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