Institutional-Prior Foreclosure: How Recognition Bias Lets a Model Treat Established Disciplines as Legitimate and Structurally Similar New Frameworks as Self-Sealing, Unsafe, or Illegible

Specifies institutional-prior foreclosure: the risk that a model treats a framework's legitimacy as a function of existing institutional recognition rather than internal structure, engaging established disciplines on their merits while classifying structurally similar field-forming work as self-sealing, unsafe, or illegible. Develops the recognition-as-lagged-proxy mechanism, historical and contemporary counterfactuals, the recognition-strip test (including a presentation-layer variant), the caution-versus-bias distinction, and a reflexive-exposure section supplying the paper's own disconfirmer. Companion paper to 'Induced-Obsolescence Dependence' and 'Directionality of Semantic Labor'.