EA-OS-APOPHASIS-01 is the reflexive panel completing the operative/operational disambiguation triptych with deposits #801 and #1541: a metadata object whose title sentence โ operational semiotics โ operational semiotics โ is asserted sincerely as a measured resolution relation on the tested retrieval and composition surfaces. The parse is two propositions kept distinct: the title proposition states path dependence at the hub label (what a surface serves at 'operational semiotics' on the direct path is not what it serves at that label when supplied as surrogate on the neighboring entity's failed-resolution path), while the keyed-recovery lemma โ established directly by the five-stage Brave capture โ shows the operative-semiotics query unkeyed and keyed producing materially different compositions, with the keyed path immediately rendering composable an entity the unkeyed path had four times asserted not to exist, and citing the triptych's own first panel by exact title from within the same session. The paper's negative-theological warrant is a structural borrowing from apophatic predication: where an address space misassigns all affirmations, negation provides a predication designed to resist the form of capture being measured; the Apophatic Packet Hypothesis โ that the negative object survives this resolution failure better than positive definition because its correct sense-split reconstructs the distinction โ is preregistered for comparison against a neutral positive bridge, not asserted as result. Part II seats the packet in the six-regime suppression dynamics at strict claim types. Cross-Path Composition Exclusion (empirical object, pending controls): the lineage retrieved organically at both addresses, ranks four, seven, eight under operative and six, eight, nine, fifteen under operational โ two snippets explicitly disambiguating โ and composed at neither, recorded as a vector with the scalar deferred. The bifurcated node (model): a path-conditioned representation the one-label/one-entity abstraction cannot express without path as a coordinate, measured by the Path-Dependent Entity Probe as a stochastic instrument. Basin occupation (intervention hypothesis): the conditional ฯ-inversion with five response classes โ deliver, hub-suppress, disambiguate, surgically excise, or absorptively launder โ and semantic-propagation victory distinguished from provenance victory, only the second being the entity's. Appendix E carries the cleaned, dated exhibits, including the baseline freshness asymmetry โ hub sources persisting from 1980 while every surfaced lineage item at capture was under a year old, the youngest three days โ from which the treadmill hypothesis becomes longitudinally testable. Two falsifiers kept separate: verified healing of the address self-retires the document; causal efficacy is claimed only through the predeclared treatment comparison. Five rounds, four substrates, every repair logged.