The Proving Salience Hypothesis: A Computational Analysis of Editorial Convergence in Classical Homeopathic Materia Medica

The homeopathic materia medica is a genealogical succession of editorial compilations drawing independently from the same primary proving corpus. This manuscript presents a computational analysis of six analytical programmes applied to 5,767 dually-endorsed symptom pairs (Stratum A) across Allen's Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica and Hering's Guiding Symptoms, supplemented by Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura and The Chronic Diseases, across 92 shared remedies. The six programmes quantify proving salience (RP-1), editorial convergence (RP-2), prover alignment (RP-3), modality structure (RP-4), semantic divergence (RP-5), and remedy-level completeness (2-G/SRI). A bounded three-source alignment task (2-I) examines four remedies cited in Organon Aphorism 213. Key findings include: the Mind chapter shows lowest semantic divergence (DS_editorial = 0.260) combined with highest selection divergence; grade entropy is the strongest predictor of analytical completeness (Spearman ρ = 0.774); and Hering's grade assignments show no dependence on observer identity (p = 0.498), consistent with criterion-based Organon doctrine. Three analytical tasks are deferred to v2.0.0 and are disclosed in Limitations.