resolve-inventive-contradiction

resolve-inventive-contradiction

Purpose

Turn a technical or physical contradiction into targeted transformations and test whether the contradiction is resolved without creating a worse one.

Input contract

mode_contracts:
  technical-contradiction: &contradiction_input
    required: [contradiction_statement, conflicting_requirements, system_components]
    optional: [operating_conditions, target_metrics, known_principles]
    constraints: [improvement_and_worsening_parameters_must_be_explicit]
  physical-contradiction: *contradiction_input
  separation: *contradiction_input

Execution protocol

Do not perform called SOP operations inline; each loaded SOP owns its contract and thresholds.

1. You MUST load skill identify-inventive-contradiction to identify the contradiction type and parameters.
2. Apply the principle-selection or separation operations required by the selected mode.
3. You MUST load skill transform-component to transform the implicated components.
4. You MUST load skill evaluate-compatibility to evaluate compatibility and residual conflict.
5. You MUST load skill synthesize-idea to synthesize the candidate resolution.

Deviation: use separation before inventive principles only when the contradiction is physical; retain both analyses and state why.

Mode branches

• technical-contradiction: represent the improving and worsening engineering parameters, use the contradiction matrix to select principles, and test the resulting trade-off. You MUST load skill select-inventive-principle to select the applicable principles.
• physical-contradiction: split the conflicting requirement by condition, time, space, or scale so one component can satisfy both demands without averaging them. You MUST load skill apply-separation-principle to apply the separation options. You MUST load skill select-inventive-principle to retain the required principle analysis.
• separation: search explicitly for a separation condition, transform the implicated component under that condition, and verify that residual conflicts are reduced. You MUST load skill apply-separation-principle to search and apply that condition.

Output contract

mode_contracts:
  technical-contradiction: &contradiction_output
    produces: [contradiction_resolution, transformed_configuration, residual_conflicts, candidate_ideas]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, uncertainties, decisions, recommended_jumps]
  physical-contradiction: *contradiction_output
  separation: *contradiction_output

Thresholds and quality gates

• B: contradiction type, selected principles, transformations, and residual trade-offs are all traceable; resolution must improve the target without violating the other requirement.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject a solution that merely accepts the trade-off, renames the contradiction, or shifts harm outside the declared boundary.

Provenance map

• creative-ideation/structural-deconstruction: resolved.
• triz, contradiction-matrix, separation-principles: concept (no exact pool entries).

Preserved source criteria ledger

• Preserve contradiction matrix reasoning, physical separation, and compatibility validation.

Context checkpoint / Delta notes

Append contradiction parameters, selected principles, transformed components, residual conflicts, and decision rationale.