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{"id":"SCALAR-MEASUREMENT","label":"Measurement","aliases":["comparison act"],"frame":"instrument-mediated observation","detector_limit":"Only relationships coupled to the apparatus and recording method survive","development_hook":"Re-review when instrument, resolution, calibration, or comparison method changes"},
{"id":"SCALAR-RECURRENCE","label":"Recurrence","aliases":["conditional return","structural repetition"],"frame":"antecedent-dependent patterning","detector_limit":"Repeated notation may conceal non-identical histories","development_hook":"Branch recursion, resonance, periodicity, and recurrence until tests distinguish them"},
{"id":"SCALAR-DETECTOR","label":"Detector","aliases":["measurement substrate"],"frame":"matter-based selection surface","detector_limit":"The detector cannot directly report relations to which it does not couple","development_hook":"Compare dissimilar detector substrates before generalizing"},
{"id":"SCALAR-FRAME","label":"Frame","aliases":["reference frame","descriptive perspective"],"frame":"bounded coordinate or interpretive system","detector_limit":"A stable result may depend on an unexamined frame","development_hook":"Shake or translate the frame after detection"},
{"id":"SCALAR-INFORMATION","label":"Information","aliases":["retained distinction"],"frame":"emergent description","detector_limit":"Compression discards relations that may remain physically consequential","development_hook":"Record retained and discarded relationships"},
{"id":"SCALAR-AGENCY","label":"Agency","aliases":["intervention capacity"],"frame":"available alteration path","detector_limit":"Observed choice may be a collapsed representation of constraints","development_hook":"Require consequence, reversibility, and displaced-effect accounting"},
{"id":"SCALAR-IDENTITY","label":"Identity","aliases":["continuity","persistence"],"frame":"recognized continuity through change","detector_limit":"Naming may group divergent processes as one object","development_hook":"Test boundaries under transformation and information loss"},
{"id":"SCALAR-CONSERVATION","label":"Conservation","aliases":["relational accounting"],"frame":"bounded transfer accounting","detector_limit":"Apparent loss may be transfer outside the selected dimensions","development_hook":"Search for displaced accounting without assuming an unseen reservoir"}]}