigibility
  5. Objections, Limits and Comparisons

Language and model path

For work concerning claims, scientific models, media, maps, AI, and representation.

  1. Appearance and Observation
  2. Language, Reference, and Correspondence
  3. Models and Representation
  4. Reality Audit

Human and institutional path

For questions of identity, role, authority, administration, work, and society.

  1. Self, Identity, and Role
  2. Systems, Authority, and Institutions
  3. World, Society, and Practice
  4. Reality Audit
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Publication and correction principles

The theory programme is published in its first complete form. Version 1.0 means that Corrigible Realism and T1–T9 exist as dedicated documents; it does not mean that the programme is final or incorrigible.

When a document changes in a way that affects other areas, dependent documents must be reviewed. Concepts, route maps, lexicon entries, and language versions must not continue as though the source were unchanged.

  1. Publish only documents with defined scope, explicit claims, and visible limitations.
  2. Distinguish the authorised foundational work, public working documents, and planned material.
  3. Make sources, changes, and document status traceable.
  4. Mark disagreement, uncertainty, and open questions rather than conceal them through confident language.
  5. Allow criticism to produce genuine revision of concepts, arguments, and structure.