Paper 48 · VII. Epistemics & Meta-Method
Regime Predicates and the Limits of State-Space Reduction
In production (complete)A lemma defending regime-level predicates against the strategy of “explaining them away” by expanding a lower-level state space.
Function in corpus
Methodological shield for the entire corpus. It protects higher-regime analysis from flattening into brute state-space description.
Details
Connected papers: Constraint-Type and Explanatory Levels; Logic as a Regime, Not a Foundation; Informational Ontology; Working as Designed: Diagnosing Alignment Failure Without Error The paper targets a familiar reduction move: if one adds enough variables or recursive machinery, higher-order predicates seem to disappear. It argues that trajectory reproduction alone is insufficient for reduction when persistence conditions and regime predicates are what actually carry the explanatory burden.
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