Critical Thinking: The Principle of Negative Definition

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Gleaning information where there is none offered. Reading signals in the wake a subject leaves behind.

"Abstract: This paper introduces the Principle of Negative Definition — a method of analyzing concealed systems through their external distortions, omissions, and unintended effects. In contexts where direct inquiry is blocked, information is scarce, or institutions actively suppress scrutiny, this principle offers a framework for inferring structure from shadow. Drawing on analogies from physics, psychology, and institutional behavior, we argue that hidden systems reveal themselves not through what they say, but through what they displace."

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