AIM Framework glossary
Object-Source Non-Identity Principle
Canonical definition
The Object-Source Non-Identity Principle is the principle that no Object possesses a fixed source-composition. The proportion of an Object's integrated value attributable to A-function, I-function, and Mimetic Premium is determined by the Decision Hub's integration conditions at the moment of valuation, which are themselves governed by four contextual variables: scarcity (driving PM-visible through rivalry potential), observability (driving PM-visible and PM-ownership through public-display capacity), Model Salience (driving PM through the prestige cues operating in the cultural context), and A-baseline technology (driving the cost-to-A-adequacy ratio that determines what proportion of price is attributable to A-function). Objects therefore migrate across the necessity-luxury partition as these conditions change, in either direction, with the same physical Object capable of being PM-saturated in one historical or cultural context and A-I-dominant in another. The Object-Source Non-Identity Principle entails the Contextual Migration Corollary: orthodox economic analysis that treats Object categories as stable carriers of motivational source will systematically misread historical and cross-cultural variation as "preference change" or "supply change," when the actual phenomenon is source-composition migration the analytical framework cannot represent.
Explanation
The same physical thing can be a luxury in one century and a necessity in the next, and orthodox economics has no way to represent what is happening because it tries to read source from Object. Pineapples were once so expensive that the wealthy rented them for table display without eating them (pure PM-visible, with A and I bypassed entirely), and now they are a few dollars at the supermarket where A-function and I-function dominate (the same physical fruit). Hand-thrown pottery used to be unremarkable A-Objects and is now PM-saturated artisan goods. The pattern goes both ways: when industrial production saturates the A-function of an Object class, residual non-industrial production picks up PM, and when scarcity collapses, PM decays. What an Object "is" in source terms depends on what is happening at the Decision Hub of the person valuing it, which depends on scarcity, observability, who the prestige models are, and what the production technology can do. None of this is a property of the Object itself.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle. Derived from Axiom 2 (Common-Currency Integration), Axiom 5 (M as Amplifier with Object Parasitism), and the Mimetic Premium Asymmetry Principle.