• README ⤓ .txt 2026-07-17T155639.000 000000000027800
  A method is formalized experience. Someone encountered a class of problems repeatedly, noticed what worked, and wrote it down with enough precision that others could replicate the success without recapitulating the failures.
• General
  Fundamental cognitive operations rather than tradition-specific methods — structural moves available to any mind facing limits.
• Specific
  Methods as they were actually developed: tradition-bound, indexed first by the lineage that produced them and then by the domain they were built for.
• CRITERIA ⤓ .txt 2026-07-17T121634.146 000000000000384
  Not sufficient: A principle, which is true but too vague to act on ("understand the problem before solving it"). A heuristic, which usually works but specifies no conditions under which it does. A framework, ontology, taxonomy, or conceptual scheme, however sophisticated — these provide a way of seeing, not something to do. If it does not tell you what to do next, it is not a method.