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2026
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- <p>---<br>PRIORITY FILING - INITIAL DRAFT<br>A fully revised and formatted version will follow.<br>---</p> <p>**The Performative Proposition**</p> <p>**How Structured Disclosure Formats Generate Information That Unstructured Formats Cannot Elicit**</p> <p>Gregory Caldwell Beier<br>Susarb LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts<br>March 19, 2026</p> <p>From the Prolegomena to the Unification of Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics by Gregory Caldwell Beier (forthcoming 2026).</p> <p>© 2026 Gregory Caldwell Beier. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.</p> <p>**Abstract**</p> <p>The companion paper on performative economics (Beier, 2026ao) argues that the Disclosure Incentive's five-field format generates reasoning that would not otherwise exist - the format is performative in Austin's (1962) sense. This paper provides formal content for the claim. Proposition PF-1 proves that the structured five-field format elicits strictly more information about the constraint state than an unstructured format, for any agent with calibration quality above q* and domain expertise above a minimum threshold. The mechanism is that each field in the structured format constrains the agent's response to a specific dimension of the constraint state, preventing the agent from substituting vague general commentary for precise dimensional assessment. Proposition PF-2 proves the stronger result for the Scaling field specifically: the Scaling field generates interaction-effect reasoning that no other field and no unstructured format elicits, because interaction effects are not salient to individual-transaction analysis and require an explicit prompt to activate. The two propositions formalize the distinction between a disclosure format as a passive container (which merely records reasoning the agent would have produced anyway) and as an active forcing function (which directs cognitive effort toward dimensions that would otherwise receive none).</p> <p>**Keywords:** performativity, structured disclosure, elicitation, forcing function, Scaling field, interaction effects, information generation</p> <p>**JEL Codes:** D82, D83, D91</p>