Rearticulation Without Ontological Separation: Claim\-Safe Continuity Under Changing Representations, Meanings, and Provenance

Abstract

We study a reconstruction problem in which not only represented content but the representational scheme, relevance structure, and semantic resolution may change. The framework treats counting as articulation-relative, distinguishes missing articulation from negation, uses proof-relevant bridges for continuity across semantic revision, and separates conservative continuation, semantic revision, and model-relative positive generativity. Main formal results ● Claim factorization and partial-claim factorization criteria ● No universal nontrivial claim-safe compression ● Higher-order coarticulation / lower-order projection insufficiency ● Claim-relative proof relevance ● Semantic revision without monotone refinement ● Revision-reserve sufficiency ● Rearticulation Soundness and Status Independence ● Multiary Joint-Claim Soundness Novelty positioning Local mathematical ingredients have substantial established precedents. The claimed contribution is evaluated at three levels: local results, structural/regional combinations, and the global explanatory architecture. The current audit supports a provisional structural novelty claim; absolute historical priority language is intentionally avoided pending any final repository-level priority check.