AIM Framework glossary
Constitutive Narration
Canonical definition
The output of the narrative-closure process (the Confabulation architecture, Axiom 4) when it operates on identity-Content, a domain where no mind-independent Referent exists. Constitutive Narration is neither true nor false because there is nothing for it to be true or false about; it constructs the identity it appears to describe. Distinguished from Confabulation, which is the output of the same process operating on source-attribution, a domain where a Referent exists (the actual motivational source) and the narrative is demonstrably wrong about it. The mechanism is one; the epistemic status of the output differs because the domain differs.
Explanation
When your brain fills in the blank about why you want something (was it genuine interest or social pressure?), it gets the answer wrong, because the answer cannot be read from the feeling and your mind had no slot for social copying. That is Confabulation: wrong about something real. When your brain fills in the blank about who you are ("I am a generous person," "I value honesty"), it is building the thing, not describing it. There is no pre-existing "true self" that the narrative missed. That is Constitutive Narration: neither true nor false, because the narrative IS the self. Same brain process, different kind of gap being filled.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct (derived from Axiom 4 operating on Referent-absent domain; Chapter 15, Section 15.6).