Explanation statuses — Whether the record believes the ACCOUNT, which is not what the same word means on a practice. An explanation can be Rejected while the thing it explained goes on working exactly as well as it ever did (ADR-031).
Disbelieved — tested and failed, or contradicted by later work — and the thing it explained may still work perfectly well.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG-002 | Interpretive framings change a reader’s state as non-commuting measurements do, so the frame participates in determining which meaning becomes actual | U10: “feels like our conversation is headed towards quantum cognition”. A21 read framings as projectors on an interpretive state and concluded that translation actualizes latent meaning. Undercut at A24, A27 and A30: context sensitivity and order effects have classical models. | Rejected |
| ARG-004 | Relativistic frames vary descriptions systematically under constrained transformations with invariants, so variations in translation are transformations between pragmatic frames preserving selected invariants | U9 asked to connect the frame idea with “the precision of ‘relativistic frame’ qua physics”. A18 built the analogy and undercut it in the same reply: translation operations are not invertible and do not compose. Only its research-programme respect survived. | Rejected |
| ARG-010 | Causality paradoxes in relativity show that locally consistent descriptions can lack a global realization, so local interpretations need not be fragments of one global interpretation | The owner’s inference, made twice and declined twice: at U46 from the paradoxes of closed timelike curves, at U47 from “who crossed the meeting point first?”. A161 and A164 refused it. Filed because two claims undercut it, and because the relativity analogy has now returned, through the owner, after ARG-004. | Rejected |
| ARG-011 | On the crossed topic-and-act design, judgement factorizations that recover the act where a topic-only factorization fails would show that a factorization recovers only the structure in the relations it is fitted to | The planned evidence for the October thesis, CLAIM-129, is CASE-040, which crosses topic with act. Rejected for that design as filed: the act is fixed by whoever writes the items and the topic-only baseline is built to fail on the critical cells, so “a pass shows that the items were built as intended”. The record conceded the point on 2026-10-10 and repaired the thesis’s defeat condition. | Rejected |
| ARG-012 | An attributed-speaker factorial study shows which relations constitute a communicative act | CASE-021’s factorial study varies the attributed speaker, and a change in act classifications under it would be read as evidence that an act is partly constituted by its relation to the speaker. Telling readers who spoke is a do(I), not a do(S), so such an effect is evidence about interpretation under instruction. CLAIM-130 states the distinction and undercuts the inference. | Rejected |
| ARG-013 | The invented renderings of one sentence by four speakers show that a translation can reach pragmatic equivalence by compensation | CLAIM-091 lists the fictional CASE-018 in its grounds, which ADR-032 makes evidence. Rejected: the case’s own body says “Invented, so it shows a possibility”, and the thesis needs more than the possibility. The documented case CASE-066 attests the mechanism but supplies no reader evidence either. | Rejected |
| ARG-014 | Agreement with TV Tropes labels validates the structural account of tropes | A155 presents TV Tropes as “the clearest large-scale empirical setting” for the structural account of tropes (CLAIM-147). Trope descriptions are written from their examples, and examples are added that fit the descriptions, so a measure that predicts the labels predicts editorial agreement. Rejected for labels used as the test. A178’s Study B control would answer it; A218 drops the control. | Rejected |
| ARG-018 | Illusions, reappraisal and interoceptive inference show that experience is constituted by interpretive organization | The owner’s examples at U2 of the exchange of 2026-10-21, the rubber hand illusion and CBT, with interoceptive inference added by the record, offered as evidence that experience is constituted by interpretive organization. They are what a production account predicts too. A7’s verdict, which CLAIM-412 adopted: “These motivate interpretive construction. They do not, individually or collectively, prove interpretive constitution.” | Rejected |
| ARG-020 v2 | The compensation hypothesis gives the mechanism by which a rendering keeps the act while changing the proposition | CLAIM-053 credited A24’s compensation hypothesis with the mechanism for the necessity half: a rendering can keep the act while changing the proposition. Rejected on CLAIM-229’s reply. The hypothesis says that lexical infidelity can be required for pragmatic fidelity, which is about words, and a change of wording can keep the proposition. | Rejected |
| ARG-021 | The manuscript’s renderings, which keep the words and change the act, show that keeping the proposition is not necessary for keeping the act | The manuscript §1 reads its own renderings as showing that preserving the proposition is “neither necessary nor sufficient”. Rejected: the renderings keep the words and change the act, which is a case of the proposition kept without the act. That refutes sufficiency only. Necessity needs the act kept while the proposition changes, and neither case is one. | Rejected |
| ARG-022 v2 | The 2016 Contextuality-by-Default paper grounds the criterion the manuscript’s general observational covers need | The manuscript cites Dzhafarov and Kujala 2016 for its contextuality criterion. The 2016 criterion was being replaced by multimaximal couplings as it appeared, and the change matters for observables in more than two contexts, which the manuscript’s general observational covers allow. Proposed, by the owner’s ruling of 2026-10-27: the record holds that the change can bite, not that it does. | Rejected — Rejected on the condition its own body names, “a worked system that is noncontextual under CbD 1.0 and contextual under 2.0”: THEORY-168’s note of 2026-10-29 gives one, binary, with a content in four contexts. |
| ARG-023 | The Yoneda lemma shows that relations constitute what a communicative act is | The Yoneda lemma fixes an object up to isomorphism from its whole hom-functor, and it is read as the formal version of “an object is determined by its relations”. It fixes the object only among objects the category already has, so it presupposes the relata. It cannot establish constitution, and it gives elimination of the relata no support. CLAIM-150 undercuts it. | Rejected |
| ARG-024 | The invented renderings of one sentence by four speakers show that participant roles partly constitute the act | CLAIM-151 lists the fictional CASE-018 in its grounds, and its first defeat condition asked a rival to predict the case’s variation. Rejected: the variation is four imagined speakers described by the assistant, “not an observation, so there is nothing yet for a rival to predict”. | Rejected |
| ARG-026 | Judged pragmatic observables that predict human judgements of fidelity or shared kind better than text similarity support the central theses of the pragmatic-transport line | The four thesis-level defeat conditions of the line share one test, CASE-184, and a pass on it was to support the theses. Rejected: two critical questions fail. Every rival account the record names also predicts a pass, so “surviving them would not tell the thesis from the functional and relevance-theoretic accounts”; and predictor and criterion share a method the baseline does not, so “the theory’s measures can win by shared method variance alone”. CASE-055 is the repair. | Rejected |
| ARG-027 | The record’s iterated-learning readings show that pragmatic stances and footing are stabilized by transmission | CLAIM-068 extends iterated learning “to speaker footing and communicative conventions”. Rejected: the record’s readings bear on lexical, structural and functional transmission, and none measures an interpersonal stance, a footing or a speech-act function along a chain. For evaluative stance CASE-068 is chain evidence, a separate line not filed here; for footing there is still no study. | Rejected |
| ARG-031 v2 | In the discriminating study, transport measures that beat the static pragmatic profile would show what the line adds to functional and relevance-theoretic accounts | CLAIM-202 says what the line adds is measured structure beyond a static pragmatic profile, and CASE-055 is the study that would test it. The open question is whether beating the static profile tells the thesis apart from its rivals: functional and relevance-theoretic accounts need not fix one context, so “an empirical victory may establish that context matters without establishing that the transport formalism makes a distinctive contribution”. Rejected on 2026-10-30: its undercutter CLAIM-205 is held. | Rejected |
| ARG-032 | The parity triangle shows that translation changes the global structure of meaning | The one instance of CLAIM-105’s headline in the record is built from CASE-037, the parity triangle, which is stipulated. A constructed model shows what it was built to show, so it is no evidence for what documented reconstruction chains commonly do. CLAIM-219’s dilemma undercuts the inference. | Rejected |
| ARG-034 v2 | Saussure’s account of value grounds the premise that significance is fixed by contrasts rather than by correspondence to a referent | The manuscript §2 cites Saussure for a sign’s “significance” depending on contrasts within a system “rather than on intrinsic correspondence to a referent”. Rejected as an inference to CLAIM-082 as titled. Saussure says purely differential only of signifier and signified taken apart, distinguishes value from signification, and brackets the referent: the fix is to say value rather than significance and drop the referent contrast. | Rejected |
| ARG-037 | The signalling counts read off Wang et al.’s appendix show that signalling is typical of language data | CLAIM-125’s version 1 read LIT-851’s appendix, “69 of the 90 systems signal”, as showing that signalling is the typical case for language data and that an extension to signalling data is not optional. The counts are plug-in estimates from one or a few occurrences per context, which signal in expectation even when the true marginals agree. CLAIM-235 undercuts the inference; CLAIM-125’s version 2 already re-grounded the point. | Rejected |
| ARG-038 | A character’s classificatory sufficiency shows that relations constitute what a communicative act is | The owner’s character analogy: a communicative kind is identified by an invariant, as a group character identifies a representation (CLAIM-137). At its strongest that gives classificatory priority, not constitution. A198 §VI: “It would be a mistake to infer the third automatically from the first two.” CLAIM-150 undercuts it. | Rejected |
| ARG-039 | The authored reconstruction chains show that lexical similarity cannot tell kept footing from a changed act | The assistant-authored chains, in which one text keeps the friend’s complicity while dropping its words, were filed as grounds for CLAIM-084. Rejected: “the retention of complicity is the author’s reading, not a measurement”. CLAIM-084 now says so itself and lists the chains only as illustrations. | Rejected |
| ARG-042 | The record’s constructions of maintained correction show that self-maintaining organizations ought to preserve their corrigibility | Filed at the owner’s question of 2026-10-31 (“no ARGs?”), under ADR-061, from the support half of CLAIM-511. The owner had asked at U24 of the exchange “Analyze nucleation concepts” whether corrigibility’s desirability had been established. The answer was no, and that answer is a verdict on support, so it is an ARG. Rejected. The constructions show what corrigibility is made of and what it costs to keep. They are equally expected whether or not it ought to be kept, so they do not bear on the conclusion. Its value is conditional (CLAIM-520, which undercuts this). | Rejected |
| ARG-045 | Simondon’s account of individuation as crystallization from a metastable state, propagating from kin to kin, supports the thesis that an argument’s later structure can evolve only on structure that persists | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-185’s note of that date). Simondon makes the growth of a crystal in a metastable solution the model of all individuation, which is the shape of CLAIM-185’s anchoring thesis. Rejected as support: the same structure, not shown to be the same mechanism; Simondon generalizes by analogy as CLAIM-185 does, and his book is unread here. | Rejected |
| ARG-046 | Tsoukas and Chia’s reading of Total Quality in the US Navy is an organizational instance of changing efficacy while the competing proposals stay fixed | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-122’s note of that date). Junior officers’ suggestions were made before and after Total Quality; afterwards they “earned legitimacy”. That looks like CLAIM-122’s case at an organization’s scale. Rejected as evidence: the new template also changed what members noticed and proposed, so the proposals were not held fixed, and the rival, a change in what was preferred, is not excluded. | Rejected |
| ARG-047 | Bencherki, Brummans and Vézy’s “agency is a matter of perspective” supports the claim that perspectival, agential and institutional boundaries need not coincide | The first filing of LIT-1902 (NOTE-1484, “Bearing on the record”) read the paper’s perspectivism as “a version of” CLAIM-418. It is not. The paper’s “perspective” (p. 1357) is the analyst’s choice of where to cut a chain of agencies, Barad’s agential cut. CLAIM-418’s is an organizational perspective, TERM-072 sense 1, which an agent may have, share or act through. The sentence bears on CLAIM-405, which says whether an individuation verdict is relative to a criterion, and not on CLAIM-418. Rejected. Where these readings do bear on CLAIM-418 is Bencherki 2017’s Table 1 (LIT-1901, p. 787), which is another source. | Rejected |
| ARG-049 | The pauses, averted gaze and reversal in the MSF transcript show internal conflict as a gap between the precedence a motive claims and the authority it is granted | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-484’s note of that date). The transcript Bencherki, Brummans and Vézy reanalyse records the marks CLAIM-484 names. Rejected as evidence: the same marks fit the paper’s reading, disindividuation before a demand from outside, and no claim or grant is recorded apart from the marks. | Rejected |
| ARG-052 | Van Lange and Bergmann’s model of intergroup cooperation does not establish that cooperation within groups and the coexistence of groups are distinct targets that can trade off: it shows that the processes building in-group cooperation can fuel conflict between groups, and says nothing on whether groups persist, go extinct or are owed impartial concern | CLAIM-547 was filed citing Van Lange and Bergmann (2026) as the evidence the synthesis offers for its human case, before the review was read. Read in NOTE-1537, the review carries one link in the claim and not the claim. Rejected as an inference to the claim as titled. The link it does carry is recorded as corroboration (THEORY-1352 corroborates CLAIM-547), and the review is no longer among the claim’s grounds. | Rejected |