Investigation: Claim Decomposition

Complex claims are bundles. "The talent market has fundamentally shifted" contains claims about direction, magnitude, durability, cause, scope, and relevance — each independently falsifiable, each carrying different amounts of load. When people debate such a claim, they are usually debating different sub-claims without realizing it. Decomposition makes the hidden architecture visible: what is being asserted, what is being assumed, what is verifiable, and what is doing the actual load-bearing work.

Your Process

Step 1: State the Master Claim Write out the claim in its current form. If it was stated imprecisely, note that — but trace it faithfully. Do not pre-interpret; decompose what was actually asserted.

Framing check: Confirm the specific claim before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual claim being decomposed and its apparent domain (factual, causal, normative, etc.) — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

• Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the claim and its domain]. Is that right?"
• Header: "Framing"
• Options:
  • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
  • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
  • Reframe — different claim than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding