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lemma: No line of rational agents can avoid extinction unless there exists
a lineal-autotelic principle of reason.
: see @ 20_lemma.brec
- It follows there exists a lineal-autotelic principle of reason.
- As the author of its own content, if reason were to exclude a lineal-autotelic principle,
then it would burden itself and all its agents with the prospect of certain extinction,
thereby defeating itself.
- Reason would be auto-destructive and contemptible, and that is an absurd conclusion.
- This is an age-old principle of integrity.
- It is that by which reason holds itself together.
- For it has always been the warrant of each principle proper to it, that without it,
reason would fall like a house of cards.
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