Principlev1
When two schemas conflict, search for their common
When two schemas conflict, search for their common ancestor—the deeper value or goal both serve—to determine the appropriate routing rule rather than selecting a winner.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounds in Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge by specifying relationships) and Values exist in a hierarchical structure with terminal (values exist hierarchically with ends and means). The three-way merge protocol is a derived principle for resolving schema conflicts by finding hierarchical structure. It's prescriptive (tells you what to do), general (applies to any schema conflict), and distinct from the axioms (which describe structure but not resolution method).