active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction

Mutually exclusive heuristic will refer to the absolute delineation of an arbitrarily defined phenomenal set, as either one, but never both, of a collectively exhaustive pair of classifications, whereby the scope of the set, and thereby the assignment of either classification, is contextual, and circumstantial – commonly used as a tool of cognition, to conceptually isolate, filter, and aspectually frame, a set of phenomena, by abstract distinction.

a mutex heuristic is like an arbitrarily assignable attribute for a discreet conceptual polarity