The Representational Grammar of Economic Science: Admissibility-Oriented, Comparison-Responsive, Resolution-Determining, Conjunctively Operative, and Minimal

The structural domain of economic science has been established: transformation-conditioned, endogenously modified, path-dependent, relationally conditioned, and reflexive. The question this paper addresses is what any representational grammar must structurally be in order to remain operable over that domain. The answer is established by extraction: identifying what any representational operation over the forced domain already tacitly presupposes, eliminating the possibility that those presuppositions are reducible to fewer commitments, compressing the irreducible commitments into their minimal form, and fixing the result as the grammar of economic science. Three irreducible commitments are extracted: an orientation toward the reachability conditions determining which configurations belong to the forced domain—including the fact that available transformations are those the current domain affords; a structural connection to the comparison conditions differentiating configurations within the domain; and a capacity to resolve which configurations the representational operation covers at any moment. Each is established by the failure of its absence, not by derivation from a positive account of representation. Each is shown irreducible by exhausting all reduction strategies. The three are then compressed into axes—the admissibility axis (A), the comparison axis (C), and the resolution axis (R)—and shown to operate conjunctively: no axis engages without the simultaneous engagement of the others. The result is fixed as the representational grammar: Γ = (A, C, R) under conjunctive operation. This grammar is the minimum fixed specification presupposed by any representational execution over the forced domain. It is extracted, not constructed; forced, not chosen. Grammar fixation does not determine whether any existing representational apparatus satisfies these conditions. That determination—the structural testing of Γ against the forced domain—is the problem this paper opens and does not address.