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The Corruption-Stratification

Corruption-stratification separates failures at the level of act-terms, controller implementation, and governance of continuation. It lets the framework locate a failure's mechanism without forcing every case into one inventory.

The act-term model

The self–world–medium decomposition gives three positions for single-term absolutization: Nephilim, Spectre, and Homunculus. Given that decomposition and that classification rule, the three positions are covered. This is the model's positive structural result.

The result is conditional on the decomposition and scope. It does not establish that every mechanism is a single-term inflation, that no useful alternative decomposition exists, or that other levels cannot have finite taxonomies. Those are further claims requiring further arguments.

Mechanisms at different levels

Act-term: one term takes the whole's place. Identify the inflated term and the relations it displaces.
Controller implementation: a gain, sign, routing, or other mechanism is altered so regulation produces a damaging result. Installed compulsion examines a proposed case.
Governance of continuation: a system can be inspectable yet direct its activity toward harmful continuation. The answerable optimizer examines the difference between auditability and deserved continuation.

These levels can interact in one case. A captured governance process might install a controller change that reinforces self-absolutization. Locating a cause at one level does not rule out effects at another.

Failure of an aim

Sterility describes missing continuation. As a result rather than an additional term-absolutization, it does not add a fourth position to the three-term inventory. Its causes still need analysis at the relevant levels. This is the restricted contribution of the No-Fourth Argument.

Testing the stratification

The model is useful when locating the level changes the explanation or remedy. A candidate additional act-term requires demonstrating what the existing decomposition misses. A failure spanning levels requires tracing those interactions rather than relocating it merely to preserve a count.

The framework can retain and develop the three named Theodicytes while investigating these questions. Open completeness claims preserve scope; they neither invalidate effective distinctions nor certify them exhaustive.

Formal status

E: Derived, CV for the stratification; the three-position coverage is conditional on its explicit decomposition and rule. A: distinguishes mechanisms and their interactions in ways useful for diagnosis and correction. Provenance: treatise-side analysis of the Theodicytes and the proposed controller/governance cases.