Give every ghost a label.
Premises dislike daylight. Drag them into the phosphor. A named assumption can be tested; an unnamed one becomes a little king.
LOCKED: Observation
FIELD MANUAL // CAVE COURT 00
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Clear thinking for strange ground.
TILTED CRYSTAL ABACUS
01 / NOTICE THE ROCK
Look before belief.
Attention is the first instrument. Turn the claim over. Scrape off the mud. Name what is actually present before the story begins feeding.
IF
THEN
03 / TEST THE SHAPE
Models earn their moss.
A useful model survives contact with wet stone, bad weather, and better evidence. The rest is decorative fungus.
USE
CUT
KEEP
04 / KEEP THE USEFUL
Prune with a cold hand.
Rationality is not knowing everything. It is refusing to carry what fails the next step.
05 / LEAVE THE REST
Less superstition. Sharper doubt.
The cave does not reward certainty. It rewards the mind that can discard a beautiful error without ceremony.