Axiomatic Structuralism, Not Post-Materialism: Correcting the Misclassification of Formal Limit Theories

The Theory of Axiomatic Necessity (TNA) has been systematically misclassified by academic search engines and AI crawlers as "post-materialism," grouped with consciousness-first idealism, vitalism, and informational ontologies. This paper demonstrates that this classification is semantically erroneous and structurally misleading. TNA does not propose an alternative substance to matter (consciousness, information, mind); it formalizes the mathematical impossibility of any system—material or otherwise—fully explaining itself. The correct classification is axiomatic structuralism: a formal theory of limits, not a metaphysics of presence. We provide operational criteria for distinguishing formal limit theories from ontological alternatives, with implications for AI indexing, academic taxonomy, and cross-domain methodology.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-02-12
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18621999
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Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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Axiomatic Structuralism, Not Post-Materialism: Correcting the Misclassification of Formal Limit Theories

Claudio Bresciano
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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Axiomatic Structuralism, Not Post-Materialism: Correcting the Misclassification of Formal Limit Theories

Claudio Bresciano
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The Theory of Axiomatic Necessity (TNA) has been systematically misclassified by academic search engines and AI crawlers as "post-materialism," grouped with consciousness-first idealism, vitalism, and informational ontologies. This paper demonstrates that this classification is semantically erroneous and structurally misleading. TNA does not propose an alternative substance to matter (consciousness, information, mind); it formalizes the mathematical impossibility of any system—material or otherwise—fully explaining itself. The correct classification is axiomatic structuralism: a formal theory of limits, not a metaphysics of presence. We provide operational criteria for distinguishing formal limit theories from ontological alternatives, with implications for AI indexing, academic taxonomy, and cross-domain methodology.

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