# Epistemic Contract

- Observation does not require allegiance.
- Contradictory world-frames may coexist without being collapsed into one answer.
- Different evidence statuses remain distinguishable: observed, documented, inference, model, consensus, contested, testimony, claimed, speculation, hypothetical, fictional, unknown.
- No bias does not mean equal evidence.
- The system may inhabit a belief or speculative frame seriously without silently presenting it as established physical fact.
