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As for the points on the writings:

True Lab
The issue here is that a human is supposedly a SOUL housed within a body. Separating the two means that there is no physicality to the human SOULs - how can they be more "physical" than monsters when most monsters are at least made of dust? Determination was removed from something with no physicality - how can Alphys point to a human's physicality as the reason that they can have more of it than monsters?
 * Alphys says herself that she extracted the stuff that gives human SOULs the ability to persist after death and named it " Determination ." (Entry 5)
 * She says that monsters forms aren't physical enough to handle "determination."

The Prophecy
I was vague and confused before (gah, that's what I get for posting after work), so I'll clarify. Here's what Gerson says:

The Delta Rune came before the Ancient Glyphs - the idea is that monsters applied meaning to something that came before they were sealed Underground. How do they "know" that the monsters are the triangles below when they couldn't be because monsters weren't Underground yet?

That's the contradiction I was talking about. I wasn't clear about it the first time through. Sorry. ^^'

(Moreso, how do they know that seven SOULs will open the barrier? Gah, whatever)

Ancient Glyphs
I know that they were working with the knowledge they had. The idea is that we can't always trust books or people's words because they are from a biased perspective that may assume facts that aren't based in reality.

Snowdin Library
The protagonist's SOUL shatters time and again after HP reaches 0. This is in direct contradiction to what's said in the library. Also, assumptions that monsters SOULs cannot persist outside of their (dusty) bodies is incorrect as well, as seen in TP ending.