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irreducible type of inside as unequivocally as it requires any inside
to be continuous with an outside, regardless of its observability.
Macrocosmic invalid boundaries are also of the absolute
nonfictional variety. The theory of a finite universe is the
unjustifiable conclusion drawn from the fact that perception
(extension of electromagnetic radiation) has an upper limit or
“event horizon.” Nothing outside an observer’s event horizon can
be perceived (although each observer has a different horizon).
Unfortunately, the curvature of radiation gives us an impression of
closure; a beam of light may travel in a circular path. This has led
to geometrical “models of the universe” which explicitly deny the
continuity aspect of boundedness. Scientific cosmology has
adopted these non-Euclidean “models of space” to explain the
“finite and unbounded” (!) curvature of observations. Space,
however, is not shaped by its contents, and these models depend
upon non-arbitrary parameters to limit their extension (as well as
upon a nonfictional boundary). “Space,” as a statement of infinite
extension in any possible dimension, is Euclidean and does not
begin or end with the experience of it. The illogic of a finite
universe with no outside, as mentioned previously, is equivalent to
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that of theological “two-realm” cosmologies.
The value of the principle of boundedness for science is to
provide the understanding that although we, as observers, are
trapped between the upper and lower limits of experience, these
limits are neither absolute nor objective. Boundary analysis is also
the basic tool for breaking apart both causal theories and notions
of chance or discontinuity. If the fictional character of boundaries
is understood, there should be no proposals of irreducible entities
or non-extendable cosmos based upon empirically-derived
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“constants.”

15 “Space” in this paragraph should read “space-time.” It is an abstract frame
consisting purely of boundaries. Any propositions related to the real “universe”
have as referent some quantity of the mass-energy monist substance in which
those boundaries may be considered. See addendum for the profoundest
counter-intuitive result of applying the principle of boundedness to reality.

16 “Constants” should read “limits.”

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