Glossary

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Admiralty Code
Six-grade source reliability scale (A best, F lowest) used by the Ingestion Critic role.
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Backing
In Toulmin structure, the broader support for the warrant.
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BLUF
Bottom Line Up Front. The single-sentence tier of a thesis.
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Brier score
A measure of probabilistic forecast calibration; lower is better.
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Cascade
The orchestrated 16-step run that ingests sources, extracts claims, and refreshes thesis tiers.
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Coined phrase
A short transmissible label compressing a thesis's structural finding. Required before publication.
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Cynefin
A sense-making framework distinguishing simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic domains.
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Falsifying observation
A specific observable outcome that, if seen, would refute the thesis.
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IPCC scale
Verbal probability scale: virtually certain, very likely, likely, about as likely as not, unlikely, very unlikely, exceptionally unlikely.
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Linchpin
An assumption or claim whose collapse would invalidate the thesis.
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Machloket
A productive disagreement preserved as legitimate posture rather than resolved prematurely.
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OSFI
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada).
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Premortem
Analysis imagining the thesis has failed and reasoning backward to identify falsifying conditions.
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Red Team
Adversarial role producing severity-graded objections from one of six vantages.
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Root-striking
Discipline of identifying intervention levels (symptom, mechanism, structural) and refusing to publish theses that haven't reached the structural level.
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SEDAR+
Canadian securities filings repository.
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Steelman
Constructing the strongest version of an opposing position before evaluating it.
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Toulmin
Argumentation framework with six elements: data, claim, warrant, backing, qualifier, rebuttal.
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Watch set
The list of entities pinned to a thesis that route incoming claims to the thesis inbox.