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# 5.10 Decision Priority

LPP uses a non-compensatory decision priority.

The canonical ordering is:

```
COLLAPSE
>
DENY
>
DEFER
>
ADMIT
```

This ordering means that a lower-priority favorable condition cannot override a higher-priority failure.

#### Collapse Dominates

If any required condition produces `COLLAPSE`, another valid condition cannot restore the result to `ADMIT`.

Conceptually:

```
One structural collapse
+
many valid conditions
=
COLLAPSE
```

not:

```
average score
=
ADMIT
```

#### Deny Dominates Defer and Admit

If a mandatory condition is definitively invalid:

```
DENY
```

cannot be converted to `DEFER` merely because other information remains unresolved.

Likewise it cannot be converted to `ADMIT` by positive confidence elsewhere.

#### Defer Dominates Admit

If a mandatory condition remains unresolved:

```
DEFER
```

must not silently become `ADMIT`.

This prevents execution through:

* missing information,
* unavailable authority,
* pending approval,
* unresolved verification,
* or ambiguity.

#### Admit Is the Terminal Positive Outcome

`ADMIT` is produced only when no higher-priority failure condition remains.

The structure is therefore:

```
Structural integrity?
    No → COLLAPSE

Mandatory validity?
    No → DENY

Required information resolved?
    No → DEFER

All required predicates satisfied?
    Yes → ADMIT
```

This priority implements the non-compensatory logic established earlier in LPP.