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.
Philosophy of science — what science is and what its theories say about the world — realism and structural realism, explanation, causation and evidence, the interpretation of physical theories (group: philosophy).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE-084 | The perfectly accountable false theory: a community whose record traces every commitment and whose vocabulary leaves out the right explanation | A6’s third case. Accountability without correctness, one of CLAIM-299’s three separations, and A6’s “direct companion to CLAIM-181 and CLAIM-190”. | Active |
| CASE-086 | The retracted finding and its descendants: an experiment fails to replicate years after three conclusions were built on it | A7’s sixth case, filed at the owner’s U7 as an illustration and not a test (“one or two of those might be handy to keep on hand too”). Tracing descendants of a defeated premise, which CLAIM-295 says a record of dependencies supports. | Active |
| CASE-090 | The rehabilitated hypothesis: an objection that displaced a hypothesis turns out to rest on a faulty measurement, and the hypothesis can be reopened because its defeat was recorded | A7’s seventh case, the companion to CASE-086 and filed with it. Reopening an alternative when its defeater is defeated. A12’s “defeat of a defeater” is the same case and is held here, as A12 itself proposed. | Active |
| CASE-172 v2 | Federal science and education in the United States, 2025–2026: grants cancelled, frozen and in part reinstated, staff departures, advisory committees ended and research programs suspended, so that funding, organization and scientific capacity could be restored, or not, separately | The owner’s case, U4 of the exchange of 2026-10-26: “the full breadth of the harms incurred by the actions of the DOGE project, and the trump administration’s broader assault on the scientific research and education establishment”. A4 drew ten dimensions of harm and the question it took as central: “Suppose a grant is canceled and later reinstated. What, precisely, has been restored?” A case of a resource restored without the organization it supported, and of capacity lost without output falling. Not shown: the size of any loss. Every figure is the exchange’s, from reports this filing has not read. | 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 |