AIM Framework glossary
Non-Displacement Principle
Canonical definition
The structural claim that AIM, as a unifying theory, does not seek to displace any individual theory within the disciplines it touches. Self-Determination Theory is incorporated as the I-component, Girard’s mimetic theory as the M-component, and Cannon’s homeostatic model as the A-component. What AIM displaces is not any particular theory but the undifferentiated framework within which those theories have been siloed, the implicit assumption that motivation is a single kind of thing, studied adequately by any one discipline in isolation. Canonical reference: Chapter 5, Appendix 5C (The Consilience Frame).
Explanation
AIM doesn’t replace the theories it draws on, it houses them. Deci and Ryan got Intrinsic Motivation right. Girard got Mimetic Desire right. Cannon got Appetites right. What was missing wasn’t any single piece but the architecture that shows how the pieces fit together and why no single discipline could see the whole picture on its own. Related terms: Empirical Acceptance Principle, Methodological Reassessment Requirement, Three-Source Taxonomy, Undifferentiated Desire Fallacy, Foundational-Entailment Distinction (FED).
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle.