InferenceTouch names the minimal contact through which a trace, sign or fragment becomes connected to a possible meaning. It precedes proof and does not yet establish a conclusion. The operator isolates the fragile beginning of interpretation: the moment when heterogeneous elements are placed close enough for a relation to be suspected. Touch gives inference material restraint. The connection must remain light enough to be revised, yet precise enough to open a path toward verification or disagreement.
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