Principlev1PR-671
When two claims about a system conflict, check whether each…
When two claims about a system conflict, check whether each describes a different level of abstraction before attempting to resolve or choose between them.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Patterns Exist in Hierarchical Logical Levels (patterns exist in hierarchical levels forming causal chains) and Abstraction Necessarily Discards Information (abstraction discards information). This prescribes the diagnostic protocol for level disambiguation—checking abstraction levels follows from the axiom that multi-level systems generate different truths at different levels.