removal-effects-are-fully-reported-and-recoverable
OUT derived (depth 5)
Every belief removal — whether intentional retraction or contradiction-triggered backtracking — provides three simultaneous guarantees: complete cascade coverage (transitive propagation captures every truth-value change), accurate effect reporting (structured before/after diffs reflect all affected nodes), and surgical recovery guidance (restoration hints target only cascade victims with surviving premises).
Summary
When something gets removed from the system, the removal process should fully track every downstream consequence, accurately report what changed, and tell you exactly how to undo the damage if needed. This claim is currently unsupported because one of its foundations — that retraction reporting reliably captures all cascade paths — has issues with how outlist-mediated dependencies are tracked, meaning some removal effects could go unreported.
Justifications
SL — Complete cascade coverage ensures nothing is missed, effect reporting ensures full visibility, and recovery guidance ensures recoverability — together they make belief removal a fully transparent and reversible operation.
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- all-removals-provide-reporting-and-recovery — Every belief removal — whether intentional retraction (structured before/after diffs with surgical restoration hints targeting only cascade victims with surviving premises) or automated contradiction resolution (consistent nogood records with traceable dependency-directed backtracking to least-entrenched culprits) — provides both complete effect reporting and actionable recovery guidance.
- retraction-reporting-reflects-complete-cascades — The retraction reporting system provides accurate effect coverage across all cascade paths — structured before/after diffs capture every truth-value change, restoration hints target only cascade victims with surviving premises, and the cascade itself transitively reaches all dependent nodes — but only when the dependents index tracks all relationship types including outlists, ensuring no outlist-mediated cascade victims produce unreported effects.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- all-modifications-converge-with-reporting-and-recovery — Every modification — addition, removal, or correction — converges to a deterministic stable state with complete effect reporting and guided recovery, ensuring the system's operational history is fully transparent and every change can be understood and reversed.