This work presents ESSC Version 7, a non-dynamical reformulation of the Elastic Spacetime with Scale-Dependent Coupling framework as a structural consistency filter for galactic-scale gravitational interpretation. ESSC v7 does not propose new physical entities, forces, or modified gravitational laws. Instead, it clarifies the structural conditions under which heterogeneous observational probes—such as local rotation curves and global weak gravitational lensing—can coherently be interpreted as referring to a single effective gravitational potential. The framework introduces an inequality-based structure that explicitly accommodates irreducible ambiguity arising from partial structural closure at galactic scales. Quantities such as transition radii and transition widths are treated as observation-dependent translation parameters rather than intrinsic physical scales. Variability across observational probes is therefore interpreted as a necessary feature of coherent interpretation, not as evidence for physical inconsistency. ESSC v7 does not compete with dark matter models, modified gravity theories, or emergent gravity approaches. Rather, it operates at a pre-dynamical level, identifying when apparent observational tensions arise from misinterpretation of structural assumptions rather than from genuine physical discrepancies. By foregrounding consistency before dynamics, ESSC provides a minimal, model-independent criterion for assessing the internal coherence of gravitational interpretations in regimes where object-level identification is nontrivial.
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