AIM Framework glossary
Mutual Architectural Correction Principle
Canonical definition
The Mutual Architectural Correction Principle is the methodological principle that every human behavioural science holds, and extends to every other, equal permission to (a) accept the empirical findings of all neighbouring disciplines as valid evidence requiring explanation, and (b) flag the architectures those findings were originally packaged within for reassessment in light of its own empirical record. No discipline stands as binding architectural prior on any other. No discipline exempts its own architecture from the reassessment it proposes for others. Permission is uniform and reciprocal across the field. The Mutual Architectural Correction Principle is required by the Output-Capacity Entailment Principle (OCEP), which requires that any unifying theory be derivable both from cause to effect and from effect to cause; a field organised so that architectural correction runs only in one direction fails OCEP's bidirectionality requirement. The Mutual Architectural Correction Principle is the universal form of symmetric consilience applied uniformly across the human behavioural sciences.
Explanation
When human behavioural sciences relate to each other, they can operate in one of two ways. The first is a hierarchy, where some disciplines are treated as foundational (their architectures constrain everyone else) and others are treated as dependent (their architectures are constrained from above or below). The second is a field of peers, where every discipline is beside every other, and each extends to every other the same permission it claims for itself: to accept findings, to flag architectures for reassessment, and to be subject to the same reassessment in return. The Mutual Architectural Correction Principle is the second arrangement stated as a methodological rule. It is the disposition that dissolves the Disciplinary Priors layer of the Camouflage Architecture, because the priors interlock only so long as no discipline claims the authority to question its neighbours' priors while extending reciprocal authority to its neighbours to question its own.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle.