Certainty Meta-Audit Protocol

Domain: Meta-Frameworks

Subdomain: Metaphilosophical Audit / Certainty

Version: v1.0

Version-Lock: SNP v15.0 / MNM v14.6 / August 24, 2025 | SID#1025-AK5B

Abstract

The Certainty Meta-Audit Protocol establishes systematic triage, documentation, adversarial review, and recursive audit for claims of absolute conviction, foundational beliefs, and final epistemic closure. It protects SE’s philosophical infrastructure by excluding foundational axioms from unnecessary audit, while rigorously testing novel certainty claims with operational and conceptual impact. Permanent status is conferred only through supermajority adversarial exhaustion and documented justification. Anchored to the Faith & Meaning Meta-Audit Protocol, Mapping SI Paradigms from Hype to Spectrum, and the Plural Safeguards Protocol.

0. Triage: Encounter Filter

Step 0: Triage

A claim of certainty must be categorized before protocol activation:

• a) Foundational Axiom: Already formally acknowledged as “Constitutionally Certain” and required by the SE system (e.g., laws of basic logic, mathematical truths). These are logged with rationale and excluded from meta-audit except in cases of system revision.

• b) Novel Certainty Claim: Any new claim outside accepted foundations or system fiats. Only these qualify for full Certainty Meta-Audit scrutiny.

1. Scope & Purpose

• Applies to novel claims of absolute conviction, final epistemic closure, or necessity, with potential operational or philosophical consequences for SE.

• Distinguishes between:

  • Temporary Limits: Resulting from current paradigmatic gaps, addressable through evolving analysis.

  • Permanent Limits: Claims only admitted after supermajority adversarial exhaustion and justification, with system-wide implications.

2. Refined Trigger & Logging

Trigger:

Activate when a novel certainty claim:

• Is not already a foundational axiom,

• Has resisted resolution through standard analytic protocols,

• Holds substantial significance for SE’s epistemic, operational, or philosophical architecture.

Boundary Log:

• Documents claimants, analytic decision path, dissent, triage rationale, adversarial submissions, and status—flagged temporary or permanent.

• All logs are version-locked and hyperlink-accessible.

3. Plural Witnessing & Adversarial Review

• Witnessing:

  • Two plural witnesses (subject, facilitator) and minimum two adversarial reviewers.

  • Cultural/minority claims must invoke the Plural Safeguards Protocol.

• Adversarial Mandate:

  • Reviewers propose and exhaust all plausible analytic or paradigm-shift strategies.

  • Permanent status conferred only if a supermajority (⅔ or ¾) adversarial reviewers agree further dissolutions are implausible and all reasonable counterarguments are refuted.

  • The burden of proof lies with claimants to demonstrate necessity and system utility.

4. Supermajority Exhaustion & Permanent Status Criteria

• Permanent Status:

  • Conferred when supermajority adversarial reviewers document rigorous exhaustion of plausible counter-strategies,

  • A comprehensive argument for necessity is archived and meets pre-defined standards of philosophical, scientific, or system-level relevance,

  • If any credible dissent remains, status is provisional and subject to review.

5. Recursive Audit Cycle

• Five-Year Review (or upon paradigm shift):

  • All permanent and provisional claims undergo scheduled audit.

  • Are new analytic or conceptual tools available?

  • Has cultural, minority, or system context shifted?

  • Are all adversarial, plural, and claimant logs accessible?

6. Migration & Integrity Safeguards

• Migration:

  • Boundaries can migrate to or from protocols (Faith & Meaning, Mapping SI Paradigms from Hype to Spectrum) following supermajority consent and full adversarial review.

  • Logs are permanently linked and rationale archived to prevent analytic evasion, dogmatic closure, or premature migration.

7. Pushback Mechanisms

• No claim—unless Constitutionally Certain (system axiom)—is exempt from adversarial and plural scrutiny.

• Closure is refused if any adversarial reviewer produces credible grounds for ongoing challenge.

• The system’s foundational axioms are only reviewed under explicit revision protocols.

8. Protocol Anchors

• Faith & Meaning Meta-Audit Protocol

• Mapping SI Paradigms from Hype to Spectrum

• Plural Safeguards Protocol

Appendices

Appendix A: Triage Decision Table

Claim Type	Action	Logged Outcome
Foundational Axiom (e.g., logic, math)	Log as Constitutionally Certain; excluded from full audit	Rationale, system fiat, links
Novel Certainty Claim	Meta-audit initiated	Full boundary log, triage, adversarial review

Appendix B: Supermajority Adversarial Review Template

• Proposed challenge strategies (analytic, plural, paradigm-shift)

• Adversarial reviewer votes (e.g., 3 of 4 agree exhaustion)

• Claimant’s burden of necessity argument

• Consensus status and next scheduled review

Appendix C: Sample Boundary Log

Date	Claimant	Certainty Claim	Triage Result	Adversarial Review	Status	Next Review	Migration Dest.
2025-08-24	Dr. R. Yarrow	"Quantum gravity cannot be reconciled with classical logic."	Meta-audit initiated	3/4 agree exhausted	Permanent	2030-08-24	Mapping SI Paradigms
2025-08-24	SE System	"Law of Non-Contradiction applies."	Constitutionally Certain	System fiat, excluded	N/A	On revision	n/a

Appendix D: Plural Safeguard Invocation

• All claims originating in minority, foundational, or cultural epistemology are processed with trauma-sensitive logging and enhanced review per Plural Safeguards Protocol.

Version-Lock Statement

All logs, migrations, adversarial reviews, and plural testimony are bound to version SNP v15.0 and MNM v14.6, August 24, 2025. Certainty claims achieve permanent status only after supermajority adversarial exhaustion and rigorous necessity argumentation. Constitutionally Certain axioms are logged, but excluded from operational meta-audit except during scheduled system revision.