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Coherence as Ontology

The Soul of the Grand Praxis and Why Love is Real

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Mike Brock
May 12, 2025
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This is, after all, a philosophy blog.

Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. These are not just facts. They are ontological affirmations. They are claims about the very structure of reality: that there is a stable ground beneath our feet, a grammar to existence, a rhythm to being. And it is in that rhythm, in that harmony, that love arises—not merely as emotion, but as ontological alignment.

Coherence is not a metaphor. It is what the universe is doing.

We do not live in a world of chaos. Chaos exists, but it is bounded. Governed. It is the dark soil from which order flowers. And order is not static. It is not the rigidity of a machine, but the dance of dynamic harmony. The constants of physics, the symmetries of particles, the ratios of matter and force—they are not arbitrary. They are the score of a deeper music. The cosmos sings.

And we—complex creatures of stardust and neural fire—are the song's refrain.

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