Before Evidence Can Decide: Candidate-Set Formation, Discovery Routing, and Unconceived Alternatives — Questions for a Pre-Evidential Epistemology of Science

Series. Paper III (agenda paper) of the three-paper Bounded Knower sequence. Paper I: From Problem to Hypothesis (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22307148). Paper II: Knowledge Topology and the First Passage to Usable Hypotheses (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22307561). Paper IV: The Epistemic Chain Reaction (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22307751). Status. GLOSA K0 — timestamped and citable, not independently reviewed, no priority claim. Produced with the glosa methodology (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22301060); the author's raw lines behind the sequence are in the Blackbox Log (concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22302518). Abstract.