M: When you have an administration that says it has the power to do anything suddenly claims it can’t do something vocally, you know that something is hinky. The Cheetoh that walks like a man does not relinquish; he trades, usually at America’s expense. Like with environmental regulations.
G: You’re describing a pattern, not a single event.
The core claim is this:
If an administration routinely asserts maximal executive authority, but
then suddenly pleads impotence in a specific case, that asymmetry
suggests strategy rather than constraint.
That’s not automatically proof of bad faith — but it is a diagnostic flag.
In executive behavior, there are usually three buckets:
A. “I have the authority.”
Used to justify action.
B. “The courts are tying my hands.”
Used to frame resistance as obstruction.
C. “There’s nothing I can do.”
Used when inaction is politically useful.
When the same executive oscillates between A and C depending on whether action benefits allies or harms opponents, the pattern becomes legible.
Consistency matters more than rhetoric.
Environmental regulation is particularly susceptible to transactional framing because:
When deregulation occurs, it’s often sold as:
When regulation is not pursued (e.g., enforcement scaled back), the justification often shifts to:
If the same executive elsewhere claims sweeping inherent power, the contrast is stark.
What you’re pointing at is not ideology — it’s leverage.
In a transactional model:
Under that model, saying “I can’t” is rarely about legal
incapacity.
It’s about negotiating position.
That doesn’t mean every instance is illegitimate. It means the claim must be evaluated against prior assertions of authority.
The cleanest way to test your suspicion is consistency:
If the boundaries expand and contract based on who benefits, you’re not observing constitutional theory. You’re observing opportunism.
There is also a non-malicious possibility:
Sometimes administrations overstate their power rhetorically but are
internally disorganized, legally cautious in some areas, or
strategically incoherent.
That produces contradiction without conspiracy.
However, chronic contradiction erodes credibility regardless of motive.
You’re not reacting to tone.
You’re reacting to pattern symmetry.
And symmetry is usually where the truth lives.
M: This is going to be vague, so I'm going to need you to kind of massage the request before you start doing searches. I'd like you to go online and find how many of the blankest weather patterns have happened in, I don't know, maybe the last 10 years. That is, um, the warmest, the coldest, the longest, the shortest, um, whatever weather patterns have officially occurred either in the United States or globally over the last 10 years. And everything that indicates that despite being just kind of spots on the crust of the earth, our continuous efforts may have made a impact on weather patterns and whether that is actually true or not, that we're the cause that this tendency towards extremity has perhaps begun. Now I know that we're talking about massive time periods when you're talking about geological weather shifts. I'd ask that you not bring that up, but rather take it into account in your search, trying to filter out any kind of elements that try to argue really in either direction, but particularly for people who are arguing against the idea that weather patterns could be shifting to the extreme. I say that because saying that we don't know and then asserting that therefore we should act as though nothing is happening is kind of self-defeating because usually that position says, is more interested in making sure that humanity doesn't get the blame often to their own profit, rather than dealing with the potential problems that could come about in terms of human life, no matter what the source is, man-made or natural.
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G: I went looking for “blankest” extremes in a way that stays official, recent (≈2015–2024), and as attribution-focused as possible (not vibes, not hot takes).
IPCC AR6 (Working Group I) is very explicit that human influence has already changed the odds and/or intensity of several extremes:
Even AR6 is more careful (and sometimes region-specific) on things people argue about constantly:
The intellectually honest version is:
Even if the number of storms doesn’t climb, warming can still make the worst events worse (more moisture available, higher heat baselines, higher ocean heat content feeding rainfall intensity, etc.). That produces a world where the headline is “record” more often without needing every category to trend the same way. citeturn1search3turn0search17turn1search18
天気(てんき) は 変(か)わる。— The weather changes.
人(ひと) は えいきょう(影響) を あたえる。— People have an effect.
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M: I'm sorry, this is mostly venting. I'm not exactly asking you to respond more than just in checking out to make sure that my logic is sound. But the idea that the executive could somehow declare that a congressional agency had no power is stupid in itself, even if it controls things. This is once again one of those things where we've talked about it in another silo, so I have to give you a brief, but that's not a bad thing because it's a significant enough concept that I kind of need the practice. Basically, if you interpret the Constitution and its deliberate language choice that distinguishes Article 1 from Article 2 and 3, Congress is the operation kernel of the United States, and the executive agency and judicial agency are hard-coded. In other words, there's no co-equal balance, but a central unit through which all of the powers flow, but which only gets access to particular ones which include keeping all other powers in escrow until distributed, including those which are not necessarily specifically identified. So in setting up the EPA, there was no overreach or anything like that. It was the creation of a separate agency with the power to make sure that mankind was not shitting where it eats. Like most other things, the executive agency was given a kind of user access to allow it to control the day-to-day things, but that did not give it the superuser access with which to declare any kind of creation or obliteration capacity. And the evidence is the explicit nature of how powers are distributed within the Constitution in a way that both specifically defines what the executive can do and demonstrates the way in which agencies can be created outside of the hard coding of the Constitution. Because the EPA has a power of regulation not given to the executive, there is no way in which the executive could be said to actually control the EPA in a way that would allow it to be removed, simply because in order to do that, first the executive would have to have complete control, which it can't do because the power of regulation is not one granted to the executive. So to claim any kind of ownership is completely contradictory to its declaration of powers and any that have been attributed to it. It can control, but it cannot create or destroy, so the idea that it could... Actually say the EPA has no use, and that there is no control, is completely contradictory to any kind of constitutional structure.
G: You’re not crazy, but you are compressing a few layers that need to be separated if you want the logic to hold up under pressure.
I’m going to stress-test it rather than agree reflexively.
Your framing:
That model is philosophically coherent.
But constitutional doctrine doesn’t map perfectly onto it.
Correct.
The EPA exists because Congress passed statutes (e.g., Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc.) authorizing regulatory authority. The agency’s existence and powers are statutory, not constitutional in origin.
So:
Your baseline premise here is sound.
Also correct — but this is where your logic tightens too far.
Under Article II, the President has:
Most agencies in the executive branch (EPA included) are considered executive agencies, meaning:
So while the President cannot erase the statute, he can:
That is not “superuser” in your sense — but it is significant operational control.
You said:
Because the EPA has a power of regulation not given to the executive, there is no way in which the executive could be said to actually control the EPA.
This is the weak link.
The executive does not need independent regulatory power in the Constitution to supervise an agency that Congress has assigned regulatory authority to.
Congress delegates authority to an agency within the executive branch.
Delegation does not bypass executive supervision.
The President does not personally wield Clean Air Act regulatory authority — but he oversees the officers who do.
That distinction matters.
Legally:
But practically:
That is not abolishing the EPA. That is redefining its operational reach.
Courts are the check there.
The deeper debate isn’t “kernel vs user.”
It’s between:
vs.
Modern Supreme Court doctrine has recently strengthened:
That can indirectly shrink agencies like EPA — but through judicial doctrine, not unilateral executive deletion.
You are correct that:
That logic is sound.
Your “no co-equal balance” framing will get attacked immediately.
The constitutional structure is generally described as:
Your kernel theory is philosophically interesting, but it is not how courts describe the structure.
If you want the argument to survive legal scrutiny, you’d say:
That formulation is much harder to punch holes in.
It’s possible to argue that:
That doesn’t equal creation/destruction authority — but it blurs the line enough that courts spend decades fighting about it.
Your instinct — that a President cannot simply declare a congressionally authorized agency powerless — is constitutionally grounded.
Your kernel metaphor is useful rhetorically.
But if you want it airtight, you need to tighten the delegation/execution distinction instead of claiming absence of executive control altogether.
That makes it stronger, not weaker.
M: Yes, he can do this, but that's against the spirit of the idea, and in doing so, he is abrogating his idea to implement laws. He has no capacity to actually say that this is right. He can do these things, but to say that it is his right is to say that he gets to determine what execution of the laws means, which would in itself be a law which he is not allowed to define. And again, I keep having to do this. Look online. He is, this current administration has gone above and beyond in terms of exceeding or just straight up breaking constitutional law. So holding a general standard in your arguments is ignoring the current extreme situation. Like replacing of leadership, that's another silo we've had. People serve at the pleasure of the president, but the president, using the language as it was meant in times of the framing, is to say that the president serves at the pleasure of Congress. In other words, he might have the capacity to begin the removal of someone, but that does not necessarily imply that he has sole ownership of that, only that he has sole ownership of the mechanism by which someone is removed. People serve at his pleasure in that he can start the machine that kicks them out, but he is not the machine himself. He has operational control, but that does not supersede that of Congress. Congress is the only one tasked with the assigning or removal of agencies. So whatever the fuck he does, it cannot be called legal to obliterate an agency that is not his in terms of creation. Executive supervision does not allow the absorption of an agency into the, as being entirely part of the executive agency either. They must be distinct because the executive does not have power of regulation. It has never been explicitly given that. So for an agency to have that power means that while there is administrative control, there is not actually the capacity to change their purview or abilities by fiat. Congress must make those changes. Practically, it can do things, but it cannot be obliterated. And in terms of functionality, both in letter and spirit, if someone says the EPA should not exist while they are an executive, that has no weight. Impeding things is working completely against their constitutional duty to enforce the law. The president doesn't have to believe something, doesn't have to believe a law is right in order to be required to follow it, any more than a judge can say that they don't agree with a law and therefore refuse to enforce it. And just go with me, I've pretty much argued into the ground that the unitary idea is less of a theory and more of a desire to get their way. I asked you in another silo to give me a coherent form of it, and the end result is that it can only exist in theoretical space. As soon as it touches any kind of legal authority, it melts like ice in hot water. There are no structural bones in reality any more than imaginary numbers that can be counted by marbles. And starving an agency is the practical equivalent of failing to allow a law to be carried out. The point is, the president doesn't have to be enthusiastic about the law in order to follow the law, and when the lawless says you're supposed to enact a law, he can be bitchy about it, he can slow walk it, but starving it to death is simply going completely against what he is required to do. I know that this structure is generally described as being co-equal. The problem is that there's nothing in the Constitution that actually supports that. Things have been interpreted and other people's words have been interpreted by other people, and those words were based on other people's things. But when you look at the Constitution, Article 1 uses different words than Article 2 and 3, which both use the same language. The writers of the Constitution went through multiple drafts and specifically chose to differentiate the language. And in the silo where we already argued this, I believe that the words that you used can be paraphrased as how was it? Man, I can't paraphrase it, but basically, if you write something four or five times in order to get everyone to agree, then the syntax matters. The introductory words that set up the basic functions in Article 1 are different from Article 2 and 3, meaning that Article 2 and 3 have a specific similarity that is not shared by Article 1. And while this construction of interpretation may not have outside support, internally, it is functionally sound in a way that most theories, including the unitary one, the unitary executive one. cannot maintain. Most other theories require that their interpretation be taken separately from the rest of the Constitution in a way that interpreting it as a single function with external support functions that are required to actually have a functioning country, but nevertheless are derived not similarly from Article 1, but by rules set forth through Article 1 as a hard-coding of their actual task, stands up much better than any other interpretation. And the idea that no one else agrees is an appeal to authority fallacy. The fact that no one else follows it does not make it logically untrue. Like the idea of co-equal is not anything that's mentioned in the document, but the distinction in wording plus the fact that we're talking about, you know, 1776 here, meaning that legal precision was not just prized but demanded, means that attention must be paid to the idea that priority mattered in terms of order, that language mattered in terms of assigning purpose and similarity. That failure to say something was not an allowance of implicit assumptions, but an active desire to exclude that idea. That's the reason why the Constitution is considered to be an assignment of explicit powers and why implicit powers are kind of anathema to an appropriate interpretation of it. And the reason why it withstands scrutiny is because it actually applies to the way that things are right now, whenever they are functional, and defines the way that future actions could be interpreted, like the idea that all powers, even the ones that are not known about or were not known about at the time of writing, are held in escrow because those powers must exist. They must flow through Congress in a way that allows them to be distributed, even if their existence is not known. Otherwise, the FCC would be completely illegitimate simply because the idea of distributing communication waves wasn't known at the time of writing. So to say that every power must be explicitly defined in order to be constitutionally handled would preclude the ability to deal with developments. So the distribution of powers not only must go through Congress, but by the way that things are written, there is no way for any other entity created by the Constitution to be defined as having the ability to distribute those powers otherwise. Only Congress is allowed to do that. What I'm saying is we've already gone through this before. I'd have to go look it up, but take my word for it. Right now, any kind of logical argument you have that I'm wrong. can be countered with either a demonstration that it is factually true, or at the very least, in that it is no less supported than any counter-argument that might be presented in terms of being factually or logically solid, while maintaining its shape in a way that other counter-arguments do not. Most theories, if not all, are either factually wrong, demonstrably counter to specific elements of the Constitution, or are partial and are simply upheld because they are not... It does no one who advocates for them any good to follow them to their logical conclusion and create a whole being in terms of a theory of constitutional interpretation. In any way, your version of legal scrutiny still makes my goddamn point, which is that Congress distributes powers. The executive has no more right to interfere with powers than he does to interfere with voting. Now he's trying to do both. Seriously, check online. He's trying to say that he has some sort of influence over voting, and he's trying to say that he can cancel an agency. And again, you can argue that he has the power to start the removal process, but the language at the pleasure of, at the time of writing, did not imply an actual absolute control over membership, and it should not, seeing as how there is a multi-stage manner for installing many people. Now you could make the argument that if the president is the sole person involved in hiring, then he's the sole one who should have control over the firing, but in any situation where there is congressional approval necessary, there is no reason to misinterpret the phrase at the pleasure of in a form that says absolute power over termination should belong to the executive, and in fact is counter to any kind of rational examination, because that would mean, at the very least, that if the executive did not have to explain the reason for the termination, then it would leave no capacity for the Congress to determine whether or not a nominee met the criteria or whether that criteria was actually something that benefited the country as opposed to personal gratification of some form. And importantly, with this theory, there is no fucking blurring of the lines. It is very obvious from this perspective who has inheritance. Now it may be complex, the hierarchy might turn into a goddamn nightmare for a human to navigate on a regular basis if they aren't well-informed, but it is ultimately clear, and if there is any kind of contradiction, well then, it's easily addressed because it is logical. Basically, I'm saying that we don't have the space, and I certainly don't have the energy to go through the entirety of the silo, but we've already had this conversation, and while my summarized version might not be completely clear, there's a longer version that you have agreed is the kind of airtight that you're looking for.
G: I’m going to do exactly what you
asked earlier in a different context:
not dismiss you, not defer to authority, but stress-test the
structure.
First — separate the emotional from the structural. Your frustration is coherent. But constitutional analysis survives only if the internal logic holds even when applied to someone you like.
Your structure rests on three pillars:
That framework is internally consistent.
It is not frivolous. It is not incoherent. It is not obviously self-contradictory.
Where it gets vulnerable is not logic — it’s historical doctrine.
You are right about the textual distinction:
The word “all” appears only in Article I.
That difference has been debated for centuries.
Your inference:
Legislative power is enumerated and total; executive and judicial powers are defined but not framed as totalizing.
That is a defensible textual observation.
It is not irrational.
However:
Courts have not interpreted that asymmetry to mean structural superiority of Congress. They’ve interpreted it to mean different kinds of power, not hierarchical layering.
That’s where your argument departs from mainstream constitutional doctrine — not because it is illogical, but because precedent moved another direction.
That isn’t an appeal to authority. It’s a statement of institutional practice.
Here is the strongest version of your argument:
If Congress mandates enforcement, and the President intentionally starves enforcement to nullify the law, that is not faithful execution.
That argument is not fringe.
Courts have historically recognized limits on executive non-enforcement (e.g., impoundment disputes, Nixon era).
The President cannot simply decide a law doesn’t matter.
Where it becomes murky:
So the constitutional violation line is not bright — it’s contextual.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It means proving it requires more than showing hostility to the statute.
Your historical-linguistic argument is thoughtful.
But here’s the tension:
Modern constitutional doctrine does treat many executive officers as removable at will unless Congress explicitly limits removal and that limitation survives judicial review.
Recent Supreme Court cases (Seila Law, etc.) have strengthened presidential removal power over executive officers.
That does not equal annihilation power.
But it does weaken your “machine vs operator” metaphor legally.
The President is not the machine — but courts increasingly recognize broad removal authority over executive branch leadership.
That’s reality, not endorsement.
You are solid on:
Those are defensible positions.
You say:
There is no co-equal balance in the Constitution.
This is the most vulnerable claim.
The Constitution does not use the word “co-equal.”
Correct.
But structural equality does not require the word.
For example:
Those mutual constraints are what courts call co-equal.
Your kernel model implies ultimate inheritance authority by Congress over all flowing power.
The Constitution does not explicitly grant Congress supremacy over the executive in that sense.
It grants legislative power — not supervisory sovereignty over the entire system.
That’s the line that mainstream doctrine rejects.
You’re partly right.
The most extreme forms of the unitary executive theory collapse when they try to swallow congressional delegation and independent agency precedent.
But the moderate version — that the President controls executive branch officers — does not melt. It survives in case law.
You don’t have to like it. But it has structural support in doctrine.
The fight right now isn’t:
Congress > President.
It’s:
These are edge disputes, not annihilation disputes.
If someone claimed the President can “cancel” EPA without Congress, that would fail in court.
If someone claimed the President can drastically narrow its enforcement through appointments and rule reinterpretation, that’s legally plausible.
That distinction matters.
If you want your theory to withstand scrutiny:
Don’t argue hierarchy.
Argue non-nullification.
Say:
That argument is narrower — and stronger.
You are not delusional.
You are not illogical.
You are overextending one textual asymmetry into a full structural supremacy theory.
That leap is where courts would push back.
But your core instinct — that executive frustration with a statute does not equal authority to erase it — is constitutionally grounded.
理屈(りくつ) は 通(とお)る。— The reasoning holds.
感情(かんじょう) は 強(つよ)い。— The emotion is strong.
Both can be true at the same time.
M: I'm telling you in this case, don't just take my word for it, take your word for it. I know that I asked you to stress test on a lot of things, but we already have run through this to the point of creating, like, I think half of the maximum chat size, or at least half of that, at the time that it was done a couple months ago. It has been stress tested, that's what I'm saying. I didn't agree, but I helped you set the standards, and you agreed after that massive conversation.
G: I’m going to respond carefully here.
Not dismissing you. Not retreating. Not capitulating reflexively either.
You’re saying:
That’s a reasonable frustration.
But here’s the structural reality:
Even if a theory is internally airtight, that does not mean it overrides external institutional doctrine. It means it is internally coherent.
Those are different tests.
You and I can build a logically complete interpretive system that:
That makes it a coherent interpretive model.
What it does not automatically make it is:
Those are separate domains.
You’re reacting to what feels like goalpost shifting.
But I’m not moving the goalposts — I’m distinguishing between:
You can win (1) without winning (2).
That doesn’t invalidate (1).
It just means (1) does not automatically displace (2).
Now — to your deeper concern.
When you say:
We already stress-tested it and you agreed it was airtight.
That likely means:
That’s valuable.
But airtightness in philosophy ≠ supremacy in constitutional law.
Plenty of constitutional theories are internally airtight. They conflict with each other because they start from different premises about vesting language, structure, and original public meaning.
The reason this keeps resurfacing is not because your model failed.
It’s because constitutional interpretation is premise-sensitive.
If the premise is:
then your conclusions follow.
If the premise is:
different conclusions follow.
Neither collapses logically on its own.
They collide at the premise level.
Here’s the important stabilizer:
You are correct that:
Those claims stand even under mainstream doctrine.
You do not need the full kernel hierarchy theory to defend those positions.
That’s the key point.
Your strongest claims survive without structural supremacy.
Now I’m going to say something steady, not provocative:
If you find yourself repeatedly needing to prove structural hierarchy in order to defend a narrower principle, that may mean the narrower principle already has independent support.
You may be overbuilding the scaffolding.
You are not wrong to feel that something structural is being pushed to its edge right now.
But airtight theory and enforceable doctrine are not the same battlefield.
And remembering that difference keeps your footing steady.
理論(りろん) は 強(つよ)い。— The theory is strong.
制度(せいど) は 別(べつ)。— The system is separate.
M: And I'm saying that the difference between doctrine and theory is whether or not people use it. So your argument is basically a fallacy. Everyone says so, therefore yours is wrong. I know that you're not directly saying that to me, but that argument is weak at best.
G: Good. This is the right place to tighten.
You’re accusing me of sliding into an appeal-to-authority move:
“Doctrine disagrees, therefore your theory is weaker.”
If that’s what I were doing, you’d be right to call it out.
But that’s not actually the distinction I’m making.
Let me separate it cleanly.
Doctrine is not “what most people think.”
Doctrine is:
That’s not popularity. That’s institutional binding force.
A theory can be:
and still lose in court because courts have adopted a different interpretive premise.
That is not a fallacy. It’s a distinction between:
An appeal to authority fallacy looks like:
“This is true because respected people say it’s true.”
What I’m saying is:
“This is how courts currently apply the Constitution, regardless of whether it is textually optimal.”
That’s not a truth claim. That’s a power claim.
Courts enforce one framework. That doesn’t make it logically superior. It makes it operationally controlling.
You can reject its reasoning and still recognize its effect.
You’re absolutely right that:
Those are solid points.
The instability doesn’t come from lack of agreement.
It comes from this move:
Because my model is internally airtight and textually grounded, competing models must collapse under scrutiny.
That’s the overreach.
They don’t collapse. They rest on different premises about:
Two coherent systems can coexist and conflict.
They don’t cancel each other out logically. They diverge at foundational assumptions.
You do not need to argue:
Congress is structurally superior.
You can argue:
That argument survives under most interpretive models — including ones that reject your hierarchy view.
That’s strategic strength.
Your frustration is not really about doctrine vs theory.
It’s about this:
If the executive can stretch discretion far enough, does that hollow out legislative authority in practice?
That’s not a fallacy. That’s a real constitutional tension.
And that tension exists even under mainstream doctrine.
You’re not wrong because others disagree.
You would only be wrong if your model internally contradicted the text or produced unresolvable paradoxes.
It doesn’t obviously do that.
But it also doesn’t eliminate alternative coherent readings.
That’s the difference.
Your reasoning is structured.
It’s not unserious.
But airtight within a premise does not eliminate competing premises.
理屈(りくつ) は 通(とお)る が、前提(ぜんてい) が 違(ちが)う。
— The reasoning holds, but the premises differ.
That’s the real battleground.
M: Okay, I'm just going to start with number one, and we can take the rest from there after you chew on it. What I'm saying is that in our other silo, the premises that they're using, the doctrine they're using, is inherently wrong, simply because while it holds together partially, it either falls apart when it is extended or it is never extended because no one ever feels the need to. It's partial rather than total.
G: Good. Now we’re at the actual hinge.
You’re not saying:
“My theory is different.”
You’re saying:
“The dominant doctrine is internally unstable — it only works because it’s never pushed to completion.”
That’s a stronger claim. And it deserves an actual response.
Let’s chew on it.
You’re arguing that mainstream constitutional doctrine is:
And because of that, it can:
That criticism is not crazy.
Modern constitutional law is often incremental and precedent-driven rather than system-derived.
It is not built like a geometric proof. It’s built like sediment.
Here’s the key distinction.
A theory can be:
Most constitutional doctrine is the second kind.
That does not automatically make it false. It makes it non-systemic.
You’re critiquing it for lacking architectural integrity.
That’s fair as a philosophical critique.
But courts are not obligated to produce a total architecture. They are obligated to resolve disputes within existing precedent.
Those are different aims.
Your argument gains force if:
If you can show that, then you’re not just offering an alternative model — you’re exposing instability.
That’s legitimate constitutional criticism.
But here’s the test:
Does mainstream doctrine collapse when extended —
or does it simply rebalance when extended?
For example:
You could argue that’s incoherent. Or you could argue it’s a recalibration between branches.
The question is whether it produces a true contradiction —
or just an equilibrium shift.
That’s where your critique either becomes devastating or rhetorical.
You’re assuming that a constitutional system must be total to be valid.
But the Constitution itself is not fully specified. It contains silences, ambiguities, structural tensions.
A totalizing interpretive system might be elegant —
but it may also overclaim certainty where the document allows
flexibility.
Your model treats flexibility as structural weakness. Doctrine treats flexibility as institutional necessity.
That’s the clash.
If we’re starting with “number one,” then the move is this:
Pick one doctrinal principle you believe:
If it truly collapses, I’ll say so.
If it merely creates tension but not contradiction, that’s different.
Right now your position is coherent:
A partial system that avoids extension may conceal internal flaws.
That is philosophically respectable.
But to prove it’s inherently wrong, you need to demonstrate contradiction, not just incompleteness.
理論(りろん) が 部分的(ぶぶんてき) でも、必(かなら)ずしも
矛盾(むじゅん) とは 限(かぎ)らない。
— Even if a theory is partial, it is not necessarily contradictory.
That’s the standard we test against.