Supplement IX — Granular and Needle-Based Detection of Local Normative Tensions

Reader’s note: New readers are encouraged to begin with Part 0 , Chapter 4 (“Architecture of the Series and Reader Orientation ”), which provides a brief overview and orientation to the Framework. Links to Preprints are listed in Part 0, Chapter 5 (“Publication and Citation Record”) Supplement IX introduces a non-metric, qualitative extension of the Wittenberg Framework that increases analytical resolution at the level of textual instantiation. While the core framework enables simplex-based analysis of normative orders at regime or architecture level, this supplement focuses on how such orders are locally instantiated, emphasized, or strained within concrete textual units such as articles and paragraphs. The…