AIM Framework glossary
Provenance Rule
Canonical definition
The procedural rule that evidence received from another Individual is to be held below certainty until the provenance of the Belief can be traced back to a source presenting a replicable test against physical reality, and that test has been run by the receiving Individual or by a community of independent testers whose replication is genuine rather than social. *
Explanation
If you cannot trace where a Belief comes from to a test that anyone can re-run against reality, you should not feel certain about it, no matter how many people around you believe it. Canonical derivation: Chapter 14 (Quantum Epistemology), Section 14.10. The Provenance Rule as stated is the negative limb: doubt Beliefs of untraced provenance. A second limb follows from Referent Abandonment (Section 14.8.3.2). Where a decohered Referent is available (a determinate fact of traced provenance that has returned a settled verdict) the Referent takes strict priority. A Belief maintained against it is not merely uncertain; it is a Confabulation, and the eliminative proof of Referent Abandonment establishes that its maintenance is necessarily mimetically driven. The two limbs close the epistemic loop: the negative limb instructs caution toward the endogenous; the positive limb instructs deference to the decohered.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.
Derivation
Chapter 14, Section 14.10.1; Chapter 14, Section 14.10.2; Chapter 14, Section 14.10.6; Chapter 14, Section 14.8.3.2; Chapter 14, Section 14.8.5.
Related terms
- Referent Abandonment
- Referent Primacy Principle
- Coupling Strength
- Decoherence Time
- Epistemic Suspension
- Confabulation
- Source Opacity
- Endogenous-Evidence Condition
- Provenance-Signal Design Result
- Induced-Decoherence Test
- Two-Question Diagnostic
- Rule–Referent Principle
- Contactless Updating
- Provenance Maintenance Principle