Every research artifact on this site carries an epistemic status. It's not decoration — it's the contract.
A philosophical or foundational position. It may motivate research. It is not presented as demonstrated.
We don't currently know. It's recorded because the answer could change the framework.
Specific enough that an argument or experiment could support or contradict it.
Precise enough — mathematically, computationally, procedurally — to inspect and attack. Formalisation is not correctness.
Currently being tested. Treat results as provisional.
Survived predefined repeat testing under stated conditions. Not universal validity.
Reproduced by someone who doesn't work here. The standard we want more of.
The prediction didn't survive. It stays in the archive.
Replaced by a newer formulation. The old one stays reachable.
Primitive works across four connected layers.
Philosophical
What do we assume exists? What is state? What is difference? What draws a boundary? What is an observer? At what point does a pattern deserve to be treated as an object?
Representational
How do we encode those ideas? Coordinates, states, graphs, fields, relations, context, uncertainty, temporal position, scale, observer-relative boundaries.
Transformational
How can a representation change? What operators alter perspective, scale, boundary, time, semantic state, relationship? Which transformations preserve information — and which destroy it?
Experimental
Does any of it improve an actual task — retrieval, reasoning, prediction, planning, coordination, compression, decision support? If the answer is no, we need to know.