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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAIM-004 v2 | Not every difference between translations is a difference of frame: some change the act being framed | A18’s passive/active distinction, recovered. It outlived the act object it presupposed: A38 §7.2 and A40 §9.2 used it to undercut the relativity analogy. It fell out with the relativity section, which the manuscript omits, not by refutation. The manuscript’s four-way split (§4) names structural reorganization but gives no criterion. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-006 | What fundamentally distinguishes variations of a translation is the frame from which it is delivered | The owner’s first thesis (U6). Narrowed, corrected and restated in speech-act terms over A11–A14, losing “the main thing” on the way, and replaced by the manuscript’s weaker claim that proposition preservation is neither necessary nor sufficient. | Superseded — by CLAIM-061 |
| CLAIM-019 v2 | Lévi-Straussian transformational analysis, as Descola reads it and as it has been modelled computationally, is direct prior art for structural transport, not only a philosophical precursor | A102 §2, recovered: Lévi-Strauss treated myth variants as related by transformations, and “Recent computational work has explicitly modeled his analysis”. The manuscript §2 mentions Lévi-Strauss’s transformations but cites neither Descola nor the computational work. | Active |
| CLAIM-020 | A translation’s quality is the number of formal and semantic constraints it preserves | Hofstadter’s starting criterion, as A4 reports it, and the Pareto- frontier picture of fidelity around it. Refuted in the same reply by the mother’s translation. | Rejected |
| CLAIM-023 v2 | The contribution is not that translation is pragmatic or that speech acts change contexts, but a specified, testable account of which communicative distinctions a translation preserves | Disclaimed from A35 §9 on and sharpened at A40 against Gutt and Krifka. The manuscript §1 keeps it (“not the claim that each individual ingredient is novel”) and cites Gutt, but drops Krifka, whom four replies named as the closest prior art. | Active |
| CLAIM-033 v4 | In published translations, renderings that lose distinctions along one dimension commonly gain specificity along another, so loss is not one-dimensional | A75, recovered: transport maps region to region, and “the translation can broaden conceptual possibilities while narrowing interpersonal interpretation”. Dropped with the region picture’s replacement by sections, without critique. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-036 | Communicative meaning is constituted through systems of distinctions and relations, and translation transports these systems, selectively preserving or transforming their differential, probabilistic and interactional structure | A102’s thesis under U36 (“feels like there’s a connection to structuralism here”). Structuralism became the philosophical foundation; its contrast with transport was overstated and conceded at U37. | Superseded — by CLAIM-108 |
| CLAIM-051 | Fidelity is always fidelity with respect to some selected structure: a specified family of communicative observations, interventions and permitted continuations | A35 §8, “Hofstadter’s central insight at a more abstract level”, and A40’s “Revised central proposition”. The manuscript makes fidelity relative to the receiver’s decisions and states the choice of observables to be normative. | Superseded — by CLAIM-050 |
| CLAIM-053 v3 | The manuscript argues only that preserving the proposition is insufficient; that it is also unnecessary rests on an argument the exchange gave and the manuscript leaves out | The crystallized argument §1 said “not sufficient”; the manuscript §1 says “neither necessary nor sufficient”. Its own example shows only insufficiency. The case against necessity is A12’s asymmetry and A24’s compensation hypothesis, neither in the manuscript. | Superseded — by ARG-021, ARG-020 |
| CLAIM-054 | A translation can preserve interpretive content while failing as a social act: interpretive and performative fidelity come apart | A35 §7, recovered. Last present at A35; the distinction is not named again in A38–A40, which speak of social constitution and joint states instead, and “performative” does not occur in the manuscript. Apparently dropped by inadvertence, never argued against. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-055 | The pragmatic identity of an utterance is partly constituted by the context-dependent transformations it induces, so pragmatic fidelity is an approximate structure-preserving correspondence between source and target dynamics | The thesis of the U14 replies (A33–A35), which shifted the invariant from attributes to transformations. Revised at A40 into an observation-relative form, and replaced in the manuscript by the observables thesis. | Superseded — by CLAIM-083 |
| CLAIM-061 v3 | Renderings that keep the proposition can perform a different communicative act, so preserving the proposition is not sufficient for preserving the communicative event | Manuscript §1, and the Abstract’s “retain its topic while reversing the speaker’s stance, and … change almost every word while preserving the interpersonal relation”. The descendant of the owner’s frame thesis (CLAIM-006) without its ranking; the central thesis (CLAIM-115) rests on it. | Active |
| CLAIM-064 | A translation reconstructs not only what is said but the situation of its saying | A12’s one-line thesis, recovered. Last stated at A12; it fell out when the vocabulary moved to speech acts (A14) and then to observables, apparently inadvertently, never refuted. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-066 v2 | Kirby, Cornish and Smith show structure emerging under transmission with an experimenter’s filter, not filtering by measured inductive biases, and Griffiths and Kalish’s convergence to the prior holds only for sampling learners | From the readings of Griffiths and Kalish (NOTE-599) and Kirby, Cornish and Smith (NOTE-596, Skimmed). The manuscript cites them as showing one thing; they show different things. | Superseded — by ARG-035 |
| CLAIM-072 v2 | Saussure says purely differential only of signifier and signified taken apart; the sign as a whole is a positive fact, and signs stand in opposition | From the reading of the Cours (NOTE-594). The manuscript’s paraphrase is right about value and loose about difference, and Saussure’s value is distinct from signification, which the manuscript’s “significance” blurs. | Superseded — by ARG-034, ARG-033 |
| CLAIM-082 v3 | A term’s value, as distinct from its signification, is fixed by its contrasts with the coexisting terms of its system | The manuscript’s structuralist premise (§2), citing Saussure and Lévi- Strauss. CLAIM-072 corrects how it states Saussure. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-083 | Pragmatic translation fidelity is the preservation, under corresponding communicative conditions, of the ways an utterance transforms interpretation, interpersonal alignment and the possibilities for subsequent interaction | The thesis of the revised outline (A40 §XV), with A39’s operational identity: a pragmatically significant difference is a difference in the observable transitions an utterance makes possible. Superseded at A45–A48 by the outline-v3 thesis, which added learned dispositions; the chain runs on through the transport thesis to the manuscript’s. | Superseded — by CLAIM-065 |
| CLAIM-084 v2 | Lexical similarity cannot distinguish preservation of communicative footing from a change of speech-act function, so the primary outcome of a reconstruction study is pragmatic-frame retention judged blind to condition, once a measure of footing and stance has been shown reliable | A63 and A70, drawn from the authored chains. The manuscript §8 keeps it (“The structural measurements are more informative than lexical comparisons alone”) and §10 keeps independent responses and split annotators; the blinding to condition is not stated. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-090 v3 | Serial transmission is reconstructive and filtered by the transmitters’ inductive biases, so a stable endpoint can be far from the ancestral utterance while remaining interpretable | The manuscript’s §8, citing Bartlett, Griffiths and Kalish, and Kirby, Cornish and Smith together as showing the same thing. CLAIM-066 separates what each shows. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-091 v2 | A translation can reach pragmatic equivalence by compensating for changed social coordinates with changed linguistic ones, so lexical infidelity can be required for pragmatic fidelity | A24’s compensation hypothesis, recovered. Last present at A24 in owner turns U1–U13; the manuscript keeps its consequence (“change almost every word while preserving the interpersonal relation”) but not the mechanism. Apparently dropped inadvertently, never refuted. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-102 | Variations in translation are transformations between pragmatic frames of reference that preserve selected invariants of the communicative act | A18’s “structural claim”, concluded by the relativity analogy. Replaced by the manuscript’s directed, lossy transformations once the analogy’s group structure was undercut and the frame-independent act dropped. | Superseded — by CLAIM-098 |
| CLAIM-115 v3 | What survives translation is the set of communicative distinctions and relations a receiving system can still reconstruct and act upon, not the wording or the proposition | The manuscript’s central thesis (Abstract, §1, §12). It does not say every relation must survive, or that there is one privileged set of observables: the choice of observables and decision tasks is stated to be normative and contestable (§11). | Superseded — by CLAIM-220 |
| CLAIM-222 v2 | No design in the programme includes an interlingual translation, and the defeat conditions are disjunctive, so English retellings and model chains could settle a thesis about what survives translation | Found in the record’s audit of the line on 2026-10-10 (empirical lens). The workbench entry for 2026-10-10 notes that the title’s question “is left with no translated text in the programme”; no CLAIM says it, and none draws the consequence. Every stimulus set the designs name is English, or names no language; Villon→Henley and Marot→Hofstadter never enter a design. CLAIM-115’s defeat condition ranges over “translations, retellings or cross-modal renderings”, so a result on English paraphrase alone can meet it. It does not say intralingual results are irrelevant. | Active |
| CLAIM-242 v3 | The use-level counterpart of Saussure’s value is an utterance’s contrast with the alternatives its speaker could have used in context; values do not cross between languages, which is why fidelity is graded transport through an anchored correspondence rather than identity of value | The record’s reply, on 2026-10-10, to CLAIM-254. It grants the objection’s premises: value is internal to one language state, and it is a fact of langue, while the line’s observables are facts of use. It denies the conclusion. What the premise rules out is identity of value across languages, which the line does not claim (CLAIM-106), and transport through a correspondence fixed from outside both systems is what CLAIM-082’s own qualification already requires. At the level of use, contrast with alternatives is the rational-speech-act model’s premise (THEORY-172) and Bergen, Goodman and Levy’s finding (LIT-809). Saussure becomes precedent, not premise. A proposal, not a refutation. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-254 v2 | Read as the Saussure correction has it, the structuralist premise argues against transport: value is internal to one language state, so what can cross between languages is signification, the aspect the premise demotes | Found in the record’s audit of the line on 2026-10-10 (structure lens); no turn of the exchange raises it. CLAIM-072 corrects the manuscript’s Saussure to value and says the correction “does not undercut the manuscript’s use”. But value is fixed inside one language state, so a change of language is a change of the system that fixes every value, and Saussure’s own example has a term and its translation share a signification and differ in value. Value is also a fact of the language system, while the line’s observables are facts of utterances in use. The objection is open. It does not say relational identity is false, only that Saussure, read correctly, does not support its transport. | Superseded — by ARG-033 |
| CLAIM-486 v2 | A rendering can keep the communicative act while changing the proposition, so preserving the proposition is not necessary for preserving the communicative event | The necessity half of CLAIM-061’s version 1, split off when the status review of 2026-10-28 narrowed CLAIM-061 to sufficiency (ADR-047’s third ruling). Its one documented case is Phillips’s handshake for Paul’s holy kiss (CASE-056), which competent judges took to keep the greeting. The defender of necessity has a reply the record does not answer: the proposition worth keeping is the coarser one, and the handshake keeps it. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-489 v2 | A sign’s communicative significance is fixed by its contrasts within a system rather than by correspondence to a referent | CLAIM-082’s version 1 title, kept as its own Proposed entry when the sixth status review narrowed CLAIM-082 to what Saussure’s value supports (ADR-047’s third ruling). It carries the two parts the reading does not: that significance in use is fixed this way, and that contrast works instead of reference rather than alongside it. | Rejected |