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CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect
The maintainer could not tell whether "error", "failure", "finding" or
"correction" referred to the game's design, our formalisation of it, the
code, the measuring apparatus, or the sentences we wrote. Three review
rounds produced twenty-odd defect statements spanning five systems, all
called errors. The confusion was ours.

specs/Taxonomy.md, grounded in named canon rather than invented here: six
strata from Sargent's problem entity / conceptual model / computerized
model, extended where a simulation-V&V frame stops — we also own an
instrument and an account. The two relations are what was missing:
GAME<->MODEL is validation, MODEL<->ENGINE is verification, and nearly
every argument about "our bug or their gap" was that distinction going
unnamed.

Fault/error/failure from Avizienis et al., applied within a stratum, plus
the rule that explains the review history: a failure in one stratum is a
fault in the next. And it finally defines the family ADR-0018 could only
point at — a wrong-subject error is an ACCOUNT failure with no INSTRUMENT
fault, which is why tests never catch them.

MDA supplies the game-facing layers and one hard limit: our panels measure
dynamics, our trial logs sample aesthetics, and a win rate does not answer
"is it fun".

specs/Positioning.md names the field fairly — Ludii is the closest
relative and the right benchmark — and the four differentiators, each
already built rather than aspired to. Clay-borg is a design-evidence
instrument; anyone can produce the number. Three tracks named and none
started: a second game, game theory as the lens on dynamics, and
assimilated knowledge about why games work.

Track A is the falsifier for the whole positioning: every abstraction here
has exactly one instance, which by our own rule may mean invented rather
than observed.

Chaos window 3 closes at 12 declarations with one override that changed
nothing. Its verdict is due and is deliberately not written here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00
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ArchitectureBlueprint.md specs/Ornamentation.md: what a game is besides its rules 2026-08-07 21:16:34 +02:00
ArchitectureRuntime.md T01: audit every InnerLoop rule, and make the checkable ones executable 2026-07-31 09:16:00 +02:00
ChaosRollHistory.md CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect 2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00
CostAccounting.md CB-WP-0004 T04: fact registry and make facts-check — DFD gets a gate 2026-07-31 10:24:39 +02:00
FindingRegister.md CB-WP-0037 T02: the engine's rules against the edition's 2026-08-08 00:21:40 +02:00
GameDesign.md CB-WP-0030: a control for the wrong-subject family 2026-08-07 11:35:41 +02:00
GameKernel.md CB-WP-0019 T01/T02: AM-4b asks what a contributor acquires 2026-08-03 19:04:54 +02:00
GroundRules.md CB-WP-0026: collect the rulings -- ten answers that arrived and were never applied 2026-08-05 16:13:37 +02:00
InnerLoop.md ADR-0017: window 2's verdict — the mechanism worked, my account of it did 2026-08-07 10:55:54 +02:00
InnerLoopReference.md ADR-0017: window 2's verdict — the mechanism worked, my account of it did 2026-08-07 10:55:54 +02:00
MetricsAndScenarios.md CB-WP-0023: SOLVE is legal only where it can do something 2026-08-04 00:18:40 +02:00
Ornamentation.md CB-WP-0037 done: T03 classification and T04 evidence 2026-08-08 00:33:24 +02:00
OrnamentRegister.md CB-WP-0037 done: T03 classification and T04 evidence 2026-08-08 00:33:24 +02:00
Positioning.md CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect 2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00
RetrospectiveAnalysis.md CB-WP-0025 T05: the search works, and it falsified this pass's own 2026-08-05 19:10:25 +02:00
SessionShape.md CB-WP-0013-T01: SH-3 refuses a window that cannot carry a rate 2026-08-02 07:23:04 +02:00
Taxonomy.md CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect 2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00