B.5.2:5 - Archetypal Grounding

Tell. Abduction is not “a flash of insight.” It is the governed passage from a typed prompt to a candidate conjecture through explicit rival generation and plausibility comparison.

Show (System). An operations team sees a recurring latency spike that existing explanations do not cover. They publish an AnomalyStatement, compare rival causes against current telemetry and mechanism knowledge, and retain a qualified prime conjecture. They name a possible discriminating probe without assigning a maturity level or committing the service team to an experiment.

Show (Episteme). A research group notices that two accepted results no longer fit together under one framing. It publishes a ProbeCuePrompt, enumerates several rival explanatory reframings, rejects the ones that fail scope fit or would not generate decisive probes, and advances one candidate explanation as the next working hypothesis.