Core Diagnostic Grammar

These essays define the analytic language of the project.

• Stopping Rules
Defines negative design systems: analytical frameworks whose primary function is to specify structural impossibility and terminate feasible action rather than recommend solutions.

• Anomics — A Summary
A concise overview of Anomics as a diagnostic discipline and the structural condition it analyzes.

• Anomics as Negative Design Science
Why Anomics specifies limits and failure modes rather than proposing reforms or solutions.

• Anomie: Why It Keeps Failing
Why norms persist symbolically even as they lose the power to bind outcomes and settle disputes.