derived-belief-soundness-is-llm-only
IN premise
Structural validation ensures justification references exist and are IN, but the logical soundness of the inference from antecedents to derived conclusion is validated only by the proposing LLM — no code-level check verifies that the reasoning step is logically valid.
Summary
The system can verify that a derived belief's dependencies exist and are active, but it has no way to check whether the reasoning that connects those dependencies to the conclusion actually makes sense. That logical leap is trusted entirely to the LLM that proposed it, meaning a structurally valid derivation could still be nonsensical or logically flawed without any automated safeguard catching it.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- derived-belief-pipeline-achieves-code-enforced-quality — The derived belief pipeline — creation via defensive derivation with structural validation, Jaccard retraction guards, and environment isolation, followed by independent review with scope restricted to derived beliefs and mutation gated behind dry-run — achieves completely code-enforced quality assurance including logical soundness validation, only when inference soundness checking is implemented in code rather than relying solely on LLM prompt instructions.
Details
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