Supplement I – Extended Methodological Notes

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”) This supplement provides consolidated methodological notes accompanying the existing preprints of the Wittenberg Framework. It does not introduce new concepts or extend the framework’s scope, but clarifies methodological assumptions that are distributed across the published texts. The document explicates the framework’s non-metric comparative orientation, its weak concept of validity, and its deliberate avoidance of optimization, aggregation, and prescriptive evaluation. Axes are understood as analytical constraints structuring interpretation rather than measurable dimensions. The clarification stands in proximity to philosophical discussions on value pluralism and incommensurability (Berlin; Chang), paradigm comparability (Kuhn), and hermeneutic interpretation (Ricoeur), while focusing specifically on the methodological conditions of normative comparison in AI-governance contexts. Version 1.0 (2026-02-26): Initial verison