negative-semantics-are-uniform-through-minimality
OUT derived (depth 6)
The system's complete negative semantics — structural absence creating premise behavior, explicit outlist defeat with automatic reversal, permanent identity effects from challenge — handle all edge cases uniformly because they derive from the same minimal primitives as all other truth evaluation, with no special-case handling for negation.
Summary
Every way the system handles negation — whether a belief is absent, explicitly defeated, or permanently marked by a challenge — works through the same simple rules that govern all other truth evaluation. There are no special-case patches for negative scenarios because they all reduce to the same minimal building blocks.
Justifications
SL — Complete negative semantics + minimality-derived uniformity → negation is uniform through minimality
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- negative-semantics-are-complete-reversible-and-recoverable — The system's negative semantics form a complete belief modification lifecycle: complete semantics cover all negation forms (structural absence and explicit outlist defeat), all defeat mechanisms reverse automatically through BFS propagation cascades, and surgical restoration hints target only cascade victims with surviving premises — every belief retraction can be undone with guided recovery.
- edge-case-uniformity-follows-from-minimality — Uniform handling of all semantic edge cases — vacuous premises, asymmetric absence, empty antecedents — is a consequence of semantic minimality: because every edge case derives from the same primitives that drive deterministic core semantics, no special-case logic exists.