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.
Linguistics — the study of language itself — morphology, lexicalism, word segmentation, syntax and semantics as linguists pose them, not as models encode them.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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-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-033 v2 | Saussure’s value, as the record reads it, supports transport of relational identity across languages | CLAIM-115’s transport rests on CLAIM-082’s structuralist premise, which draws on Saussure. CLAIM-072 said the premise survives the record’s correction to value. CLAIM-254 objected that value is fixed inside one language state, so what crosses is signification, the aspect the premise demotes, and that value is a fact of the language system while the line’s observables are facts of use. CLAIM-242 replied with a use-level counterpart of value. Open. | Proposed |
| 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-035 | Griffiths and Kalish’s convergence theorem and Kirby, Cornish and Smith’s chains show that serial transmission is filtered by the transmitters’ inductive biases | The manuscript’s §8 cites Griffiths and Kalish and Kirby, Cornish and Smith together as showing that transmission is filtered by inductive biases. They show different things. Kirby et al. measured no prior, and their structure appeared only under the experimenter’s homonym filter; Griffiths and Kalish’s convergence to the prior holds only for sampling learners. Proposed: the stable endpoint far from the ancestor survives for sampling learners, and whether people learn that way is QUESTION-137. | Proposed |
| ARG-040 v2 | In use, an utterance is interpreted by its contrast with the alternatives its speaker could have used, so what a translation must let a receiver reconstruct is those contrasts, not the wording or the proposition | A second line to CLAIM-115, independent of Saussure, filed at the owner’s direction from ARG-033’s note that CLAIM-242 “could be the premise of a second line”. It starts from contrast in use, the rational-speech-act premise (THEORY-172) and Bergen, Goodman and Levy’s finding (LIT-809), not from value in the language system. Proposed: the reference games and the alternatives they model are much narrower than translation. | Proposed |