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Abstract This essay presents a definitive, philosophically grounded rebuttal to Bevin Luchel’s (2026) series of critiques against Dr. Neville Buch’s proposal for “professional contractualism”. It demonstrates that Luchel’s defence of the “spontaneous market order of intellectual exchange” constitutes a profound category error and a form of “vulgar pragmatism” that reduces epistemic validity to transactional utility.…
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The Magoi Hermeneutic: Dismantling Institutional Arrogance and Reclaiming Cognitive Freedom Abstract This essay explores the historical concept of “magoi thinking originally a Persian Zoroastrian practice of naturalistic observation and intellectual inquiry and its systematic distortion by modern institutions and arrogant scholars who attempt to replace rigorous hermeneutics with simplistic, supernatural…