PURE

Mechanism

The framework that defines how the four general viability components — Parsimony, Novelty, Realizable, Expansive — compose into a viability evaluation. PURE specifies the usage contract shared by every PURE instance: (1) the four dimensions are orthogonal — they must be evaluated without sight of each other, because in a single context the faculties corrupt each other (an expansive vision dampens ruthlessness about uniqueness, a feasible plan inflates its own transferability); (2) the evaluation is non-compensatory — no axis can offset another's failure, and overall viability passes only when every axis independently meets its declared criterion; (3) **variable depth is definitional**: a PURE instance is a five-second screen or a week-long investigation with hundreds of sub-solvers — the same framework at different depths. Each component is itself a decomposition point (a solver specializing in parsimony might deploy sub-solvers attempting competing compressions; one specializing in expansiveness might fan out across hostile transfer domains), and how deeply each axis is evaluated is purely economic. The four component patterns (Parsimony, Novelty, Realizable, Expansive) are the general concepts; PURE is the framework that declares how those generals are wired together when the question being asked is viability. Applications such as PURECheck, PUREOptimization, and PUREBrainstorming apply this framework while choosing their own evaluation depth and downstream policy.