Epistemic Governance under Non-Domination: A Constitutional–Architectural Framework for Intelligent Systems

This paper develops a constitutional–architectural framework for epistemic governance under conditions of non-domination. It establishes the structural conditions under which advanced intelligent systems may participate in epistemic activity without acquiring the capacity to unilaterally determine outcomes. The framework introduces a foundational distinction between epistemic processes and authority-conferring operations, and specifies three interrelated mechanisms: bounded-loss translation, structured epistemic memory, and adversarial verification. Three formal propositions are established: the Godel-Popper Residue Principle, the Non-Domination Constraint, and Bounded-Loss Translation. The paper is a companion to the ESI framework paper and shares a common constitutional kernel by design. Published by Spiros P. Kalalis, Institute of Epistemic Systems, CIVIL EPA PC, Athens, Greece. Licensed under CIVIL Constitutional Non-Domination License v1.0 (CCNDL-1): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19615246