# Logos Synthesis Guide

The final synthesis destination is Christ as Logos, not vague generic theism.

## Core Clarification

The staged structure is not special pleading. It is conditional inference. The audit question is whether upstream stages are argued honestly, rival-tested, and dependency-capped.

`AuditGuardrailSynthesisV1` is the published conservative audit guardrail: stage-conditioned, dependency-adjusted, component-weighted, and deliberately cautious. The project allows it mathematically as an audit guardrail, but does not regard it as the full walked-path reading. `GuidedStagedPathV1` is the official carried-stage path. The reader's walked path is browser-local: it shows what follows if the reader grants, discounts, or strengthens each stage's evidence weight.

None of these is proof, salvation, a final unconditional Bayesian posterior, or a flat peer-hypothesis comparison. A very high walked path means the staged evidence has been granted; it does not mean the conservative audit guardrail vanished.

If earlier stages are accepted or conditionally live, final Logos should not be reset to the original base prior as if the upstream work never happened. An auditor must name which upstream stage is rejected, weakened, or recomputed.

Direct Resurrection evidence from the default skeptical prior is more modest than the final staged result. The high Stage 5 result comes from Resurrection evidence being evaluated after earlier stages have already shifted the working prior through the staged path. This is intentional, but it must be labeled clearly.

Known current weaknesses / future strengthening targets:
- Stage 2, revelation-ready theism: thinner than the root God stage.
- Stage 3, public revelation: needs continued source-layer strengthening and dependency refinement.
- Stage 5, Resurrection: direct evidence and carried-prior result must remain visibly distinct.
- Stage 6, Logos residual/synthesis closure: needs ongoing audit so final convergence is not treated as one isolated direct proof.
- Comparative worldview coverage remains uneven, especially for naturalism as a positive worldview rather than merely local mechanism success.

Direct Logos anchors added in v0.3-era work:
- John 1 as direct Logos anchor.
- Colossians 1 and cosmic Christ mediation.
- Hebrews 1 and Son-mediated creation and revelation.
- 1 Corinthians 8:6 as bridge.
- Why Christ, not generic theism.
- Canonical Logos convergence as unweighted explanatory context.

Related clusters:
- early high Christology / worship;
- Synoptic divine prerogatives;
- Resurrection witness and alternatives;
- Scripture throughline and typology, with caveats;
- global and textual defeaters with Christian answer pointers.

Current totals:
- `H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS`: raw `0.475`, dependency-adjusted `0.20325`, items `55`
- `H-CHRIST-IDENTITY`: raw `2`, dependency-adjusted `1.19275`, items `65`

Interpretation controls:
- use dependency-adjusted totals for anti-inflation checks;
- distinguish raw totals, posterior-style beta scores, dependency-adjusted totals, official audit synthesis, guided staged path, FullSignalPathV1, propagation diagnostics, and cap diagnostics;
- do not treat one anchor as final synthesis proof;
- keep direct Logos anchors distinct from stage-conditioned final Logos synthesis;
- keep fine-tuning in the root-metaphysics lane unless discussing its indirect staged relevance;
- keep defeaters active as real pressure.

Caveat: John 1 is a direct canonical Logos anchor. It is not the earliest independent high-Christology proof by itself. Use dependency caps.
