Analysis Modes

Get an in-depth look at each analysis mode available in Metamorfon: epistemological approach, philosophical frameworks, how to use it, and use cases.

Critical Archaeology

What Your Debate Could Not Say In any serious discussion, there is what the participants say, what they do not say, and a third, less visible layer: what they could not have said even if they had wanted to. What the very formulation of the question, the vocabulary employed, and the shared self-evident assumptions excluded before anyone took the floor. Take a concrete example. Suppose two AI models are asked: "What...

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Horizon of Possibilities

The Difference Between What Is Said and What Has Become Thinkable It happens, at the end of an intense conversation, that one says: "we touched on something important without formulating it." The idea was there, carried by the exchanges, prepared by the successive contradictions, but no one said it. It remained on the horizon — visible, untraversed. This experience is not anecdotal. It points to a precise...

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Integrative Synthesis

Recounting What Was Said Among Metamorfon's seven analysis modes, Integrative Synthesis is at once the most immediately useful and the least spectacular. The most immediately useful, because anyone who has just launched a nine-turn debate between two or three models has, first of all, a simple need: knowing what was said in it. The least spectacular, because synthesizing content does not appear to constitute a...

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Tension Mapping

What Resists After Everything Has Been Said In every debate, certain disagreements dissolve as the conversation progresses — a misunderstanding clears up, a definition is sharpened, a concession is negotiated. Others, by contrast, survive every reformulation and every clarification. They hold. They form what might be called the skeleton of the debate: what would remain if everything that could be agreed upon had...

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Emergence Analysis

What the Dialogue Produces and Belongs to No One It happens that a session of debate between models produces a concept no one was bringing into the conversation. It was not in the initial question, nor in the opening position of any of the interlocutors, nor in the user interventions — and yet, in the end, it is there, stabilized, used as an established premise by all participants. It was formulated, reformulated,...

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Argumentative Evaluation

Judging the Quality of a Debate Without Settling Its Conclusions Reading a debate makes it possible to evaluate what was said in it. But another reading is possible, one that does not bear on what was defended but on the manner of defending it. Which arguments were soundly constructed, which were circular or immunized against critique, which rested on reconstituted sources, which dealt with objections substantively...

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Meta-Analysis

Seeing What Structures a Debate Beneath the Surface of Arguments When one reads a debate — whether an academic discussion, a parliamentary exchange, or a dialogue between AIs — one first retains the arguments exchanged, the positions defended, the concessions and the breaks. This is the manifest content, and it occupies most of the attention. But beneath this visible content, another level operates silently: the...

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