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slug: oip-axiom-a1
title: Axiom A1 — Polarity
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-axiom-a1
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**A₁ — Polarity.** Everything requires its dual. Hope preserves itself because it is the opposite of despair; when despair voids the memory of hope, both are nullified. Stability is not the absence of opposition but the presence of it, held in tension. A system without its negation has no structural definition. A₁ is why the adversary is structurally necessary (Law VIII), why red-team is a mandatory factor of proof (Law V), and why this document publishes its own attack surfaces (Law X).

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