AIM Framework glossary
Empirical Acceptance Principle
Canonical definition
The methodological commitment that AIM accepts the empirical findings of existing behavioural sciences (including economics, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, political science, and law) as valid evidence requiring explanation rather than correction. AIM’s contribution is a new explanatory architecture (the three-source motivational structure, its integration mechanism, and the concealment architecture), not new data or the rejection of existing data.
Explanation
AIM doesn’t say the experiments were wrong. The data from every field studying human behaviour stands. What AIM says is that those findings are all outputs of a single motivational architecture that no one had identified, so the explanations attached to those findings need updating, even though the findings themselves don’t. Canonical reference: Chapter 5, Appendix 5C (The Consilience Frame). Related terms: Methodological Reassessment Requirement, Non-Displacement Principle, Undifferentiated Desire Fallacy, Camouflage Architecture.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle.