This paper proposes a three-tier taxonomy of scientific discovery modes. Three individuals stand at a traffic signal: one sees yellow — a flag of ordered natural law. One sees red — a parrot wing of broken symmetry. One sees green — a skirt, something entirely outside the framework of the signal itself. These are not hierarchical levels of ability. They are orthogonal cognitive orientations operating at different temporal positions relative to the founding framework. The paper introduces a critical distinction: the three tiers are not simultaneous equals but temporally sequenced orientations — the Founder (Tier 1) builds the base, the Expander (Tier 2) decodes and extends it from within, the Destroyer (Tier 3) returns to the original observation as if the base never existed. All three are necessary. The Destroyer is always present but almost always ignored — first because the framework is too new to destroy, then because it is still productive to expand, and finally because no institutional channel was ever built to receive them. The paper proposes making the productive conditions of Tier 1 and Tier 2 deliberate institutional practices, before the Destroyer of each generation is lost.
Budinny V (Sat,) studied this question.