Library
Library
Books, papers, essays, glossary entries, references, visual archive, teaching materials, downloads, and project notes.
Section Contents
Organized reading blocks
50 mapped pages
Books
Long-form works that carry the deeper foundation for induction, objecthood, and bounded inquiry.
Research Spine
Formal papers, the future research roadmap, and the main paper archive.
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Papers
The Papers page gathers formal and semi-formal work behind the Credencing framework.
Papers in this cluster
A Formal Framework for Core and Deep RationalityPaperCore RationalityPaperThe Two-Gap Theory of Irrationality: Evidence Perception, Belief Integrity, and Diagnostic RepairPaperWarranted Uncertainty: The Discipline of Not Knowing in a Credence-First EpistemologyPaperIntelligence as Rationalization Engine: Deep Rationality, Core Rationality, and the Biased ExpertPaperInstitutional Credencing: Official Confidence, Evidence Pipelines, and Organizational Belief IntegrityPaperAI as Deep Rationality Prosthetic: Evidence Processing, Delegated Credence, and Core Rationality in AI-Mediated InquiryPaperEvidence-Proportioned Belief: A Credence-First Reframing of Faith and RationalityPaperCredence First: Against Plantinga's Warrant as an Epistemic UpgradePaperHumanity as a Middle Child in the Age of AI: Patterns of Delegation and Epistemic AtrophyPaperThe Gravity of Grammar: Binary Inertia and the Distortion of Epistemic CalibrationPaperBeyond the Binary: Linguistic Evolution and the Transition to Credence-Based DiscoursePaperThe Miracle Audit: A Probabilistic Framework for Differentiating Anomalies from Supernatural InterventionsPaperThe Architecture of Explanatory Satisfaction and the Affective Veto Against Stochastic RealityPaperFoundational Choices for the AutodidactPaperThe Asymptote of the Natural: Inductive Density and the A Posteriori Justification of Methodological NaturalismPaperThe Threshold of the Real: Inductive Density and the Emergence of the Human OnticPaperThe "Ontic Snap" as a Cognitive Phase TransitionPaperMereological Indigestion: Why We Cannot Divvy Up the BlobPaperUseful Fictions Common in Philosophical PedagogyPaperAgainst the Great Man: A Systems-Theoretic Critique of Individual AttributionPaperShort Essays
Accessible essays that turn the framework into vivid examples and conceptual repairs.
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Essays
The Essays page is a repository of Phil Stilwell essays and adapted essay material directly related to Credencing, calibration, evidence, doubt, trust, and rational integrity.
Essays in this cluster
Evidence Mapping Is a Practice, Not a SloganEssayLabels Are Not CredencesEssayFaith, Trust, and Evidence-Weighted ConfidenceEssayDoubt as the Complement of CredenceEssayCoherence Is Not EnoughEssayEvidence-Proportioned BeliefEssayBinary Thinking and Gradient ThinkingEssaySelective Blindness and Asymmetric ScrutinyEssayGrounding Ways of KnowingEssayChildlike Trust and Mature InquiryEssayUnfalsifiability and Moving GoalpostsEssayParsimony and Belief BurdensEssayThe Floating Fortress ProblemEssayProtected Predictions and Answered PrayerEssaySemantic Drift and the Word FaithEssayReference and Teaching
Definitions, frequently asked questions, sources, visuals, and classroom materials.
Related Paths
Core Ideas
The conceptual vocabulary behind the model: priors, likelihoods, posteriors, uncertainty, objective evidence, perceived evidence, assigned credence, and rationality types.
3 clusters / 21 pages
Applications
Where credencing matters: science, medicine, journalism, law, public debate, AI alignment, personal decisions, and institutional diagnostics.
2 clusters / 10 pages
About
Project overview, methodological commitments, intended use, author notes, contact, and future directions.
2 clusters / 8 pages