Non-Verifiability-Success-Error

[Preprint] A formal demonstration of a fundamental asymmetry in epistemic verification: material success cannot verify cognitive correctness, but material failure can falsify cognitive error. Identifies the root category error "success = correctness" and formalizes the asymmetry using social-cognitive dynamics.

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Open Science Framework
Published
2026-07-22
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/kfsnv
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Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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Non-Verifiability-Success-Error

Xiao Qiyun
Open Science Framework
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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Non-Verifiability-Success-Error

Xiao Qiyun
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Abstract

[Preprint] A formal demonstration of a fundamental asymmetry in epistemic verification: material success cannot verify cognitive correctness, but material failure can falsify cognitive error. Identifies the root category error "success = correctness" and formalizes the asymmetry using social-cognitive dynamics.

Open Science Framework
Reduced inequalities
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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