A.11:4 - Bias-Annotation

A.11 corrects kind-inflation bias. A useful word, field name, record label, or diagram element can start behaving like a universal kind because it appears often, feels important, or has prestige in a source tradition. The repair is ontological: recover the governed object and try the best existing governed expression before admitting a new durable value.

It also corrects false-parsimony bias. A compact ontology is not achieved by refusing every new value. If composition hides a reviewable distinction or blocks an action-facing claim, a positive parsimony finding supports continuing the candidate’s admission test and states its boundary, overlap, and reopen condition.