Type: Protocol Reference
Editorial status: Working
Epistemic status: Operational
Evidence scope: UnPeeragogy + CIP-KGE methodological synthesis
Last reviewed: 2026-09-16 — AI-assisted editorial check
Human reviewed: Human content-review pending for this revision
Pyragogy uses different words for different epistemic objects because collapsing them creates false certainty.
What an existing theory, pattern, paper, handbook, transcript, or document says.
A source can contain evidence, interpretation, speculation, or error.
Being a source does not make a statement true.
A description of what was directly reported or recorded.
Observation should remain as close as practical to the original event.
A concrete episode with enough structure to examine:
Critical incidents are more useful than general impressions because they can be interrogated.
What a researcher thinks the observation or incident means.
Interpretation must remain visibly separate from the underlying evidence.
A tentative explanation that can be tested against additional cases.
A hypothesis is allowed to be useful before it is established.
It is not allowed to hide its provisional status.
A describable way in which a system, pattern, or collaborative process degrades or produces an outcome contrary to its intention.
Failure modes should always carry conditions.
Evidence that places pressure on an existing interpretation.
Counterevidence does not automatically falsify the claim.
It may narrow it, qualify it, expose a missing condition, or reveal an alternative explanation.
Independent evidence that supports the same interpretation or mechanism.
Repeated agreement inside one interview is not the same thing as independent corroboration.
A change made after evidence and interpretation have been reviewed.
The previous state should remain recoverable.
Knowledge should be revisable without erasing the path by which it changed.
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