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Carving / Count / Aptness Tier (CV)

The Carving / Count / Aptness Tier (CV) identifies claims about how well a particular distinction, inventory, or representation captures its subject. A carving makes structure usable. Its adequacy is assessed against the distinctions and operations it needs to preserve.

Evaluating a carving

A useful carving can be precise, dependable, and explanatory. A counter-instance can expose an omitted case; a competing carving can preserve the same capacities with less distortion or add a distinction needed in practice. The comparison must identify what improves. Novel terminology alone is not a new primitive, Force, or function.

The four named primitives, two named Forces, three Theodicytes, and five SPLCW functions are the framework's working inventories. The additional assertion that an inventory exhausts every possibility at its level has an explicit proof burden. An unproven closure is not thereby refuted.

Scope of a result

A demonstrated additional case can defeat an exhaustiveness claim while preserving the usefulness of the named cases. Whether their mapping remains accurate must be assessed on its own grounds; neither automatic rejection nor automatic vindication follows from the count change.

For example, proposing Love coupled with Gratitude raises a question about the scope of Force. Establishing an additional Force requires exhibiting the coupled operation and its irreducible emergent property under the same definition. Writing a pair of names is a proposal, not that demonstration.

Relation to other tiers

FT concerns entailment within stated premises, including checks for internal incoherence. AC concerns authorized standing and attribution. CV concerns the adequacy of a carving. These grounds can apply to different aspects of one subject; their marks do not rank the subject's worth.

A stronger proof or a successful application can improve support for a CV claim. Strengthening records what has been established and for which scope, while preserving the ability to inspect the grounds.

Formal status

E: Derived, Exposition of the CV tier. A: distinguishes a working representation, its adequacy, and any further completeness claim. Provenance: the framework's carving/count distinction and kernel §§0.3–0.32.

See also

Contestability Gradient · Frame-Internal Tier · Authority-Canonical Tier · Open Proof-Burden · Two-Mark System · The 2026 Adversarial Run