Human events rarely possess a single meaning. They refract.

An action taken by a state, a court, or a movement may appear morally catastrophic through one lens, strategically rational through another, and economically destabilizing through a third. These are not contradictions. They are refractions.

PRISM//Index is a structured method for identifying the value hierarchy beneath interpretation. It distinguishes factual disagreement from normative disagreement and makes visible the priorities that silently shape judgment.

It does not produce certainty.
It produces clarity.