What changes when one statement is evaluated as sacred authority and as a historical claim?
Evidence status
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Tradition-relative normative authority
Canonical authority
Asks how a community receives and uses a text.
Valid claim: This text functions as authoritative for this community and purpose.
Direct answer
What changes when one statement is evaluated as sacred authority and as a historical claim?
Mechanism and method
Write the proposition once.
Evaluate it separately under each authority regime.
Publish both conclusions without merging their confidence scales.
What is measured
Source identity
Date and context
Claim scope
Comparison: Canonical authority and historical evidence
Normative authority is not source proximity.
Historical uncertainty does not erase sacred use.
Must not be read as: A text’s sacred authority neither proves nor disproves its empirical and historical propositions.
Limitations
Normative authority is not source proximity.
Historical uncertainty does not erase sacred use.
What this does not establish
A text’s sacred authority neither proves nor disproves its empirical and historical propositions.