IndisputableMonolith.Foundation.Ethics
Foundation module packaging domain-level ethical cost, a positive canonical threshold, and a restoration-justice certificate in RS units. Auditors cite it when lifting J-cost nonnegativity to just-restoration bounds. Mostly definitions plus short positivity and inhabited-certificate lemmas over Cost and Constants.
claimDefines a domain cost $C$ with $C\ge 0$ and pointwise evaluation identities, a canonical threshold $\theta>0$, and a restoration-justice certificate type that is inhabited.
background
Recognition Science routes measurement and dynamics through a unique nonnegative cost $J$, imported here from Cost, with RS time quantum $\tau_0$ from Constants. Ethics is treated as the same cost language lifted from scalar ratios to domains (states, acts, or agents).
The module introduces domainCost (nonnegative, with an evaluation identity), a fixed canonicalThreshold proved positive, and a certificate bundle RestorationJust4Cert with an inhabited instance. No forcing-chain theorems are restated; the setting is purely the cost calculus used elsewhere for mass ladders and tick structure.
proof idea
Definition-first module, not a deep proof development. Cost and threshold objects are defs; nonnegativity and positivity are short lemmas inheriting $J\ge 0$ style facts from Cost. The restoration certificate is a structure plus an inhabited instance (cert_inhabited), not a multi-step derivation.
why it matters in Recognition Science
Keeps ethics inside the same J-cost ledger as physics (T5 uniqueness of $J$), so restoration bounds share units and positivity with the rest of the monolith. The graph currently lists no downstream consumers; the natural parents are future just-restoration or policy lemmas that need a nonnegative domain cost and a positive threshold. Touches no open T0–T8 gap directly; it is scaffolding for cost-based normative claims rather than a forcing step.
scope and limits
- Does not derive moral norms from the forcing chain beyond cost nonnegativity.
- Does not prove uniqueness or optimality of the canonical threshold.
- Does not model multi-agent games, incentives, or dynamics.
- Does not link ethics certificates to phi-ladder mass or eight-tick theorems.
- Does not supply empirical calibration of the threshold.