A coordinate system for settled scholarship · companion to the open-problems atlas
The central questions rarely settle — but the fields still produce results of distinct kinds: forensic facts won by evidence (decipherments, datings), retired errors (views refuted or shown incoherent), and distinctions and frameworks that stuck, adopted not by proof but by fruitfulness. The axes are kind of result, how it is secured, and status. Where the open-problems atlas maps constitutive contestation, this maps what got nailed down.