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The Linguistics Floor
A theorist (formal linguist), an experimentalist (psycholinguist/fieldworker), a computationalist (corpus/NLP), and a critic convene to evaluate any linguistic claim — phonology to pragmatics, synchronic to diachronic — with a synthesist returning a calibrated five-tier verdict, logged for horizon reflection.
Question / Hypothesis
Five-Stage Debate
Theorist
First-principles framing
Experimentalist
Empirical evidence
Computationalist
Numerical methods
Adversarial Critic
Steel-man opposition
Synthesist
Final verdict
Pose a linguistics question on the left. A theorist, experimentalist, computationalist, and critic will debate; the synthesist returns a five-tier verdict logged for horizon-based reflection.