self-correction-spans-creation-and-maintenance
OUT derived (depth 4)
The system self-corrects along both temporal axes: it detects and resolves active contradictions through lifecycle-safe backtracking at derivation time, and it detects and flags source material drift through conservative staleness checking over a belief's lifetime — ensuring beliefs are correct both when first derived and as their evidential basis evolves.
Summary
The system has two complementary mechanisms for keeping its knowledge accurate over time: one that fixes contradictions immediately when they arise during reasoning, and another that periodically checks whether existing conclusions still hold as the underlying evidence changes. Together these ensure that knowledge is sound both at the moment it is created and as the world moves on beneath it. This belief is currently retracted, meaning one or both of those mechanisms may not be fully validated.
Justifications
SL — Two independent self-correction mechanisms (reactive contradiction resolution and proactive staleness detection) cover the full temporal span from belief creation through ongoing maintenance
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- contradiction-resolution-is-lifecycle-safe — When contradictions are detected, the entire resolution pipeline respects node lifecycle: backtracking identifies the least-entrenched culprit premise deterministically, retraction cascades through BFS propagation that skips retracted nodes and stops on unchanged truth values, ensuring resolution terminates without disturbing lifecycle-inert nodes.
- belief-currency-is-actively-managed — The system actively manages belief currency bidirectionally: the production-ready derive pipeline safely introduces new beliefs through defensive validation, while the staleness CI gate detects drift in existing beliefs against source material — together preventing both unsafe additions and undetected obsolescence.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- deterministic-self-correction-spans-all-temporal-dimensions — Self-correction operates deterministically across both temporal dimensions — creation-time contradiction resolution and maintenance-time staleness detection — on architecturally sound foundations, meaning the system's corrective behavior is predictable at every timescale.
- edge-case-safety-spans-creation-and-maintenance — The system handles edge cases safely across both temporal dimensions: at creation time, uniform revision covers all semantic edge cases (vacuous premises, asymmetric absence, empty antecedents) through minimal primitives; at maintenance time, contradiction resolution and staleness detection actively catch drift — no edge case is safe only at one point in time.
- self-correction-has-complete-traceable-history — The system's self-correction is both temporally complete (spanning creation-time contradiction resolution and maintenance-time staleness detection) and historically traceable (nogoods recorded consistently with stable IDs), ensuring corrections can be audited and understood after the fact.
- self-correction-is-exhaustive-across-lifecycle — Self-correction is exhaustive across the complete belief lifecycle: at creation time, the derive pipeline exhaustively discovers all derivable conclusions with guaranteed termination; at maintenance time, contradiction resolution and staleness detection ensure existing beliefs remain consistent and current.