zero_parameter
plain-language theorem explainer
A framework F is zero-parameter exactly when its parameters field is zero. Researchers formalizing the no-alternatives claim cite this predicate to restrict attention to parameter-free candidates. The definition is a direct field projection from the AlternativeFramework structure.
Claim. An alternative framework $F$ is zero-parameter when the number of free parameters satisfies $F.parameters = 0$.
background
The module formalizes inevitability structure under a cost-as-foundation approach. Alternatives are organized into three buckets: choices about the cost functional itself, the meaning of existence, and the admissible class of frameworks. Any zero-parameter framework that derives observables must either match RS or violate one of the six necessity gates (cost uniqueness, selection rule, discreteness, ledger structure, self-similarity, dimension).
proof idea
One-line definition that projects the parameters field of the AlternativeFramework structure and asserts equality to zero.
why it matters
This definition supplies the zero-parameter hypothesis for the downstream inevitability theorem, which asserts that any such framework deriving observables must reduce to RS or violate a gate. It operationalizes the module's core claim that selection occurs by minimizing a unique cost and that alternatives must break a necessity gate. The construction directly supports the T5 J-uniqueness and T6 phi-forcing steps of the Recognition Science chain.
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