Research method
Research status method
Definitions for lifecycle, evidence status, program role, review, correction, and falsification.
Status semantics
- Lifecycle
Publication state: active draft, external review, technical report, archived, or withdrawn.
- Evidence status
Support classification: formally verified, empirically demonstrated, conjectural, falsified, or not assessed.
- Program role
Current use: priority, supporting, frontier, or historical.
- External gate
Required test, review, or partner condition for advancement.
- Falsifier
Declared observation, countermodel, audit result, or review outcome that defeats or demotes a claim.
- Correction
Scoped amendment to a claim or result; the historical artifact remains unchanged.
- Withdrawal
The artifact is not a current result. Its decision record identifies the failed and retained claims.
- Archive
The artifact remains citable but is not an active program lane. Archival does not imply falsification.
Program boundary
Current evidence boundary
Modeled gluing and obstruction
Cohomology characterizes modeled compatibility and obstruction. It does not establish capture, authority, persistence, grounding, or remedy.
Execution prediction
Internal structural labels and annotation-derived outcomes do not establish execution-failure prediction.
Receipting
Receipts improve inspectability, persistence, and recourse. They do not establish the underlying event.
Glossary
Program terms
Registry definitions used across the research corpus.
- Coherence
Compatibility of modeled local claims under the specified restriction and gluing structure.
- Gluing
Constructing a global account from local data that agree on overlaps.
- Receipt
A persistent, challengeable record binding an action claim to declared authority, scope, evidence, reliance, and recourse.
- Occurrence
The action event a receipt purports to record; a receipt does not prove the world event merely by existing.
- Witness
An independently useful attestation or persistence role, whose trust and coverage assumptions must be explicit.
- Authority
The principal and bounds under which an action was permitted or claimed to be permitted.
- Reliance
A recorded decision to act on another claim under declared terms and evidence.
- Grounding
Evidence connecting a record to the external world; stronger receipting cannot manufacture grounding.
- Remedy
A reachable procedure capable of imposing a correction, reversal, compensation, or other recourse.