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Stratification Engine

A stratum is an enclosure built under duress. Before any success story, classify plateau, absorption, fragmentation, collapse, parasitism, and metastable closure.

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The graveyard comes first

Most resolutions of a coordination crisis are not stratification. Size, aggregation, and densification do not install a new enforcement architecture.

Eukaryogenesis and institutional cases are not scored. Every outcome is a teaching classification, not a scientific adjudication.

The instrument is bound to Chapter 7's ontological signature and non-stratification taxonomy through immutable source anchors.

Text-only stratification engine

Catalogue non-stratification first.

The qualitative model varies interior constraint, second-order closure, and coordination crisis. Most resolutions are not stratification.

  1. Plateau: complication without enclosure. (plateau)
  2. Absorption: the crisis is soaked back into the incumbent regime. (absorption)
  3. Fragmentation: coordination splits rather than folding. (fragmentation)
  4. Collapse: the crisis destroys the regime instead of installing an inside. (collapse)
  5. Parasitic exploitation: a second-order apparatus feeds without constituting. (parasitic exploitation)
  6. Metastable closure: an enclosure is sketched without a load-bearing crisis. (metastable closure)
  7. Genuine stratum: second-order closure is load-bearing and incomplete. (genuine stratum)

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Four faces of second-order closure

Breakdown signature, intervention coupling, dependency, and unity are faces of one structural achievement, not a post-hoc checklist.

Non-stratification taxonomy

Plateau, absorption, fragmentation, collapse, parasitic exploitation, and metastable closures are the dominant outcomes at every scale.

Every closure is incomplete

A genuine stratum remains an invoice. The enclosure that solves this crisis generates the crowding for the next.

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