Logical Open Meta-Systems

A framework for reasoning that is permeable to external input, context, and revision. Its rules of inference or standards of evidence can be updated based on new information, practical outcomes, or the integration of other knowledge systems. Most real-world reasoning, including legal reasoning, medical diagnosis, and engineering, operates within logical open meta-systems, where formal logic must interface with messy, contingent facts and shifting goals.

Logical Open Meta-Systems Example: A courtroom's judicial process is a Logical Open Meta-System. It has formal rules of evidence and procedure (a closed subsystem), but it must admit external, empirical facts (forensic reports, witness testimony), and its ultimate standard—"proof beyond a reasonable doubt"—is a pragmatic, context-sensitive judgment call, not a purely logical deduction.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

FBI Open Up

When you are watching TV involving suspicious amonguses in your house

Guy: "I think I'll play some Among Us"
Guy: "Ooh I'm impostor"
Guy: "I think I'll kill this guy"
FBI: "FBI open up"

by MeowMeow3030 February 22, 2025

Close-open

In the restaurant industry, a close-open is when a restaurant employee locks up (last to leave) or ends work at closing time of the establishment, then opens (first to arrive) or begins work at opening time of the following day

Sorry dude, I can't hang out tonight. They got me working a close-open.
Two close-opens in a row?!? Is that even legal?

by Slugmoid_Enjoyer March 11, 2025

wide slam open

Full throttle. Full speed ahead. When a person is hyper, full of energy, and excited about everything.

That crazy dude at the party was wide slam open.

by caniacattack May 5, 2009

a little wide open

to be intoxicated from alcohol.

Janet had a few too many drinks and ended up a little wide open at the end of the night.

by counter top 3 January 16, 2014

I'll slice you open like an envelope

Used commonly by football hooligans, 'I'll slice you open like an envelope' can hint that the person saying the phrase is carrying a knife and intends to use it lethally on the person they are saying the phrase too. Can also mean that the person it's being said too acts 'big' and 'untouchable' and the person saying it is easily going to beat them up.

'Threat'

Football hooligan- 'you think you can take me on?'
Opposing team football hooligan- 'I'll slice you open like an envelope'

by Cpfcjames September 5, 2016

eyes wide open

Two partners start kissing one another with their eyes open and who ever closes their eyes or laughes looses.

Me and my boyfriend played eyes wide open last night and I won!

by Rayann24 November 14, 2016