AIM Framework glossary
Aesthetic Carriage Principle
Canonical definition
The principle that content carried in an aesthetic form is credited with the valuation the form earns, and that the Individual cannot read from that valuation which part the form supplied. The crediting falls on the Observer's contribution, which reaches the Thinker only within the Scalar and leaves no phenomenology to examine. The integrated Scalar reaches the Thinker without its source decomposition. Where ground-resolution attributes the valuation to the work's content, the value of the form is committed to the Belief Register as support for the content. The content keeps its Referent; the form supplies certainty without contact.
Explanation
A beautiful poster makes its message feel truer, and from the inside you cannot tell how much of the conviction came from the beauty. The message is no more tested than it was before.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle.