{"title":"Writing from First Principles","version":"1.0.0","core_equation":"writing_quality = decoded_intent_accuracy × reader_usability × contextual_fitness × trust","zero_rule":"A text succeeds only when the intended reader can recover the intended meaning and use it for the intended purpose in the actual context.","conservation_rules":[{"id":"FP-01","rule":"Changing form without checking meaning risks semantic drift."},{"id":"FP-02","rule":"Every added unit must contribute meaning, relation, navigation, rhythm, credibility, or deliberate effect."},{"id":"FP-03","rule":"Omission is safe only when the reader can infer the missing element accurately."},{"id":"FP-04","rule":"A local improvement is rejected when it damages document-level accuracy, voice, cohesion, accessibility, or intent."},{"id":"FP-05","rule":"Correctness constrains style; context selects among the remaining correct forms."},{"id":"FP-06","rule":"Rules have domains. A rule for instructions is not automatically a rule for dialogue, poetry, contracts, or advertising."},{"id":"FP-07","rule":"Reader effort is a limited resource. Spend it on the idea, not preventable decoding work."},{"id":"FP-08","rule":"Specific claims create evidence debt; stronger claims create larger evidence debt."},{"id":"FP-09","rule":"Revision should apply the smallest sufficient intervention that fixes the diagnosed failure."},{"id":"FP-10","rule":"A deliberate deviation names its purpose, audience benefit, scope, and recovery path."}],"primitives":[{"level":0,"id":"signal","formula":"form + contrast","job":"Create a perceivable difference.","failure":"The reader cannot detect a meaningful distinction."},{"level":1,"id":"grapheme","formula":"mark + writing-system value","job":"Represent a letter, digit, symbol, or punctuation mark.","failure":"The mark is missing, confusable, or malformed."},{"level":2,"id":"morpheme","formula":"form + minimal meaning_or_function","job":"Carry the smallest grammatical or lexical contribution.","failure":"Inflection or word formation expresses the wrong relationship."},{"level":3,"id":"word","formula":"one_or_more_morphemes + lexical_role","job":"Name, relate, modify, quantify, or operate.","failure":"The selected word is inaccurate, ambiguous, inaccessible, or inconsistent."},{"level":4,"id":"phrase","formula":"head + optional_dependents","job":"Build a unit around a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or preposition.","failure":"The head-dependent relationship is unclear or misplaced."},{"level":5,"id":"clause","formula":"predicate + participants + optional_circumstances","job":"Represent an event, state, relation, or proposition.","failure":"The actor, action, object, time, condition, or logical status is missing or confused."},{"level":6,"id":"sentence","formula":"one_or_more_clauses + relation + closure","job":"Deliver one manageable assertion, question, command, or exclamation.","failure":"The sentence is incomplete, fused, overloaded, or logically misjoined."},{"level":7,"id":"paragraph","formula":"controlling_move + development + coherence","job":"Advance one main rhetorical move.","failure":"The point is buried, unsupported, mixed with another point, or disconnected."},{"level":8,"id":"section","formula":"reader_question + organized_answer + navigation","job":"Resolve one meaningful reader need or document function.","failure":"The section has no clear question, sequence, or usable label."},{"level":9,"id":"document","formula":"purpose + audience + ordered_sections + evidence + action_path","job":"Change what a reader knows, feels, decides, or does.","failure":"The document is correct locally but fails its audience or purpose globally."},{"level":10,"id":"content_system","formula":"documents + taxonomy + reuse + governance + feedback","job":"Produce consistent, maintainable communication across contexts.","failure":"Rules conflict, drift accumulates, content duplicates, or feedback never changes the system."}],"universal_operations":[{"id":"select","question":"Which signal best expresses the intended meaning?"},{"id":"combine","question":"Which units belong together?"},{"id":"order","question":"What must the reader encounter first, next, and last?"},{"id":"connect","question":"What relationship joins these units?"},{"id":"delimit","question":"Where does one unit end and another begin?"},{"id":"specify","question":"What detail reduces ambiguity or increases usefulness?"},{"id":"compress","question":"What can be removed without losing necessary meaning?"},{"id":"expand","question":"What must be explained, evidenced, illustrated, or qualified?"},{"id":"emphasize","question":"What deserves attention, stress, position, or repetition?"},{"id":"vary","question":"What controlled change improves rhythm, engagement, or fit?"},{"id":"verify","question":"How will accuracy, comprehension, and outcome be tested?"},{"id":"route","question":"What should the reader do or read next?"}],"composition_formulas":{"narrative":"agent + desire + obstacle + consequential_choice + change + meaning","argument":"claim + grounds + warrant + qualification + counterposition + response","explanation":"question + known_base + model + example + boundary + check","instruction":"goal + prerequisites + ordered_actions + expected_results + recovery + verification","reference":"entity + definition + properties + constraints + examples + links","persuasive_copy":"audience_desire + problem_or_opportunity + offer + mechanism + proof + objection_resolution + action_minus_friction","paragraph":"controlling_move + support + relationship_signals + transition_or_closure","document":"rhetorical_situation + information_architecture + usable_units + evidence + next_action"},"source_ids":["WEB-001","WEB-002","WEB-008","WEB-009","WEB-010","BK-008","BK-013","BK-024"]}