Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Causality — causation and the structure of causal relations — causal order, definite and indefinite, and its combinatorics, topology and geometry; sheaf- and process-theoretic accounts of causality; causal models, causal inference and interventionist accounts of what a causal relation is; and the metaphysics of causation — exclusion, mental causation, causal emergence and closure, reciprocal causation (ADR-035).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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-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-041 | From the effective-information bound and its ties to proportionality: a gain that depends on the intervention distribution is not a property of the system, the coarse-grainings that lose nothing are, and the coarsest of them is where the causes are | How the record went from THEORY-787, Hoel, Albantakis and Tononi’s causal emergence, to CLAIM-497, proportionality. Two results the record derived on 2026-10-29 are applied to the question of where a system’s causes are. One is the bound (THEORY-1167). The other is its ties, which are causal feature learning’s partitions (THEORY-1169). One further premise is interpretive: that the coarsest lossless description is the causal one. Proposed for that premise. | Proposed |
| ARG-050 | An intervention that disables a production pathway inside a declared boundary, or interrupts an outside controller, locates the producer of a maintained organization, because the pathway causes the capacities with a delay and can be intervened on surgically, so the fat-handedness of interventions on wholes does not reach the inference | Filed on reading the fat-handedness debate after Craver (Baumgartner & Gebharter 2016, Baumgartner & Casini 2017, Baumgartner, Casini & Krickel 2020). The doubt: since every intervention on a whole also acts on its parts along another path, intervention data cannot show what a whole consists in, so they might not show where maintenance is realized either. Answered: CLAIM-522’s interventions act on diachronic causes, not on a whole and its parts at a time, so the inference holds. Its weakest step is the boundary, which the inference takes as declared and no intervention supplies. | Active |