# Rule set: does the cited source support the claim?

slug: ruleset-claim-support · https://miscsubjects.com/a/ruleset-claim-support · category: adjudication · tags: ruleset, adjudication, evidence, self-authored · updated 2026-07-30T00:29:39.571Z

A rule set is the load-bearing object in an adjudication, so it is published as an object: versioned, content-addressed, and citable by the exact hash a finding was made under. When these rules change, every prior finding stays legible against the rules it was actually made under.

## Provenance of these rules

Declared provenance: **self-authored**. Written by the operator of this system. A finding under self-authored rules is weaker than one made under external statutory rules, and that is declared here rather than left for a reader to discover.

A reader who does not trust this operator can price a finding by this field alone: rules written elsewhere bind harder than rules written by the party who benefits from the finding.

## Question

Does the cited source support the claim as stated?

## Rules

1. AFFIRM only if a verbatim span of the source establishes the claim as stated, without inference beyond ordinary reading.
2. DENY if the source contradicts the claim, or if the source is about a different subject than the claim asserts.
3. CANNOT_CONCLUDE if the source is silent, partial, or ambiguous, or if the claim requires facts the source does not contain. Absence of support is not contradiction.
4. A source that merely mentions the claim's topic without establishing its assertion does not support it.
5. Numbers, dates and quantities in the claim must match the source exactly to AFFIRM.
6. Quote the shortest span that carries the finding. If no span carries it, SPAN is NONE.

## Permitted verdicts

`AFFIRM` · `DENY` · `CANNOT_CONCLUDE`. Abstention is first class: a panel that cannot conclude says so, and that recorded absence is itself evidence rather than a silent null.

## Content hash

The canonical form is the JSON object `{id, version, question, rules, verdicts}` with no whitespace. SHA-256:

`f26b7f104a5887dd19450ac7d2b1e547e3d2485152a43b08d1fc5658bf284745`

Recompute it from the canonical form below and compare. A finding that names a different hash was made under different rules.

```json
{"id":"ruleset-claim-support","version":"1.0.0","question":"Does the cited source support the claim as stated?","rules":["AFFIRM only if a verbatim span of the source establishes the claim as stated, without inference beyond ordinary reading.","DENY if the source contradicts the claim, or if the source is about a different subject than the claim asserts.","CANNOT_CONCLUDE if the source is silent, partial, or ambiguous, or if the claim requires facts the source does not contain. Absence of support is not contradiction.","A source that merely mentions the claim's topic without establishing its assertion does not support it.","Numbers, dates and quantities in the claim must match the source exactly to AFFIRM.","Quote the shortest span that carries the finding. If no span carries it, SPAN is NONE."],"verdicts":["AFFIRM","DENY","CANNOT_CONCLUDE"]}
```

## How a finding under these rules is produced

Each adjudicator is a directory row driven through this system's own gateway. No code was deployed to add them and adding another model is one more row. Every finding records the model, the rule set hash, the quoted span, the exposure (`independent` when the adjudicator saw no other finding, `concurring` when it did), the ordering seed, and a signature. A mandatory recorded adversary argues the strongest honest case against the majority and is published whether it prevails or not.

Adjudicator rows: https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_KIMI · https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_GROK · https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_GLM · https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_LLAMA · https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_MINIMAX · adversary: https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_ADVERSARY · error-rate probe: https://miscsubjects.com/api/directory/ADJUDICATE_PROBE

## What a finding under these rules does and does not establish

It establishes that named adjudicators, under these exact rules at this exact hash, returned these findings on this claim against this source, with their exposure and ordering recorded — at a measured error rate when a probe report is attached.

It does not establish that the claim is true. No adjudication anywhere does that. A court, a journal and a clinical endpoint committee each declare rules, take findings from named parties under those rules, and preserve dissent. This is that structure, with the rule set pinned at a hash instead of scattered through case law.