Essential Theoreticity: Hidden Invariants and Non-Canonical Inquiry

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contents <p>Theoreticity matters structurally, not merely taxonomically. This paper treats theoreticity as fiber-dependence relative to an observational projection: what is observational factors through the current public quotient, and what is theoretical still depends on the hidden fibers. Its central result identifies essential theoreticity with the maximal hidden invariant of an admissible architecture class, the largest family of hidden distinctions preserved across the allowed revision family. In non-canonical regimes, where observation is too weak to force a unique update law, that maximal hidden invariant rigidifies inquiry by constraining admissible updates and revision paths.</p> <p>Three further consequences follow. Essential hidden-role data can globalize from local evidential regimes when their fiber data descend coherently. In curved non-canonical settings, the same hidden invariant functions as a spatio-temporal stabilizer by deforming compatibly with local/global evidential geometry and preserving rectangular transport under the appropriate witness condition. Under stronger stabilized-completion hypotheses, it can also select a common admissible completion on which canonical observational order is restored and Bayesian update becomes recoverable again. The result is a structural account of theoreticity as hidden-role geometry and of essential hidden structure as the non-canonical stabilizer of disciplined inquiry.</p>
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spellingShingle Essential Theoreticity: Hidden Invariants and Non-Canonical Inquiry
Bruhacs, Lorand
Bayesian epistemology
formal epistemology
philosophy of science
category theory
scientific observation
theory change
scientific representation
theoreticity
hidden invariants
scientific structuralism
<p>Theoreticity matters structurally, not merely taxonomically. This paper treats theoreticity as fiber-dependence relative to an observational projection: what is observational factors through the current public quotient, and what is theoretical still depends on the hidden fibers. Its central result identifies essential theoreticity with the maximal hidden invariant of an admissible architecture class, the largest family of hidden distinctions preserved across the allowed revision family. In non-canonical regimes, where observation is too weak to force a unique update law, that maximal hidden invariant rigidifies inquiry by constraining admissible updates and revision paths.</p> <p>Three further consequences follow. Essential hidden-role data can globalize from local evidential regimes when their fiber data descend coherently. In curved non-canonical settings, the same hidden invariant functions as a spatio-temporal stabilizer by deforming compatibly with local/global evidential geometry and preserving rectangular transport under the appropriate witness condition. Under stronger stabilized-completion hypotheses, it can also select a common admissible completion on which canonical observational order is restored and Bayesian update becomes recoverable again. The result is a structural account of theoreticity as hidden-role geometry and of essential hidden structure as the non-canonical stabilizer of disciplined inquiry.</p>
title Essential Theoreticity: Hidden Invariants and Non-Canonical Inquiry
topic Bayesian epistemology
formal epistemology
philosophy of science
category theory
scientific observation
theory change
scientific representation
theoreticity
hidden invariants
scientific structuralism
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19057834