Transition Drivers (β₆)

Forces that compress interpretive variability toward binding

1. Canonical Definition

Transition Drivers (β₆) are event-internal forces that compress interpretive variability and accelerate threshold crossing toward binding. β₆ forces increase pressure on an interpretive event by reducing reversibility and narrowing the range of viable candidate meanings as binding conditions are approached.

2. Phase and Preconditions

• Operates: event-internal (pre-binding)

• Requires: an active interpretive event with candidate variability

• Does not require: binding, action governance, Event Closure State resolution, crystallization, legitimacy, or drift

3. Scope and Exclusions

Transition Drivers are not:

• constraints or constraint hierarchies

• governance or binding acts

• post-event forces

• temporal dynamics such as drift

• evaluative variables or diagnostic measures

4. Structural Role

Transition Drivers act on the conditions of binding, not on meaning content or constraint dominance. They increase interpretive compression by accelerating convergence, hardening thresholds, and decreasing reversibility as a system approaches binding. β₆ forces explain why interpretation may collapse quickly under pressure without determining which interpretation becomes governing.

5. Authority and Legitimacy Status

• Authority relation: neutral

• Legitimacy relation: not applicable

Transition Drivers do not authorize action or affect legitimacy. Authority and legitimacy are determined at binding through meaning regimes.

6. Relation to Constraint Dominance and Stabilizers

Constraint Dominance determines which constraints control interpretive resolution. Transition Drivers (β₆) determine how fast and how forcefully that resolution is reached. Transition Stabilizers (γ₆) counterbalance β₆ by preserving reversibility and interpretive range prior to binding.

7. Common Category Errors

• Treating β₆ as acting on drift or persistence

• Confusing transition drivers with dominant constraints

• Assuming higher β₆ implies correctness or legitimacy

• Applying β₆ post-binding

8. Canonical Cross-References

Interpretation • Interpretive Dynamics • Constraint Dominance • Binding • Transition Stabilizers (γ₆)

9. Plain Statement

Transition drivers are pressures that make interpretation collapse faster, without deciding what interpretation wins.