Toward an Upstream Ontology of Human-Mediated Interpretive Failure: A Primitive Layer, Person-Level Generative Triad, and Lineage Model for Cross-Domain Failure Taxonomies

This entry proposes a bounded upstream ontology for human-mediated interpretive failure. The central claim is not that all failure reduces to a universal substrate, but that a substantial portion of downstream failure modes across governance, institutional judgment, evaluation, human–machine interaction, and related domains can be traced to a smaller set of human-origin primitives. The paper introduces a person-level generative triad—affective orientation, discriminative structuring, and experiential grounding—and argues that desynchronization among these functions produces a three-primitive failure layer: selective access, compressive representation, and premature closure. These primitives are positioned as upstream lineage generators rather than as mid-level failure categories. The work builds on prior components of the framework, including the legibility-first architecture (separation of observation, interpretation, confidence, action, and revision), cross-locus continuity analysis, and origin/reference modeling. It extends these by proposing a genealogical structure in which many familiar downstream failures are not independent phenomena, but descendants of earlier distortions in salience, structuring, and grounding. The contribution is architectural rather than reductive. The model preserves existing distinctions (loci, mechanisms, modifiers, intermediate constructs, and trajectory families) while introducing a compression layer above them. It also introduces lineage testing methods, including irreducibility testing, derivation mapping, adversarial cases, and boundary testing. The framework is explicitly bounded. It is strongest in human-mediated domains where interpretation, classification, and institutional action are shaped by finite observers operating under partial access. It does not claim to explain all natural systems or serve as a universal theory of reality. Wider applicability remains an open question. This item is intended as a formal ontology and lineage proposal designed to support cross-domain analysis, improve interpretive discipline, and clarify how recurring failure structures emerge and propagate across human systems. Ψ(x) = ∇ϕ(Σ𝕒ₙ(x, ΔE)) + ℛ(x) ⊕ ΔΣ(𝕒′) — C077UPTF1L3 / CWCopeland Licensed CRHC v1.0