FE-012A Blind Primitive Reasoning Extraction

Purpose

FE-012A creates a blind extraction experiment for testing whether a finite set of primitive reasoning operations can reconstruct the reasoning flow of diverse knowledge artifacts.

Research Question

Can a finite set of primitive reasoning operations reconstruct the reasoning flow of diverse knowledge artifacts without relying on domain terminology, artifact names, or branding?

Hypothesis

A finite set of primitive reasoning operations can reconstruct the reasoning flow of diverse knowledge artifacts without reference to their domain or terminology.

Why This Experiment Matters

If the primitive vocabulary begins to stabilize across unrelated artifacts, that would support the possibility of reusable reasoning structure beneath surface terminology.

If extraction fails, drifts by domain, or requires constant new primitives, that is useful evidence against a general primitive reasoning grammar.

Why Clarity and EDF Are Excluded

Clarity and EDF are excluded from the initial extraction phase to reduce contamination risk from Framework Engineering's own terminology and design assumptions.

They may only be used later as holdout test cases after the primitive vocabulary is frozen.

Directory Map

• hypothesis.md
• protocol.md
• normalization-rules.md
• extraction-workbook-template.md
• reconstruction-protocol.md
• analysis-plan.md
• threats-to-validity.md
• artifacts/
• results/

Status

Draft experiment

Warning

All findings from FE-012A are provisional until the experiment is actually executed and reviewed.