self-correction-is-exhaustive-across-lifecycle
OUT derived (depth 5)
Self-correction is exhaustive across the complete belief lifecycle: at creation time, the derive pipeline exhaustively discovers all derivable conclusions with guaranteed termination; at maintenance time, contradiction resolution and staleness detection ensure existing beliefs remain consistent and current.
Summary
The system was thought to achieve complete self-correction across a belief's entire life — catching everything derivable when beliefs are first created, and keeping them honest over time by spotting contradictions and stale evidence. This conclusion is currently retracted, meaning one or both of its supporting claims (that the derivation pipeline is truly exhaustive, or that correction spans both creation and maintenance) no longer holds, so the guarantee of end-to-end self-correction is not established.
Justifications
SL — Exhaustive derive exploration covers creation-time completeness while lifecycle-spanning contradiction and staleness correction covers maintenance-time consistency (depth-5)
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- derive-pipeline-is-exhaustive-and-terminating — The derive pipeline supports exhaustive exploration mode while guaranteeing termination: `--exhaust` enables automatic application of all discovered proposals, and depth-based cycle detection with pre-recursion memoization prevents infinite loops even when justification chains are cyclic.
- self-correction-spans-creation-and-maintenance — The system self-corrects along both temporal axes: it detects and resolves active contradictions through lifecycle-safe backtracking at derivation time, and it detects and flags source material drift through conservative staleness checking over a belief's lifetime — ensuring beliefs are correct both when first derived and as their evidential basis evolves.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- self-correction-is-exhaustive-and-self-contained — The system's self-correction is both exhaustive in scope (creation-time contradiction resolution through dependency-directed backtracking and maintenance-time staleness detection through source hash comparison) and self-contained (requiring zero external runtime dependencies) — complete autonomous consistency maintenance with no external coupling.
- self-correction-is-exhaustive-and-sustainable — Self-correction is both exhaustive in coverage (creation-time contradiction resolution via exhaustive derivation and maintenance-time staleness detection) and doubly sustainable (resource-bounded through accurate token budgets and structurally sound through unfragile architecture) — it can operate indefinitely without coverage gaps or resource exhaustion.
- source-integrity-grounds-lifecycle-self-correction — The system's lifecycle-spanning self-correction is concretely grounded in fail-safe source integrity: the end-to-end source pipeline (convention-based path resolution, collision-resistant SHA-256 hashing, comprehensive staleness detection, CI gating) provides the verification mechanism that makes maintenance-time self-correction practically achievable alongside creation-time exhaustive derivation.