Recently, someone asked me why I keep saying that the most important thing to look for in a discovery of principle is what is not there. I told him that the reason for this kind of inquiry is simple: you always want to be ready for the unexpected; that is, for something that you thought could never exist.
This report is an epistemological exercise applying the recapitulation method of Saint-Irenaeus of Lyon to the Leibniz-Poinsot analysis situs geometry of number theory. Enjoy.
ANALYSIS SITUS OF WHOLE NUMBER RECIPROCITY AND HOW TO MAKE AN AXIOMATIC CHANGE