# kaal:claim:3782220-035

**Claim.** Unlike scientific laws, transcendental values cannot be stated formally and explicitly, so they must be authored by people in touch with transcendental beauty, true poets, who are nevertheless grounded in concrete understanding of the universe and its laws.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- construction of unifying values for a network

**Source quote.**

> Transcendental values cannot be stated formally and explicitly, unlike scientific laws. People who are in touch with transcendental beauty, true poets, need to be the authors of our transcendental values.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Universal values from science and poetry, page 13

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** transcendental-values, poetry, formalization-limits, folk-theorems, value-authorship

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