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The single largest omission in a tool aimed at expert witnesses: nothing in peira knows about
order of exposure.
Every enforced gate examines a claim's content — does it declare a warrant, a falsifier, an
extension. None examines the order in which the examiner learned things, and that order is where
forensic bias has been repeatedly demonstrated. The mechanism the veil of ignorance names — judge the
rule without knowing which side you land on — is the same one Linear Sequential Unmasking applies to
casework: fix the criteria before seeing which answer they favour.
The failure has a signature. A criterion authored after the examiner has seen the evidence is a
criterion shaped to fit it, and it is indistinguishable in the finished record from one authored
before. The claim looks identical; only the sequence differs.
peira is unusually well placed here, because Criterion and Examination are already node kinds and
the 立極 gate already requires a judged_by: edge. What is missing is any notion of when.
Proposed PEIR-CRITERION-BACKDATED — a claim whose judged_by: criterion was authored after the
examination that relies on it. Requires a declared: field on Criterion and Examination, which
is an ordinary frontmatter key.
Design questions worth settling in the issue rather than in code:
What is the timestamp's warrant? A self-declared date is self-asserted evidence, and the
claim-grading standard says self-asserted claims need the direction of the assertion stated. A
hand-typed declared: is exactly as trustworthy as the author. That is still worth having — it
makes the sequence visible and falsifiable rather than absent — but the gate must not imply
more than it checks.
Absent dates must be Unassessed, never a pass. With no declared: on either node there is
nothing to compare, and the honest verdict is that the ordering was never examined.
The stronger form, deliberately out of scope for a first cut: masking — a mode that renders a
claim's evidence without the conclusions reached elsewhere in the vault. That is issue Refutation mode: fresh context is a control, not a personality #17
(refutation mode) reaching the same place from the other direction.
Source: forensic bias literature on contextual influence and sequential unmasking; the same
mechanism the veil of ignorance names in ethics. See docs/method/README.md §"the six structures"
— this is a seventh, and one the taxonomy does not currently carry.
The single largest omission in a tool aimed at expert witnesses: nothing in peira knows about
order of exposure.
Every enforced gate examines a claim's content — does it declare a warrant, a falsifier, an
extension. None examines the order in which the examiner learned things, and that order is where
forensic bias has been repeatedly demonstrated. The mechanism the veil of ignorance names — judge the
rule without knowing which side you land on — is the same one Linear Sequential Unmasking applies to
casework: fix the criteria before seeing which answer they favour.
The failure has a signature. A criterion authored after the examiner has seen the evidence is a
criterion shaped to fit it, and it is indistinguishable in the finished record from one authored
before. The claim looks identical; only the sequence differs.
peira is unusually well placed here, because
CriterionandExaminationare already node kinds andthe 立極 gate already requires a
judged_by:edge. What is missing is any notion of when.Proposed
PEIR-CRITERION-BACKDATED— a claim whosejudged_by:criterion was authored after theexamination that relies on it. Requires a
declared:field onCriterionandExamination, whichis an ordinary frontmatter key.
Design questions worth settling in the issue rather than in code:
claim-grading standard says self-asserted claims need the direction of the assertion stated. A
hand-typed
declared:is exactly as trustworthy as the author. That is still worth having — itmakes the sequence visible and falsifiable rather than absent — but the gate must not imply
more than it checks.
Unassessed, never a pass. With nodeclared:on either node there isnothing to compare, and the honest verdict is that the ordering was never examined.
claim's evidence without the conclusions reached elsewhere in the vault. That is issue Refutation mode: fresh context is a control, not a personality #17
(refutation mode) reaching the same place from the other direction.
Source: forensic bias literature on contextual influence and sequential unmasking; the same
mechanism the veil of ignorance names in ethics. See
docs/method/README.md§"the six structures"— this is a seventh, and one the taxonomy does not currently carry.