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.
Social science — economics, psychology, anthropology and sociology — empirical and theoretical work on people and societies that is not law or policy.
15 of 547 CLAIM documents. Back to the full index.
| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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-196 | A person’s roles in contexts that do not meet cannot contradict one another: role conflict needs an overlap, which segregating audiences prevents and collapsed contexts create | The MoM manuscript models a person’s roles (“daughter”, “teacher”, “friend”) as sections over family, professional and social contexts, with identity as their global section, failing when the roles contradict. Roles in contexts that do not meet glue (CLAIM-197), so contradiction between them is not yet a failure. Conflict needs an overlap: an occasion on which two audiences are present at once. People manage the cover. They segregate audiences, which keeps the contexts disjoint, and they script the occasions where audiences must meet. Broadcast and networked media collapse contexts, which creates overlaps the person did not choose (boyd 2008, after Meyrowitz 1985). | Proposed |
| CLAIM-226 v2 | The defeat tests pool unnamed judges and treat their disagreement as noise, though the theory makes the act partly constituted by its audience; for historical sources there is no source audience at all, and for interlingual ones population differences are read as distortion | Found in the record’s audit of the line on 2026-10-10 (empirical lens); no turn of the exchange raises it. A theory on which the act depends on its audience predicts structured variation between judges, so averaging a convenience sample measures an unnamed population’s act. The source term of D(τ) for Villon, Henley or Marot can only be a modern reading, and for a live interlingual case the source and target judges are different communities, so the distance confounds population with transport. CLAIM-074 says fidelity differs across interpreters, as a thesis; it is not applied to the tests. It does not say cross-population fidelity is meaningless. | Active |
| CLAIM-234 v3 | The record’s iterated-learning readings bear on lexical, structural and functional transmission, and none measures stance, footing or speech-act function along a chain | Found in the record’s audit of the line on 2026-10-10 (empirical lens); no turn of the exchange raises it. CLAIM-068 extends iterated learning “to speaker footing and communicative conventions”, and no reading the record holds measures a stance or a speech-act function under transmission. Bartlett is unread, and the transmission-chain work on social and affective content is not in the record. Granted: it is a reading of the record. It is minor because CLAIM-068 is off the central chains, and it does not say stances are not stabilized by transmission. | Superseded — by ARG-027 |
| CLAIM-274 v2 | Participation on a shared canvas thins selectively: people keep coming back while art they invested in survives, so unaffiliated corruption falls over the event and the remaining participants are weighted toward maintainers, a cooling schedule the population produces for itself | The owner’s correction to CLAIM-273. Over days, random participation is a real decay, and it is not constant. Uninvested participants drop out, and invested ones stay while their art persists, which “creat[es] a survival function that biases towards user’s sustaining participation if the art they are invested in persists”. So the “temperature” of random corruption is high early and low late. This is a feedback from pattern to flow, and it answers QUESTION-085 in part. Untested on the logs. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-317 v2 | Self-presentations that differ by audience do no harm while the audiences are kept apart; people keep them apart and script the occasions where they must meet, and broadcast and networked media bring them together unchosen, which is when the presentations collide | Split from CLAIM-196 under ADR-043: the empirical half of that claim, the sociology of audiences on which its sheaf reading rests. Its evidence is boyd (2008, read in part in NOTE-710), after Meyrowitz (1985), and one documented collapse, CASE-064. boyd’s claims about collapse are documented with interviews and examples, not measured, and the Carmichael case reaches the record secondhand, so it stays Proposed. It says nothing about overlaps, covers or gluing; that is CLAIM-196’s. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-415 v5 | A person can be organized by a judgement they attribute to a collective that does not hold it: the audience in a self-model can be a false unity, and a judgement can shape a person who rejects it, because resisting it makes it consequential | From the owner’s U39 of the exchange of 2026-10-22: how an individual’s perspective is shaped by “the perception of a plurality of opinion where one may not exist (e.g. because of a loud minority)”, and the phrase “I am whatever you say I am”. A39: “An individual’s perspective can be reorganized by what they believe other people’s perspectives are—even when those other perspectives have been misperceived or scarcely exist.” A40 drew the extension of CLAIM-355: “The imagined social audience may also be organized into a false unity.” The edge: the attributed collective attitude itself is already held (List’s falsely attributed common attitudes, CASE-104); what is new is its place in a person’s own organization. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-416 v4 | Competing perspectives compete over the tests that measure them as well as under them: success under an evaluative regime is evidence of competence relative to that regime, a fair test need not be neutral across competences, and a perspective that gains influence over the test can change what later success shows | From the owner’s case at U35 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, rival schools of martial arts vying for dominance, and A35–A37’s development of it. A35: “Competition selects perspectives, but perspectives also shape what competition selects for.” A37: “Being effective under a test is not the same as possessing authority to determine what the test should measure.” It is the one mechanism in the second half of the exchange the record did not already hold in some form. The edge: it does not say that tests are unfair or that rules are changed in order to entrench, which A36 kept apart as a further claim needing its own evidence. | Active |
| CLAIM-421 v4 | The cessation of an organizational perspective’s enactment need not imply the loss of the dispositions, capacities or reproductive relationships from which it can be reinstated: an interruption can be of activation (the disposition is held but not engaged or retrievable), of enactment (held, but the material, institutional or social conditions for exercising it are gone) or of reproduction (held by some bearers, but the processes that pass it on are damaged), and temporary unavailability is not extinction, though prolonged interruption of reproduction can end a tradition | From the branch of the exchange of 2026-10-22, at the owner’s U37: the doorway effect as perspective meeting grounded experience, and the perspectival interruptions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A37 drew the distinction the record’s account of perspective lacked, between the conditions under which a perspective is acquired or reproduced and the conditions under which it stays available. The edge: a doorway and a political revolution are not the same kind of forgetting, and the claim says only that both separate a capacity’s existence from the availability of the conditions for exercising it. | Active |
| CLAIM-425 | A perspective governs itself with respect to social judgement to the extent that it keeps access to others’ judgements of it while making their authority over its conduct depend on their grounds, not on their visibility, repetition or attributed plurality; neither absorbing every judgement nor resisting every one meets this, since both let the judgements set the terms of response | A39’s closing thesis and its fourth reading of “I am whatever you say I am”, in the exchange of 2026-10-22, filed at the owner’s request. A39: “I can recognize the judgment, investigate its grounds, and refuse to let its apparent popularity substitute for its actual credibility.” It is CLAIM-349’s keep-access, condition-authority applied to judgements of oneself, with CLAIM-415’s false audience as what it guards against. The edge: the opposite of conformity is not independence, since resisting every judgement is governed by the judgements as much as obeying them. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-426 v2 | Where a judgement’s circulation helps bring about what it says, its visibility, repetition and attributed plurality are evidence about what it will bring about, so the rule that a judgement’s authority should come from its grounds and not its visibility holds for judgements of what already is, and not without qualification for judgements of what someone or something will become | The owner, on 2026-10-23, after CLAIM-425 was filed: “this is reminding me of ‘hyperstition’”. Land’s definition (LIT-1396): “hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality.” CLAIM-425 says not to let a judgement’s popularity substitute for its credibility. For a judgement whose popularity helps make it true, popularity is evidence, about the future it is helping to make. The claim narrows CLAIM-425, it does not reverse it: visibility still does not show what was the case. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-428 | Material interdependence couples parties’ outcomes without fixing the perspective that organizes the coupling: the same dependence can be organized as mutual opportunity, as competitive vulnerability or as coercive leverage, so interdependence makes for peace to the extent that cooperation also changes which interests the parties’ institutions recognize and who holds influence over them, and payoff coupling alone does not settle which | From the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”: the owner’s U6, “maybe this is a stretch, but this seems like it could be connected to the hypothesis that trade promotes peace by coupling interests through coupled economies”. A6: “economic coupling is not the same thing as cooperative perspectival integration.” The claim is the commercial-peace debate read through CLAIM-429: trade changes the state of a relationship, and the question is when it changes the coupling. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-429 v2 | Where interpretation decides the occasions for cooperation and cooperation’s outcomes revise interpretation, an intervention can change the loop’s state or its coupling: a favourable exception changes the state and leaves the rule that judges exceptions as it was, while a change in how far outcomes may revise the governing interpretation changes the coupling, and where the coupling does not depend on the state, only the second changes how later evidence is taken | From the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, A5: “One could ask whether a perspectival invitation changes only the initial state of the system, or also changes the coupling parameters—the degree to which cooperative outcomes acquire authority over future interpretations.” And: “It is the difference between introducing a positive exception and changing how exceptions are allowed to revise the rule.” The owner took the line up at U6. The claim puts it in the terms of the record’s coupled meaning–influence model (CLAIM-297, CLAIM-330). | Active |
| CLAIM-430 | An interaction can make available a way of relating that its participants’ operative perspectives did not hold, by giving each a role to enact in it, so that taking part can come before, and help produce, the reinterpretation it later seems to express; whether the change stays with the partner, generalizes to a category, or is reproduced beyond the encounter are further questions | From the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”: the owner’s U2, asking for Franklin’s favour to be read as a “perspectival invitation”, and U4, connecting it to intergroup contact. A3: “A favor request invites its recipient to enact a relational perspective that may not yet be part of their established way of interpreting the requester.” It is CLAIM-275’s intervention before interpretation applied between people, and a candidate answer to the first half of QUESTION-259, how perspectives are generated. The phrase was coined in A3; the record had not used it before. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-445 v3 | A protective regime, in a person, an institution or a system of states, becomes self-maintaining when the interventions it authorizes shift the evidence used to judge its necessity, the authority and resources of those who judge it, the capacities of its constituents or the threat environment itself in ways that favour its continuation; this can happen when the original threat was real and the first protection apt, and it is a failure only where the regime has become less responsive to evidence that it is no longer needed | The owner’s, 2026-10-23, on the account of governance-maintained anxiety (CLAIM-446): “this seems like it would also be supported political and social scientific observations about state/societal protectionism”. Worked through the same day (workbench entry of 2026-10-24, U16) with securitization, policy feedback, emergency powers and the security dilemma. The literatures support components of the mechanism; none shows a single self-confirming loop behind every protective policy. | Proposed |