The Self-Referential Predicament of Constructive Doubt: From Oracle Bone Dating to Dinosaur Reconstruction, and Onward to an Interrogation of This Paper's Own Credibility

This note presents a deliberately extreme thought experiment concerning the epistemic construction of historical and scientific knowledge. It considers a speculative scenario in which both Oracle Bone Script materials and dinosaur-related paleontological narratives are treated as artificially constructed knowledge systems rather than empirically grounded historical records. The aim is not to challenge established scholarship, but to explore the limits of interpretive frameworks in paleography and historical epistemology. This paper explicitly states that the hypothesis is author-proposed and not widely accepted by mainstream scholarship.