Lines of inquiry — A named line of the record’s own argument, so that a line can be set aside as a whole and what depends on it can be found. Retracting a line is a status change on its members, never a deletion (ADR-032).
Contextual pragmatic information transport — what survives when an utterance is translated, retold or rendered in another medium — communicative identity as relationally organized observables, and fidelity as directed, task-relative transport between observational systems.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE-001 | Two reset matrices: noncommuting and classical | A30: on a two-state classical system, A resets to state 1 and B to state 2; AB = A and BA = B, so AB ≠ BA, and every state is an ordinary probability vector. Order dependence without nonclassical probability. | Active |
| CASE-004 | Two people, an empty wallet: shared complicity, normative authority, and an underspecified relation | A97’s prompt conditions for the text-to-image case: the same objects with different interpersonal configurations. Conditions A and B are the manuscript’s §7 example; condition C, the natural control, was dropped. | Active |
| CASE-005 | The language-model experiments: frame commutator, trajectory-preserving selection, ICL against TTT | A45 §5, kept in outlines v3 and v4: order effects of opposed versus independent framings in an LLM, a comparison of three ways of choosing a translation against human judgement, and prompt-only versus test- time-trained adaptation. Proposed, not run. | Active |
| CASE-008 v2 | Solidarity, condemnation and humour judged in pairs: the probabilistic version | A24: three judgements of Henley’s poem, S (solidarity), M (condemnation), H (humour), elicited in pairwise contexts, asking whether the pairwise distributions are marginals of one global distribution. Replaced in the manuscript by a deterministic parity example. | Superseded — by CASE-035 |
| CASE-009 | Text → image → caption → image chains under four conditions | A97 §6: compare text-only, image-only, alternating, and alternating with explicit preservation of pragmatic constraints. The manuscript’s Case III keeps alternating against text-only. Proposed, not run. | Active |
| CASE-010 | Henley’s rendering of Villon, “Booze and the blowens cop the lot” | W. E. Henley’s rendering of a Villon ballade into nineteenth-century English thieves’ slang, refrain “Booze and the blowens cop the lot” (U3). Already a radical translation, and deliberately opaque. The source of the manuscript’s refrain family (§1, §10). | Active |
| CASE-011 | Hofstadter’s mother’s translation | A rendering of Marot that broke most of the formal constraints and that Hofstadter came to judge perhaps the best. Refutes fidelity as a count of preserved constraints (A4). Absent from the manuscript. | Active |
| CASE-012 | The modernized refrains of Henley’s Villon | Invented modern refrains for Henley’s ballade (A6–A9), each a different speaker: “You blow it all on sex and booze”, “By Monday morning, you’re broke again”, “The party always gets its cut”, “The high life eats your paycheck”. Two survive as the manuscript’s opening example (§1). | Active |
| CASE-015 | The telephone game | The owner’s case at U20: a message passed along a chain stays recognizable while drifting. Shows similarity, not equivalence, as the working notion, and opened the serial-reconstruction line (A50, outline v4’s running case B, the manuscript’s §8 and Case II). | Active |
| CASE-017 | E1: synthetic three-state stochastic computations (C2–C3) | Run at U23 (“run it”): hand-chosen row-stochastic matrices on three abstract states, seed 20261008, “not fitted to text, pretrained models, or human measurements”. Executed; results are exact properties of the chosen matrices. None reached a later draft. | Active |
| CASE-018 | ”You blow it all on sex and booze”, said by a friend, a parent, a judge, a comedian | The same sentence attributed to different speakers (A12, A18, A24): one teases, another reproaches, another condemns, another entertains. Words held fixed, act changed. Survives as the joke/reprimand contrast (§2) and the social-alignment manipulation of Case III (§10). | Active |
| CASE-019 | ”Hug from Doug” | A rendering of Marot that puts the translator’s name in the slot where Marot put his own. Wrong as a historical translation, right as a relation. The exchange’s first statement of relational invariance (A4). | Active |
| CASE-020 | E3: the controlled inference harness, dry run only (C5) | Built at U25: four frame conditions (stable complicit, neutral, moralizing; shifting), 12 reset chains each, 5 generations, 240 calls, gpt-4.1-mini at temperature 0.7, seed 1729. Only a dry run was executed: “No model-generated observations were recorded.” The design is the manuscript’s Case II. | Active |
| CASE-021 | Wording, attributed speaker and judgement order: the proposed factorial study | Proposed at A21 and refined at A24, not run: Henley renderings × attributed speaker × order of judgement questions, with hierarchical, sequential state-update and quantum models compared. Becomes the manuscript’s Case I (§10). | Active |
| CASE-022 | A rendering that keeps the solidarity–criticism ambiguity open, and one that settles it | A34 §4 and A48 §7.5: two renderings with similar static profiles, one of which stays sensitive to a later affiliative framing because it sustains the ambiguity, while the other has already fixed the speaker as condemning. The concrete mechanism behind dynamical fidelity; dropped at outline v4. | Active |
| CASE-026 | Modern slang that makes the insider sound like an outsider imitating the subculture | A35 §7: replacing Henley’s argot with contemporary slang may keep the poem intelligible while making the speaker sound like an outsider, so the audience understands the observation and loses the complicity. Interpretive fidelity kept, performative fidelity lost. | Active |
| CASE-027 | Henley translated perfectly in the voice of an academic sociologist | A12’s thought experiment: every term rendered exactly, every proposition kept, but the speaker made to sound like an academic sociologist. Something fundamental has changed, so keeping the proposition is not sufficient. | Active |
| CASE-029 | The dynamical-fidelity research programme of the outlines (A35, A38, A40) | The factorial study grown into a programme over three replies: initial state and three model classes (A35), matched and divergent stimulus pairs (A38), pilot validation, classical baselines first and five falsifiers (A40). Proposed, not run. | Active |
| CASE-030 | E2: assistant-authored reconstruction chains with content-word overlap (C4) | Run at U24 (“do it”): three four-generation chains written by the assistant from a modernized Villon seed, scored by content-word Jaccard against the seed. The texts are authored with their intended trajectories; the numbers are exact properties of those texts. | Active |
| CASE-031 | Marot’s “A une Damoyselle malade” and Hofstadter’s translations of it | A sixteenth-century get-well poem whose content is trivial and whose form is everything, translated dozens of ways by Hofstadter and others. The exchange’s founding case, and the manuscript’s opening one (§1). | Active |
| CASE-032 | E4: within-session chains, stable complicit against a shift to moral instruction | Run after the owner’s U26 (“lol you ARE a text generation action. just delegate subtasks”): two three-generation chains written by the assistant in the same context. “The measured lexical similarities are near zero for both final texts”; one keeps complicity, the other becomes advice. | Active |
| CASE-035 | Solidarity, condemnation and humour: the parity obstruction | The manuscript’s §3 version: S = M, M = H and H ≠ S are each satisfiable in its own context but admit no global assignment. Stated to demonstrate an obstruction, not to describe actual judgements. | Active |
| CASE-037 | The parity triangle with uniform weights: a no-signalling, strongly contextual model beside a family of point sections that glues | CASE-035’s constraints given probabilities, at A129 §2, and set beside a deterministic family on the same cover that glues to (0, 1, 0). It shows that the obstruction is in the supports, not in the event sheaf. It appears three times (A129 §2, A161, A178’s negative control), so it gets a code. | Active |
| CASE-038 v2 | TV Tropes: a community-curated catalogue of narrative tropes and their instances, such as the Gilligan Cut | The owner proposed it at U44 as a reference case. A155 read a trope as a relational pattern recognized across changes of characters, medium and wording, and pointed to Gala et al.’s dataset as a large set of instances already annotated. A191 §8 added five manipulations of one trope, the Gilligan Cut. v7 (A178) makes it Study B, and A218 keeps it as Study 5. The first time the thing turns up in the record. The catalogue is documented; the experiments on it are proposals. | Active |
| CASE-039 | Who crosses the meeting point first? Two craft near light speed, and the relativity of simultaneity | The owner’s U47: two craft approach each other near light speed, and each frame is said to answer that it crosses the meeting point first, so the local interpretations cannot be glued. A164 corrected the physics. Read either way, the owner’s own scenario has an invariant answer; only spacelike-separated events change order between frames, and there the frames are reconciled by a Lorentz transformation. Standard special relativity; the scenario is the owner’s. | Active |
| CASE-040 | Topic and act crossed: a factorial design that decorrelates what a text is about from what it does | A214 §8’s design, which A218 names as the first experiment to run: topic (spending, relationships) crossed with act (teasing, reprimand), with lexical, judgement, uptake and intervention data, several factorizations, and four outcomes reported separately. A210 §5 gives a cross-corpus version. Proposed by the assistant; not run. | Active |
| CASE-041 v2 | FID and Projected GANs: one ImageNet-trained probe family used both to train a generator and to evaluate it | The owner pointed to FID at U50 and proposed FID with Projected GANs as a paired case study at U51. A184 framed the pair: FID evaluates a distribution through probes, and Projected GANs learn one under pressure from probes. The anthology’s readings supply the fact the exchange lacked. The Projected GAN discriminator is ImageNet-trained, FID’s features are ImageNet class evidence, and Kynkäänniemi et al. show that such a generator can match FID while doing worse in an independent feature space and with human judges. | Active |
| CASE-042 v2 | Collaborative filtering and topic models: latent relational structure recovered from interaction matrices, up to gauge, or uniquely under anchor conditions | Proposed as a laboratory by the owner at U57 and conceded as prior art after the owner’s U58. Collaborative filtering recovers a user–item matrix’s predicted relations with latent coordinates fixed only up to an invertible change; topic models recover individual topics only under nonnegativity plus separability or anchor-word conditions. It shows that recovery is possible and limited, not that a recovered component is a communicative kind. | Active |
| CASE-043 | Data written for a future reader and never read | The owner’s variant of the tree in the woods (2026-10-11). Someone writes a record (a note, a log, a letter, a backup) for a reader they expect, and it is never read. Unlike the tree, the write was made for someone. Used to separate when a message’s intended meaning is fixed from when its fidelity is measured. | Active |
| CASE-048 v2 | The same film joke, seen as a child and again as an adult | The owner’s case (2026-10-11): one person watches a scene in a family film or show as a child and again as an adult, and the joke means something different the second time. The artefact is unchanged, and so is the person in the sense of numerical identity. Only the receiver’s state has changed. It is a test for whether meaning is fixed at the write or made at the read. | Active |
| CASE-049 | A tree falls in the woods with no one to hear it | The old puzzle, filed so its variants have something to vary. A physical event happens with no perceiver. Whether it “made a sound” turns on whether sound means the vibration or the hearing. Nothing in it was made for anyone, and that is the respect the storage variant changes. | Active |
| CASE-053 | Contextuality tests on human meaning and judgement data: a held null, and positive results that miss pragmatic content or power | The published tests of contextuality proper on elicited human judgements, read together. The null that meets every condition is the record’s own LIT-264: attitudinal and lexical data, none contextual under Contextuality-by-Default. Wang’s thesis adds a Bell-type null on meaning judgements. The positive results miss a condition: Cervantes and Dzhafarov’s “Snow Queen” is contextual with high reliability but its content is instructed attribute matching, and Lo, Sadrzadeh and Mansfield’s Winograd schemas have the right content but a violation of about one standard deviation. No contextual pragmatic data are documented; “none in behavioural data” is too broad. | Active |
| CASE-054 v2 | Joking relationships: one kind among the Crow and in Africa with no route between them, descended between Crow and Hidatsa, and a transported tale beside them | Radcliffe-Brown defined the joking relationship as one comparative kind and placed the Crow joking-relative and Dogon and Thonga joking in it; no historical route joins the Crow to West or South-East Africa. Lowie records the same institution among the Hidatsa, a division of the Crow’s parent tribe, and Tehrani’s phylogeny confirms an Ibo “Little Red Riding Hood” as an oral translation of the European tale. Kind without transport, kind with descent, and a transport, on documented material, for CLAIM-210. Partial: independence is a fact of geography no source states, and the kind is an analyst’s. | Active |
| CASE-055 | The discriminating fidelity study: renderings built to dissociate wording, proposition, static stance and transport structure, judged by named populations in two languages on stated tasks | A proposed study, filed on 2026-10-10 as the record’s repair of CLAIM-233, CLAIM-232, CLAIM-244, CLAIM-226, CLAIM-222 and CLAIM-227. It restores CASE-005’s three-way selection with human receivers, and adds a proposition-plus-force rival, a behavioural task-indexed criterion, predictors rated by other raters, named populations, an interlingual arm and a measurement stage. It has not been run, and its margins are not yet fixed. | Active |
| CASE-056 v2 | J. B. Phillips’s “hearty handshake all round” for Paul’s “holy kiss”, and Nida’s judgement that it keeps the greeting | Phillips renders all five New Testament “holy kiss” directives (Romans 16:16 and four parallels) as handshakes, which changes what the congregation is told to do; Nida (1964, p. 160) holds this up as equivalent effect, and the UBS handbooks call it a brave attempt. The documented case for the necessity half of CLAIM-061, on expert judgement rather than reader evidence. The same handbooks document the sufficiency half: where kissing is amorous, a literal “kiss” changes the act. | Active |
| CASE-057 | Swapping the two persons of a dyad: nonreciprocal T/V address is changed by the swap and reciprocal address is not, with a constructed French–English dyad and a three-person teasing round | Built on a documented distinction. In Brown and Gilman’s account of T/V address, power address is nonreciprocal (the superior says T and receives V) and solidarity address is reciprocal, so swapping the two persons changes the first act and leaves the second fixed. Two constructions extend it. A master-and-servant dyad in French and in modern English is changed by the swap in one realization and fixed by it in the other. A three-person teasing round gives a group whose automorphism can swap characters, so the anchoring of CLAIM-249 has work to do. | Active |
| CASE-058 | FactBank’s source-relative factuality labels and Kiesling et al.’s stance-triangle annotation: one stance construct annotated reliably, the interpersonal ones not | FactBank labels one event’s factuality separately for each source that reports it, so a proposition held fixed gets different commitment labels by source, and trained annotators agree at κ = 0.82. Kiesling et al. annotate Du Bois’s stance triangle in Reddit threads, including an investment dimension defined as the split of animator from principal, and reach only α = 0.40 to 0.57, with investment and alignment below 0.4 outside one community. Together they bracket an answer to QUESTION-076: commitment relative to a source is annotatable when defined by tests, interpersonal stance only moderately. | Active |
| CASE-059 | Tatiana’s letter in Eugene Onegin III: вы to ты and back, lost in Kline and half kept in Spalding | Tatiana’s letter to Onegin opens with the formal вы, breaks into the intimate ты at “я твоя”, and returns to вы in its last lines; only the pronouns mark the moves. Kline (2009) has “you” throughout, so neither move is in the English; Spalding (1881) switches to “thou” and never returns. A documented candidate for the half of a change of cover in which the source decides a relational question that a rendering makes undecidable. The texts are attested and the loss is visible; native attestation is thin and there is no evidence on English readers. | Active |
| CASE-060 | Two identical unnumbered ballots in one tally: two votes that no relation in the structure of the vote tells apart | Constructed: two voters each put a single cross for the same candidate on identical, unnumbered ballot papers in one box, and both are counted. Within the relations that make a paper a vote, each bears the same relations to everything and none to the other, so they are not even weakly discernible, yet the count is two. Anchored on a documented norm that voids any paper marked so that the voter can be identified (UK RPA 1983, Sch. 1, r. 47(1)(c)). It forces the choice between CLAIM-136’s strict and weak versions, and bears on CLAIM-138. | Active |
| CASE-061 v2 | Wonder-working power: one hymn phrase in a national address, heard as faith by those who sing it and as boilerplate by others | In the State of the Union of 28 January 2003 George W. Bush said “there’s power, wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people”, lifting the refrain of an 1899 gospel hymn verbatim. Churchgoers who knew the hymn heard the power of Christ; others heard boilerplate; an experiment with an ingroup and a religiously diverse outgroup measured the split. The same-wording variant of CASE-064, illustrating CLAIM-224 without translation. | Active |
| CASE-062 | Simplified texts for restricted and for full readers: a gain and a loss documented on different texts, documented nulls and a reversal, and a design that tests both on the same renderings | A constructed study, built on documented halves. Simplified texts, made from the source alone, raised comprehension for named restricted readers (adults and adolescents with autism; weaker second-graders), and automatic simplifications lowered it for fluent native readers, but in different studies on different texts. Edited subtitles did not help deaf viewers, and text reduction in captions helped the more proficient readers more. The stipulated design puts both populations on the same renderings, with probe items fixed in advance as answerable from both versions or from the original only. | Active |
| CASE-063 | The English localization of Ace Attorney: a Japanese courtroom game moved to an alternate Los Angeles, with “textually accurate” set against “emotionally accurate” by its localizer | Capcom’s Gyakuten Saiban (2001) became Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005) by moving the courtroom from Japan to Los Angeles. Its second localizer, Janet Hsu, names two fidelity targets in print, “textually accurate” against “emotionally accurate”, and states the correspondence of situations she works to, an alternate Los Angeles where the California Alien Land Law of 1913 “was never passed”. The first, Alexander O. Smith, states the criterion for re-performance. The reception is contested on record. No reader has been asked a report question and a re-performance question about the same lines. | Active |
| CASE-064 | Lindsey Stone’s Arlington photograph: one post, taken by friends as a tasteless in-joke and by strangers as contempt | In 2012 Lindsey Stone posed at Arlington National Cemetery mock-shouting and giving the finger beside a “Silence And Respect” sign, part of a running joke of photos that disobeyed signs. Friends who knew the joke called it tasteless; four weeks later strangers read the same post as contempt for the war dead, and she lost her job. A change of audience with no translation and the token unchanged, illustrating CLAIM-224. Partial: the token is a photograph, not wording. | Active |
| CASE-065 | Two satisfaction questions in German and in a back-translated Chinese version: an order effect that reverses across a rendering, with the Clinton–Gore poll as the scale of the 2ε bound | Haberstroh, Oyserman, Schwarz, Kühnen and Ji (2002), Experiment 2, asked German and Chinese students the same two satisfaction questions, in a back-translated Chinese version, in both orders. The part–whole correlation depends on order in the German administration and reverses in the Chinese one, and the authors explain it by a pragmatic mechanism. Only correlations are reported, so the case shows the bound’s contrapositive in kind, not in number. Moore’s Clinton–Gore poll, held through LIT-834, supplies the number: an order effect of total variation about 0.095, against a sampling floor of about 0.03 per order at poll sizes, so 2ε is about as large as the effect it would certify. | Active |
| CASE-066 | Dolly’s slip into ты in Anna Karenina I.4, and three English translations that carry it three ways | In Anna Karenina I.4 Dolly says one sentence to Stiva with ты amid вы, and the narrator says so. English has no live T/V pronoun. Dole (1886) keeps the Russian word and glosses it; Garnett (1901) adds “Stiva”; the Maudes (1918) add “our children”. The later two add words not in the Russian to carry the relation. Tolstoy himself says вы and its dictionary equivalent vous differ in coldness. A documented instance of the compensation mechanism; the evidence on what readers recover is translators’ and the author’s, not readers’. | Active |
| CASE-067 | The reception of Deborah Smith’s The Vegetarian: the Booker judges’ task, the Korean critics’ task, and one critic’s two verdicts | Deborah Smith’s English version of Han Kang’s 채식주의자 won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, while Korean critics published lists of errors and charged it with embellishment. Each side’s task is stated in print: the judges evaluate “the finished English-language work on their own terms”, while assessment in Korea “does usually involve comparison”. Charse Yun perceives what both sides perceive and gives two verdicts by changing task. Part of the split is access, not weight: some errors are invisible to readers without Korean. | Active |
| CASE-068 | Risk messages passed down diffusion chains: the evaluative signal kept and amplified while the content decays (Moussaïd, Brighton and Gaissmaier; Jagiello and Hills) | In two serial-reproduction experiments on risk messages, each link’s message was coded for content and, on a separate scheme, for the evaluative stance of its statements toward the hazard. Content got shorter, less accurate and more divergent; the evaluative signal survived and drifted negative, and re-exposure to the balanced source did not undo the drift. The transmitters’ own risk perception, measured by questionnaire, predicts the direction of the change. Documented chain evidence for evaluative stance; none for footing. | Active |
| CASE-069 v2 | Labov’s recorded sounding sessions: ritual insult turning personal, with the same exchange shape and a different act | Labov’s team taped sounding among Harlem peer groups. Boot answers David’s taunt with a remark “related to A-5 in exactly the way that one sound is related to another”, yet both are taken as personal insults: denied, objected to, wept over. Labov’s rule puts the difference in a further relation, the shared knowledge before an audience that the proposition is untrue. A documented, non-institutional case for CLAIM-151 in which the act follows a relation among the parties, and for CLAIM-138, since the exchange relations alone match and the acts still differ. | Active |
| CASE-070 | Voita, Sennrich and Titov’s BLEU-tied translation systems that differ on keeping ты or вы across sentences | Two English-to-Russian subtitle translation systems score the same BLEU (32.40 and 32.38, not significantly different). On a contrastive test built from held-out films, which asks whether a system keeps the T or V form of “you” consistent across sentences, one is at chance (50.0%) and the other is right in 81.6% of cases. A documented instance, on a pragmatic distinction, of two realizations equal under a standard probe family and different under an independently built one. An ML paper that neither record holds. | Active |
| CASE-071 v2 | Kovacs, Deutsch and Freitag’s metric bias in MBR decoding: translations a metric selects, that the metric and its neighbours rate better and human raters do not | Minimum Bayes risk and quality-estimation decoding pick, from 128 sampled translations, the one a neural metric scores best. That metric and other neural metrics rate the picks significantly better than greedy decoding; human MQM raters find them no better, and for four system and language-pair combinations significantly worse. CASE-041’s result in text, by selection rather than training. The distinction lost is accuracy, not a pragmatic one; a stipulated English-to-Russian ты/вы variant states the design that would make it pragmatic. | Active |
| CASE-072 | Hafez’s “Shirazi Turk” in English: one ungendered beloved rendered as a maid, as God and as a boy | The opening of Hafez’s ghazal 3 names a beloved, “that Shirazi Turk”, whose sex and nature the Persian leaves open. English forces a choice at the first possessive. Jones (1771) and Bell (1897) make the beloved a maid, Clarke (1891) makes it God, and Davis (2012) makes it a boy, and Davis says in print that his choice is arbitrary. A documented instance of the half of a change of cover in which the rendering decides what the source left open. The disagreement on the source is among translators and scholars; no reader agreement has been measured. | Active |
| CASE-073 | The Kia Provo: one concept-car name, a blank coinage to the motor press and taken as honouring the IRA in Northern Ireland | In March 2013 Kia showed a concept car at Geneva named the Provo, “from the word ‘provoke’”. The motor press found no meaning in the name; in Northern Ireland, where “Provo” names a member of the Provisional IRA, six MPs said it “has caused deep offence”. Kia said it meant no offence, and withdrew the name for the UK and Ireland. One name, the speaker’s intention fixed and declared, a new audience, and an unintended reading taken up and acted on: the accidental, verbal variant of CASE-064, illustrating CLAIM-224. | Active |
| CASE-121 | One melody from a 1951 gospel record to a 2005 Katrina protest song: “I’ve Got a Savior”, “I Got a Woman”, “Gold Digger” and “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”, each link a different relation, the message turned at every step | Boyle’s chain in The Public Domain, ch. 6 (LIT-1301). The Bailey Gospel Singers’ “I’ve Got a Savior” (c. 1951), reworded by Ray Charles as “I Got a Woman” (1955), re-sung by Jamie Foxx as the licensed hook of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” (2005), looped from that recording by The Legendary K.O. for a Katrina protest song. The melody and phrase pattern carry through; the object of praise turns from a saviour to a generous woman, a mercenary one, then a president’s indifference. Each link is a different relation: rewording, licensed re-performance, sampling. The received origin story was wrong, and the melody found the real source. | Active |
| CASE-122 | Warhol’s Orange Prince, licensed to Condé Nast in 2016 from a 1981 Goldsmith photograph: the Supreme Court judged the use by its purpose and the dissent by its meaning, and the same cover came out a substitute on one test and a new work on the other | Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (2023), read in NOTE-1019. The experts agreed Warhol’s silkscreen changed the photograph’s meaning, from Prince’s private identity to his public image. The majority held that this did not matter for the use at issue: a magazine cover illustrating a story about Prince serves substantially the photograph’s own purpose, and new meaning counts only as evidence of a different purpose. The dissent measured what the copier added. One rendering, two measures of what it changed, two verdicts. | Active |
| CASE-152 | Absent attempt or unresponsive receiver: with Y ∼ N(ab, 1), a the strength of an attempted influence and b the receiver’s responsiveness, the settings (a, b) = (0, 1) and (1, 0) give the same response distribution; K(a, b) = a²b²/2, the Fisher matrix has rank at most one and vanishes at the origin, and the real log canonical threshold is ½ with multiplicity 2, not the regular d/2 = 1, while changing b with a held fixed separates the two | The construction from the exchange of 2026-10-24 (workbench entry of 2026-10-24, U27), checked when filed. A two-parameter response model in which the observation depends on a product, the smallest singular model with a communicative reading. It shows a missing response failing to say whether nothing was attempted or nothing was taken up. | Active |
| CASE-184 | The central defeat test as stated: human judgements of fidelity or shared kind, predicted by the theory’s judged measures against a text-similarity baseline | The test that the defeat conditions of CLAIM-115, CLAIM-139, CLAIM-005 and CLAIM-078 share, filed as one design so that an argument can start from it. The criterion is human judgements of fidelity or of shared kind. The theory’s predictor is a measure of judged pragmatic observables. The rival is a text-similarity score. It has not been run, and CASE-055 is the design the record filed to repair it. | Active |
| CASE-185 | A proposed study: direct and relay translations of one set of source utterances through three languages, to find whether agreement between the routes, the task-relative loss on each route, and the preservation of response to later framing come apart, and whether correspondences fitted between the communities’ response structures on some items predict receivers’ judgements on held-out items, translators and situations | Put together from A4 §6, A5 §5 and A6’s synthesis of the exchange “Paper assessment” (2026-10-28 to 29), which proposed carrying LIT-1820’s comparison of alternative paths into CASE-055 as independent translation routes. It adds to CASE-055 a relay arm, a path-discrepancy readout set beside the task loss, two negative controls, and an arm that fits correspondences between the communities’ response matrices and scores them on held-out data. Not run; every margin is left to a preregistration. | Active |