Feature C — The Witnesses (Draft)
Faces C0–C3: how independent evidence combines. The single witness, weighed but never decisive; the sum of independent witnesses, accumulating; the limit, where universal agreement implies an objective fact; and the worst-case, where a claim is tested against its strongest opposition.
“In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.” — 2 Corinthians 13:1
The third object is the aggregation rule — how separate pieces of evidence combine into warrant. Its faces are the operations of one algebra: a single observation contributes a bounded, never-decisive increment; independent observations add, so convergence accumulates; the limit of that addition turns universal agreement into objectivity; and the same evaluation, taken at its worst case against the strongest opposition, is the steelman. One witness, many, all, and the adversary — the four ways evidence is combined.
The Faces
Face C0 — Personal Experience as Testimony Personal experience is evidence. It is not proof.
Face C1 — Convergence of Independent Witnesses Independent convergence accumulates.
Face C2 — Universal Subjective Convergence Implies Objectivity When everyone who has ever looked confirms the same inner experience, that is the strongest available grounds for inferring an objective fact.
Face C3 — The Steelman Is the Test Steelman first. Test what survives.
Formal Statement (Concordius Framework)
The object is the evidence-aggregation operator on the conditioned measure {τ(C | aᵢ)}. Its faces are the canonical reductions: C0 the single term (a bounded log-likelihood increment, 0 < |Δℓ| < ∞); C1 the sum over independent witnesses (coherent signal ∝ n against incoherent noise ∝ √n, SNR ∝ √n); C2 the n → ∞, zero-exception limit (universal invariance = objectivity); and C3 the infimum (worst-case warrant, ρ(C) = inf over the strongest opposition). The corpus’s own messenger-invariant recovery — the source as the convergent core across independent channels — is C1 (see Appendix D).
Tier: derivation for C0/C1/C2; criterion for C3 (the admissible-opposition set is interpretive).
Begin with Face C0 — Personal Experience as Testimony →