Architectural Epistemics. Founding The Science of Epistemic Architecture

Epistemic life is governed by architectures, yet no existing discipline provides a structural science capable of explaining how epistemic worlds are constructed, polarized, and reproduced. This paper founds Architectural Epistemics, a new scientific field that models epistemic systems through their generative architectures rather than their propositional content. At the core of this new science is a unified triadic framework integrating Forced Position Framing (FPF), the Epistemic Polarity Framework (EPF), and Supra Agency Theory (SAT), which together reveal the developmental sequence through which epistemic environments originate and mature. FPF establishes the primordial forcing layer by collapsing interpretive neutrality and assigning agents to predefined epistemic positions. EPF transforms these forced positions into stable structural commitments, demonstrating that all epistemic environments crystallize into mutually exclusive poles: Transparency Epistemics (TE) or Opacity Epistemics (OE). SAT then shows how these polarity commitments generate full agentic architectures—FAM (Freedom Agency Model) arising from TE and SCAM (Supra Containment Agency Model) arising from OE—each producing distinct distributions of agency, authority, and epistemic presumptions. Together, these three frameworks form a cyclical, self reinforcing architecture in which forced interpretive constraints generate epistemic polarity, polarity generates agentic hierarchy, and agentic hierarchy recursively shapes future forcing environments. This triadic model provides the foundational structure for Architectural Epistemics, offering a full stack explanation of how epistemic worlds are authored, stabilized, and reproduced across interpersonal, institutional, ideological, and civilizational domains.