Facetism: Overcoming the Determinism-Chaos Doctrine

Abstract

This interdisciplinary study explores facetism as a novel methodological design to overcome the conventional scientific and philosophical framing of reality as a binary opposition between deterministic order and chaotic disorder, which facetism sees as a fundamental conceptual and linguistic error. Neither strict determinism nor true chaos exists in nature. Reality is continuous fluxperpetual movement and transformation at varying intrinsic speeds, governed by distinct yet interdependent principles across relational, multi-layered domains called facets. Apparent rest, stasis, equilibrium-as-stillness, and both order and chaos are optical delusions arising from human parametric misconceptions-our limited metrics, scales, models, and timescales that fail to capture the full dynamism of existence. Facetism is a systematic, evidence-oriented methodology that rejects rigid universal equations and final theories, recognising that the number of relevant layers, their transformation speeds, and the intensity/direction of cross-layer interactions are fundamentally unknown and in principle unknowable. Models remain truncated approximations with a large, irreducible remainder. By prioritising relational, multi-scalar descriptions, facet-aware methodologies explicitly acknowledge layer-dependence, incorporate speed differentials, and remain open to principle bleed across boundaries. This framework dissolves artificial binaries, reevaluates equilibrium as transient within permanent flux, and critiques philosophy's detachment from evidence that enables ideological persistence despite empirical failure. Facetism offers a humble, adaptive alternative-pro-evidence, pro-openness, and pro-relational understanding-capable of better grappling with the complexity of a flux-driven universe.