Epistemic accountability

Thinking Through Signs: PEEL as a Semiotic Scaffolding for Epistemically Accountable AI-Enabled Research

This commentary introduces PEEL, a working scaffolding combining deterministic distant reading with LLM interpretation, grounded in Peircean semiotics and abductive reasoning. Applied to AI-generated condensations, PEEL reveals systematic distortions invisible without non-AI measurement, implying deterministic instruments must accompany AI tools to ensure fidelity and epistemic authority.