{"path":"research/grounding/keeper.pair.md","content":"What this project has ruled that bears on how two claims stand to each other: the same, one inside the other, opposed, overlapping, or apart, in plain words, so you know how careful the question is before you read the item:\n- Sameness is decided before any relation is written: the pairwise seven-key check runs FIRST on every candidate pair: same → a merge candidate, never an edge.\n- A machine's no-answer belongs in a gate, never on the menu beside the answers: unrelated, does not fit, cannot tell lose to positive-sounding options sitting next to them, so the refusal is asked FIRST, as its own required question whose no ends the matter, and is then absent from the list.\n- Nothing is permanently atomic: everything is currently-undecomposed, invitable deeper, and the floor is separability: decompose until nothing separable is still bundled (the founder's own criterion).\n- No verdict without its object: a machine pass answers by producing the object its verdict depends on, and a verdict that comes with no object is refused.\n- The floor is separability.\n- What a machine writes under a link is written as the smallest steps, and a step counts as smallest by two tests.\n- A link's effect has two factors: the supporting claim's own strength and the link's relevance. The founder's words: \"About the decision: your proposal is blessed, make it so.\".\n- A use is a vote on the meaning: a dispute about what a concept means has one entry point, the claim: every claim that uses a concept is one attributed use the concept layer reads; a definition is a claim on the word; and a step that bridges a sense gap (machines that run a civilisation are artificial intelligences) is an ordinary claim under the verbal-classification scheme, whose critical questions (is the definition agreed, does the case fit, is this an edge case) ARE the meaning dispute. The layer is read over uses and never written to directly, as a horizon kind is read and never set. The founder's words: \"And AM7, seems reasonable\".\n"}