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R0050/2026-03-31/Q002/H2

Statement

No examined discipline contributes genuinely novel concepts not already captured by the nine baseline frameworks.

Status

Current: Eliminated

Legal evidence law's admissibility gating, privilege doctrines, and adversarial testing requirements have no clear analogue in any of the nine frameworks. These are genuinely novel concepts arising from law's distinctive operating constraint: procedural fairness that deliberately limits truth-seeking.

Supporting Evidence

Evidence Summary
SRC04-E01 Bradford Hill criteria are largely subsumed by GRADE and IPCC
SRC06-E01 OCEBM is a precursor to GRADE's evidence hierarchy
SRC08-E01 SIFT and CRAAP are simplified versions of existing concepts

Contradicting Evidence

Evidence Summary
SRC02-E01 Legal admissibility, privilege, and adversarial testing are genuinely novel
SRC05-E01 FMEA's three-axis quantitative risk scoring has no direct analogue
SRC07-E01 Internal/external criticism distinction formalizes authentication separately from evaluation

Reasoning

H2 is eliminated because at least legal evidence law contributes concepts with no analogue in the nine frameworks. The concept that evidence can be logically relevant yet procedurally inadmissible, or that truth-seeking should be deliberately constrained by fairness principles, is absent from all nine scientific and intelligence frameworks.

Relationship to Other Hypotheses

H2 represents the researcher's completeness bias — the desire to find the nine frameworks sufficient. The evidence does not support this position.

ACH Consistency

Rating Count
Consistent 3
Inconsistent 3
N/A 2