known-uses-validates-empirical-formalization

Status: IN

The GoF's requirement that each pattern must demonstrate at least two real-system examples from different domains completes the formalization heritage inherited from Alexander: where Alexander's architectural concept required observing recurring solutions in existing buildings, the GoF operationalizes this empiricism as a minimum cross-domain evidence threshold, ensuring that documented patterns have been independently discovered rather than theoretically constructed.

Justifications

Two-domain evidence requirement operationalizes Alexander's empirical principle

Depends on (SL): pattern-formalization-heritage, gof-known-uses-two-domains-minimum

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