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Autor principal: Maley, Amos
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Publicat: Zenodo 2026
Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18525303
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  • <p>This paper establishes that <strong>structural novelty remains possible even after closure by exhaustion</strong>, but only in a strictly delimited sense. It introduces <strong>new witnesses</strong>: admissible configurations that do not extend, modify, or reopen closed structures, yet are not reducible to previously instantiated cases.</p> <p>The central result is that novelty does not arise from new laws, new primitives, or hidden degrees of freedom. Instead, it appears as <strong>previously unrealized admissible realizations</strong> within an already closed representational regime. These witnesses confirm, rather than undermine, closure by demonstrating its internal richness without extension.</p> <p>The paper blocks a common error: treating novelty as evidence against closure. It shows that closure constrains <em>what may vary</em>, not <em>which admissible instances may occur</em>. Novelty is therefore compatible with maximal closure, provided standing and admissibility are preserved.</p> <p>No constructions, generative mechanisms, or operational procedures are introduced. The results are structural and exhaustion-based.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> structural novelty, admissible witnesses, closure by exhaustion, standing, epistemic boundaries, foundations</p>