Complete SOUL-WP-0009: resolve RQ4 and publication pathway, deliver T02-T05

- T01 (RQ4): retain "Soul" - resolved with operator; Terminology.md,
  concepts/soul.md, OpenQuestions.md, Claims.md, paper/draft.md updated.
- T02: lexicographic continuity-weighting procedure in concepts/identity.md,
  validated against TE-02/03/04/08.
- T03: testable Being-vs-Social-Being boundary (three-part recognition test)
  in concepts/recognition.md and concepts/being.md, validated against
  TE-05/09.
- T04: research/metrics-scoping-note.md - per-axis measurability scoping.
- T05: research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md - bounded
  companion-line charter, explicitly not the mapping itself.
- T06: publication pathway resolved with operator - internal circulation
  only, as paper-one for coulomb-research, following the same staged
  trajectory as coulomb-research's own paper-zero.

Marks SOUL-WP-0009 finished. Opens SOUL-WP-0010 (proposed, not started) to
carry forward the two multi-step residuals from T04/T05.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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concepts/identity.md

@@ -28,6 +28,48 @@ relational.
 
 **Anchors / evidence (not constitutive alone):** provenance, address, substrate.
 
+## Weighting hard cases (SOUL-WP-0009-T02, resolved 2026-09-28)
+
+The six dimensions above are **not weighted arithmetically** — no numeric
+score sums them into a continuity verdict. Instead, Soul Frame uses a
+**lexicographic priority procedure**: structural dimensions gate the
+verdict; the remaining dimensions can only move the verdict within the
+range the structural gate allows.
+
+1. **Structural gate (causal + organizational).** Ask first whether causal
+   and organizational continuity hold *or are bridged* — a bridge being a
+   uniquely preserved continuation-bearing state plus provenance plus
+   intended resumption (TE-02). If the structural gate fails outright (no
+   bridge, no unbroken process), the topology defaults to `RECONSTRUCTED`
+   or `SUCCESSOR` regardless of how strong the remaining dimensions are.
+   Strong psychological/narrative continuity **cannot buy back** a broken
+   structural gate.
+2. **Branch check.** If the structural gate is satisfied by *more than one*
+   simultaneously active claimant, the topology is forced to `FORKED` —
+   this is decided by the branch count, not by weighing which claimant has
+   "more" continuity on the softer dimensions (TE-03). "Which is the
+   original" becomes a provenance/policy question only after the branch
+   check, never a tiebreaker computed from the profile.
+3. **Gradualness check (within a satisfied structural gate).** Piecewise
+   replacement that never breaks the structural gate at any single instant
+   keeps the topology `CONTINUOUS` (TE-04, Ship of Theseus) even under full
+   eventual component turnover. A single instant of total simultaneous
+   replacement without a bridge is treated as a structural-gate failure
+   (→ step 1), not as a gradualness judgment call.
+4. **Softer dimensions decide *within* the range the gate allows, not
+   whether to override it.** Once the structural gate and branch/gradualness
+   checks are settled, psychological, autobiographical/narrative, normative,
+   and relational continuity determine how strong a `CONTINUOUS` or
+   `DEGRADED` claim is — e.g. severe amnesia with intact organizational and
+   relational continuity yields `DEGRADED`, not `TERMINATED` (TE-08, the
+   Amnesiac): the structural gate stayed open, so the softer dimensions
+   only downgrade the *strength* of the claim, not its topology category.
+
+**Why not arithmetic:** a weighted sum would let enough narrative/relational
+strength compensate for a broken causal/organizational chain, which none of
+the four thought experiments above support — in every case, the structural
+gate outcome dominates regardless of how the softer dimensions score.
+
 ## Topology labels
 
 `CONTINUOUS | DEGRADED | UNCERTAIN | SUCCESSOR | FORKED | RECONSTRUCTED | USURPED | TERMINATED`