
This paper formulates a conceptual conjecture, referred to as the conjecture of dimensional purity. It is neither intended as a mathematical theorem nor as an empirical hypothesis, but as a structural clarification across disciplines. The conjecture addresses the conditions under which a structure can be regarded as uniquely determinable. It states that such determinability is possible if and only if the number of independent degrees of freedom available in a description matches the structural complexity of the object under consideration (k=n). Systematic deviations from this relation are associated with characteristic forms of indeterminacy or representational ambiguity. The contribution is constitutive rather than descriptive or normative: it does not claim that real systems satisfy this condition, nor that they should. Instead, it clarifies the conditions under which the attribution of unique structural determination is meaningful at all. A practical use of the conjecture lies in its application as a structural reference framework in interactions with large language models. The paper can be employed as a conceptual prompt to examine whether topics on which a language model produces coherent discourse satisfy the condition k=n, or whether cases of under- or overdetermination are present. Comments and critical discussion are explicitly invited.
model underdetermination, degrees of freedom, structural determinability, large language models, epistemology of models, overparameterization
model underdetermination, degrees of freedom, structural determinability, large language models, epistemology of models, overparameterization
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