premises-have-no-justifications
IN premise
A premise node is represented by an empty `justifications` list and defaults to `truth_value="IN"`; the system treats the empty-justifications case as a special unconditional belief.
Summary
Nodes without any justifications are treated as ground truths that are always considered valid. This is the foundation of the system — premises stand on their own without needing support from other beliefs, and everything else in the network ultimately traces back to these unconditional starting points.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- premise-behavior-emerges-from-absence — Premise behavior is not explicitly implemented — it emerges from three defaults: nodes with no justifications default to IN, empty antecedent lists are vacuously valid, and the system preserves a premise's current truth value rather than deriving it.
Details
| Source | entries/2026/04/23/reasons_lib-__init__.md |