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slug: grain-retractions
title: GRAIN Philosophy Retraction Ledger
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/grain-retractions
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# GRAIN Philosophy Retraction Ledger

## §SELF — grain-retractions

**What this page is:** the philosophy's **repair lineage** — claims held and dropped, with the objection that killed them.
**What it explains:** the protocol has receipts and repairs; the philosophy now eats the same dog food.
**Why read it:** a skeptic believes a system that can lose an argument to itself. Absence of this page was the loudest silence.

### Rules

1. **Append only.** Rows are never deleted. Corrections add rows.
2. Each row: claim once held → version → killed by → replacement or "dropped".
3. Hash-chain intent: treat this table as the human-readable sibling of invocation repairs.

### Retractions / demotions (initial seed)

| ID | Claim once held | When | Killed by | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X01 | Fixed headcounts (58 minds / 25 nodes / 130 thinkers) as load-bearing | pre-count-discipline | Objection 1 — disagreeing integers | **Retracted as claims.** Counts → queries. [Count discipline](/a/oip-count-discipline) |
| X02 | "Nature settles on eight" as natural kind without 7/9 forcing | pre-forcing | Objection 2 | **Demoted** to coarsest useful partition + forcing tables |
| X03 | Convergence word for computing lineage with total causal contact | ongoing | Objection 4 | **Demoted** to synthesis unless contact score high |
| X04 | "Survives every deflation" open universal | title of grain-8 | Objection 10 | **Retracted title.** Now: deflations we've run + fixed point |
| X05 | A8 without A5 composition | pre-prosecution | Objection 3 | **Patched** by [A8×A5](/a/oip-axiom-a8-times-a5) — silence no longer allowed |
| X06 | Philosophy–protocol fit as evidence of truth | wiring narrative | Objection 12 | **Retracted as evidence.** Reframed co-design / buildability |
| X07 | A4 injustice atom as pure discovery | A4 presentation | Objection 14 | **Demoted** to declared meta-ethical choice with rivals |
| X08 | Pattern set without rejection graveyard | catalogue presentation | Objection 9 | **Patched** by [grain-the-rejected](/a/grain-the-rejected) |

### How to retract further

File an objection → add a row here → patch or demote the claim → leave the old text only as historical revision if needed, never silent overwrite without a row.

### Links

- [Objection log pass 1](/a/oip-objection-log-eight-surfaces)
- [Objection log pass 2](/a/oip-objection-log-pass-2)
- Protocol repair: receipts with `repairs` / `repaired_by`

