Tensionism: A Philosophical and Ontological Hypothesis and an Architectural Framework for Building Systems

Tensionism is presented as a hypothesis in two parts. The first is philosophical and ontological: perhaps there is no final or absolute truth when contemplating a natural system, but an irreducible final tension, and truths are relative to a state and an observer. The second is an architectural framework: four poles in two pairs, a sign (positive, negative) and a degree (amplifier, reducer), with the state of a system as a point among four magnitudes. The framework is used in the Geometric Decision Engine of the Cognitive Coherence Model and in the Language Coherence Model, including an arithmetic module outside cognition. The paper states its limits, what would count against it, and that it is not validated; whether it represents anything beyond what is theorized is left to experts in each field. It also lists related works that converge with it at some points.