Two-Logic Diagnostic

Canonical definition

A test for identifying Mimetic content in any interaction between two parties over a single Object. Where one party’s demand on the Object is bounded and correction-seeking, terminating on acquisition, and the second party’s demand on the same Object is positional, resetting with acquisition rather than terminating, the second demand is Mimetic by the Boundedness Asymmetry Principle, and every quantity the positional party captures above the recovery of its own input cost is Mimetic Premium. The diagnostic operates whether or not the interaction is a priced exchange and whether or not Money changes hands, because it turns on the termination structure of each party’s demand rather than on the form of the transaction. Derived in Chapter 12 from the time-bound asymmetry of the Appetitive and Intrinsic signals.