schema_version: "1.1"
record_set: "Metaphysical Technology public claim register"
version: "1.0.0"
last_reviewed: "2026-07-23"
status_vocabulary:
  - Question
  - Observation
  - Reported Observation
  - Verified Observation
  - Hypothesis
  - Working Model
  - Supported Model
  - Established Finding
  - Category Standard
claims:
  - id: MT-CLM-001
    claim: "Metaphysical Technology is an emerging category of designed technologies, environments, methods, and frameworks that deliberately engage questions, experiences, or relationships traditionally treated as metaphysical and bring them into operational, observable, testable, or governed form."
    knowledge_status: "Category Standard"
    authority: "Published category definition"
    evidence_function: "Defines the object of inquiry; does not report an empirical finding."
    confidence: "Not applicable to a declared definition"
    sources:
      - "CATEGORY.md"
      - "articles/07_What_Is_Metaphysical_Technology.md"
    limitations:
      - "Does not establish that metaphysical explanations are scientifically true."
      - "Does not establish broad academic, scientific, industrial, or public adoption."
    counterevidence: []
    review_trigger: "Definition challenge, material boundary conflict, or public version change."

  - id: MT-CLM-002
    claim: "Category membership requires intentional design, material engagement with a metaphysical question, experience, or relationship, and operational, observable, testable, or governed form."
    knowledge_status: "Category Standard"
    authority: "Published classification criteria"
    evidence_function: "Supplies the category classification rule."
    confidence: "Not applicable to a declared classification rule"
    sources:
      - "CATEGORY.md"
      - "articles/07_What_Is_Metaphysical_Technology.md"
    limitations:
      - "Passing the test creates eligibility for documented review, not automatic inclusion."
      - "Membership does not establish efficacy, safety, ethics, value, or truth."
    counterevidence: []
    review_trigger: "A classification exposes ambiguity or the public criteria change."

  - id: MT-CLM-003
    claim: "The category definition does not assert that metaphysical explanations have been scientifically established."
    knowledge_status: "Category Standard"
    authority: "Published evidence boundary"
    evidence_function: "Limits the inference permitted from the definition."
    confidence: "Not applicable to a declared evidence boundary"
    sources:
      - "CATEGORY.md"
      - "FAQ.md"
    limitations:
      - "Individual scientific propositions must be assessed under their own evidence."
    counterevidence: []
    review_trigger: "Any repository language implies scientific establishment from category membership."

  - id: MT-CLM-004
    claim: "A participant report can establish what the participant reported, but does not alone establish the cause, mechanism, ontology, or universal meaning of the experience."
    knowledge_status: "Category Standard"
    authority: "Published evidence rule"
    evidence_function: "Defines the permitted inference from reported experience."
    confidence: "Not applicable to a declared evidence rule"
    sources:
      - "EVIDENCE.md"
      - "articles/02_The_Device_Can_Measure_a_Signal_It_Cannot_Tell_You_What_the_Signal_Means.md"
      - "articles/07_What_Is_Metaphysical_Technology.md"
    limitations:
      - "A report may contribute to a larger evidentiary record."
    counterevidence: []
    review_trigger: "A publication collapses report into external fact."

  - id: MT-CLM-005
    claim: "A sensor measurement can establish a bounded measurement under declared conditions, but does not alone establish the meaning or metaphysical explanation of that measurement."
    knowledge_status: "Category Standard"
    authority: "Published evidence rule"
    evidence_function: "Defines the permitted inference from measurement."
    confidence: "Not applicable to a declared evidence rule"
    sources:
      - "EVIDENCE.md"
      - "articles/02_The_Device_Can_Measure_a_Signal_It_Cannot_Tell_You_What_the_Signal_Means.md"
    limitations:
      - "Instrument validity, uncertainty, preprocessing, context, and model performance remain claim-specific."
    counterevidence: []
    review_trigger: "A publication represents interpretation as direct detection."

  - id: MT-CLM-006
    claim: "The current public record does not establish broad academic, scientific, industrial, or public adoption of Metaphysical Technology."
    knowledge_status: "Working Model"
    authority: "Current public repository scope assessment"
    evidence_function: "States the limit of the available public record."
    confidence: "Moderate"
    sources:
      - "CATEGORY.md"
      - "FAQ.md"
      - "articles/07_What_Is_Metaphysical_Technology.md"
    limitations:
      - "This is not a systematic adoption study."
      - "Independent uses may exist outside the inspected record."
    counterevidence: []
    review_trigger: "Independent citations, institutions, publications, classifications, or adoption evidence are documented."