Scientific Epistemic Metrology (SEM): Discipline Spine v0.5

Scientific Epistemic Metrology (SEM) is a development-candidate discipline proposal concerned with the traceability, calibration and bounded standing of scientific claims as they move through observation, representation, computation, interpretation, comparison and succession. SEM begins from a jurisdictional premise: science may reason far beyond direct perception, but whatever standing a scientific claim acquires must remain recoverable to the physically instantiated information, operations, exposure conditions and representations through which that standing was earned. SEM therefore does not attempt to measure Reality or truth directly. It proposes instead to measure the integrity of the scientifically recoverable relation between evidence, operation, representation and claim. The paper develops a typed rather than scalar approach to epistemic calibration, including traceability, exposure fidelity, operational adequacy, referential fidelity, scope fidelity, provenance continuity, residual preservation and successor discipline. It introduces the Scientific Epistemic Measurement Event (SEME), the associated Scientific Epistemic Measurement Record (SEMR), and distinguishes these from the earlier Dot Theory Seme: a claim-bearing informational object capable of carrying semantic entitlement between scientific operations. SEM is positioned within the wider Dot Theory research programme at dottheory.co.uk and in developmental relation to the Canonical Constitutional Record (CCR), Constitutional Physics: Scholarly Positioning and Comparative Literature Review (CP-SPLR-001), and F O R M / Constitutional Verification Protocol (CVP). These relationships establish provenance and methodological context; they are not presented as independent validation of SEM. This v0.5 publication is deposited as a Development Candidate. It proposes a domain, vocabulary, candidate measurands, calibration operations, failure conditions and research programme sufficiently explicitly for independent criticism, comparison and testing. If the proposed irreducible function of SEM collapses entirely into existing disciplines, its claim to separate disciplinary standing should be abandoned rather than preserved by terminology alone. Author: Stefaan Vossen ⊙DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23041075Research programme: Dot Theory — www.dottheory.co.uk