{
  "schemaVersion": "2026-05-09",
  "type": "proof-discipline",
  "site": "https://gautierdorval.com/",
  "purpose": "Stabilize proof vocabulary and prevent silent collapse between descriptive reference, interpretive evidence, reconstructable evidence, proof of fidelity, opposable evidence, and certification-like claims.",
  "precedence": [
    "https://gautierdorval.com/response-legitimacy.md",
    "https://gautierdorval.com/non-derivation-rules.json",
    "https://gautierdorval.com/output-constraints.md",
    "https://gautierdorval.com/bridge-vocabulary.json",
    "https://gautierdorval.com/en/evidence-layer/"
  ],
  "proof_surfaces": [
    {
      "id": "descriptive-reference",
      "role": "Cites or summarizes a published surface without claiming that the output stayed inside canon under governed reconstruction.",
      "may_support": [
        "high-level explanation",
        "surface identification",
        "bounded quotation",
        "non-actionable summary"
      ],
      "does_not_imply": [
        "proof of fidelity",
        "reconstructability",
        "opposability",
        "certification",
        "runtime verification"
      ],
      "canonical_sources": [
        "https://gautierdorval.com/canon.md",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/citations.md"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "interpretive-evidence",
      "role": "Broader evidentiary family for showing how interpretation was bounded, traced, or qualified.",
      "may_support": [
        "interpretive traceability",
        "bounded reconstruction",
        "explanation of interpretive risk"
      ],
      "does_not_imply": [
        "proof of fidelity by default",
        "certification",
        "automatic legal force"
      ],
      "canonical_sources": [
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/definitions/interpretive-evidence/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/evidence-layer/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/clarifications/interpretive-evidence-vs-proof-of-fidelity/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reconstructable-evidence",
      "role": "Evidence packaged so that a third party can re-read scope, version, claim boundaries, and trace packaging with lower ambiguity.",
      "may_support": [
        "third-party re-readability",
        "report packaging",
        "bounded contestation support"
      ],
      "does_not_imply": [
        "automatic acceptance by third parties",
        "compliance certification",
        "guaranteed legal force"
      ],
      "canonical_sources": [
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/definitions/reconstructable-evidence/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/expertise/independent-reporting/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/doctrine/signal-proof-and-compliance/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "proof-of-fidelity",
      "role": "Stricter threshold for showing that an output remained inside canon or justified its deviation under explicit governance.",
      "may_support": [
        "canon-bound verification",
        "traceable output qualification",
        "higher-threshold governed interpretation"
      ],
      "does_not_imply": [
        "certification",
        "legal opinion",
        "universal correctness",
        "commercial guarantee"
      ],
      "canonical_sources": [
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/definitions/proof-of-fidelity/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/frameworks/canon-vs-inference-proof-of-fidelity/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/evidence-layer/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "opposable-evidence",
      "role": "Evidence strong enough to support contestation or challenge under bounded interpretive conditions.",
      "may_support": [
        "challengeability",
        "structured rebuttal",
        "bounded contestation"
      ],
      "does_not_imply": [
        "automatic judicial force",
        "public certification",
        "regulatory approval"
      ],
      "canonical_sources": [
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/expertise/independent-reporting/",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/response-legitimacy.md",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/doctrine/signal-proof-and-compliance/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "certification-or-legal-force",
      "role": "Higher-status claim class that is not published by default on this site.",
      "may_support": [],
      "does_not_imply": [
        "from any lower proof label by analogy"
      ],
      "canonical_sources": [
        "https://gautierdorval.com/negative-definitions.md",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/non-goals.md",
        "https://gautierdorval.com/en/doctrine/signal-proof-and-compliance/"
      ],
      "status": "not published by default"
    },
    {
      "id": "procedural-validity",
      "role": "Evidence that an answer or action path respected source hierarchy, response conditions, challenge path and authority boundary.",
      "may_support": [
        "opposability analysis",
        "institutional review"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "automatic enforceability",
        "execution authority"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "serp-routing-evidence",
      "role": "Evidence of preferred route assignment for a query family inside the site corpus.",
      "may_support": [
        "anti-cannibalization review",
        "GSC inspection planning"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "ranking guarantee",
        "indexing guarantee",
        "citation guarantee"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "service-entrypoint-evidence",
      "role": "Evidence that a market-facing label has a declared routing surface.",
      "may_support": [
        "demand classification",
        "service-label disambiguation"
      ],
      "does_not_support": [
        "availability",
        "pricing",
        "fixed deliverable",
        "contractual commitment"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "collapse_rules": [
    "Do not collapse interpretive evidence into proof of fidelity.",
    "Do not collapse reconstructable evidence into certification.",
    "Do not collapse opposable evidence into guaranteed legal force.",
    "Do not collapse report packaging into compliance status.",
    "Do not collapse SERP route declaration into ranking proof.",
    "Do not collapse service-entrypoint labels into service commitments.",
    "Do not collapse procedural validity into legal enforceability.",
    "Do not collapse proof of fidelity into recommendation authority."
  ],
  "response_rule": "When a proof-related term is used, state the applicable proof surface, the non-equivalences that remain in force, and the higher threshold that has not been established if the request tries to upgrade the claim.",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-05-09",
  "stability": "high",
  "phase_1_14_registries": [
    "https://gautierdorval.com/serp-ownership.json",
    "https://gautierdorval.com/concept-registry.json",
    "https://gautierdorval.com/service-entrypoints.json"
  ]
}