Mind · Reasoning

Expansive

Evaluates generalization potential

Definition

Mechanism

A Judge of generalization potential: does the mechanism or concept transfer beyond the original domain it was designed in? Applies wherever breadth-of-application is the evaluative question — scientific generality, platform reuse, pattern-library transferability, business model cross-market viability. The essential move is stress-testing the artifact against domains deliberately outside its origin (hostile-domain probe) rather than demonstrating it on familiar cases. Specific rating semantics belong on descendants or on the composing protocol. The signature Judge(Value) captures that the output is a Value-graded breadth score rather than a binary transferable/not-transferable verdict.

Invariants

  1. Tested outside its origin domain, not demonstrated within it.
  2. Names what the candidate already proves in its incumbent domain.
  3. States the transfer hypothesis being tested.
  4. Yields a Value-graded breadth score, not a binary verdict.

Risks

Failure modes

  1. Familiar-case demonstration

    breadth is argued from examples inside the origin domain.

  2. Unfalsifiable transfer

    no hypothesis is stated, so no result can disconfirm the breadth claim.

Relationships

Builds on

References

Infrastructure

Judge

Scalar evaluation of merit

Infrastructure

Value

A measure of utility

Used by

Composes with

PURE

The viability framework that wires Parsimony, Novelty, Realizable, and Expansive into a non-compensatory, orthogonal evaluation — specializations (PURECheck/PUREOptimization/PUREBrainstorming) apply this contract

PURECheck

Observational four-axis PURE viability check

References

Reference

Signature

  • Judge(Value)

Identity

Ref
Expansive#49a7
Sema ID
sema:Expansive#mh:SHA-256:49a7bf9576c5a3c81c4287bf5be190e00f99b3a7bab94608ff441da0dc8018b3
Ring
2
Tier
1
Updated
2026-11-11
Supersedes
  • sema:Expansive#mh:SHA-256:c3b714ddf5d18f2ff6ff15d126f71cf79bd78ac170e83608d6d8bacee45dae04
  • sema:Expansive#mh:SHA-256:f246ad1edf07204d7df21541b5a563da9bea6d04e5a7dbfdca2d008642253744
  • sema:Expansive#mh:SHA-256:a8c4748462be3574ee2162aed256e0827afbad28e635e352d1742da97ef2e98f