GCTS: Grounded Chiral Tensor Synthesis.
Evidence atom: A traceable evidence unit with source ID, span or datum, temporal scope, quality, access path, and metadata.
Record-access state: A structured description of whether an expected record is available, inaccessible, sealed, withheld, destroyed, not generated, or unknown.
Institutional incentive profile: A model of actor role, evidence control, exposure, disclosure incentive, concealment incentive, concealment penalty, and source reliability.
Strict proof: Zero-temperature closure from resolvable evidence references and proof traces.
Likely truth: Posterior mass across admissible structured worlds. Direct LLM confidence is excluded from this score, and strict proof is emitted separately.
World view: A structured possible state containing accepted facts, rule subsets, latent predicates, proof traces, assumptions, access/missingness model, and institutional-incentive hypotheses.
Multiverse view: A ranked distribution over possible worlds rather than a single forced synthesis.
Chirality: Mismatch between language plausibility, logic/proof structure, evidence support, and access/missingness structure.
Access chirality: A mismatch where a narrative implies an access state that breaks under structured modeling.
Orthesis: The stable structured state that survives grounding and rendering without losing proof support, likely-truth support, access-state coherence, or uncertainty.
Oracle boundary: The rule that offline labels and expert judgments may calibrate or evaluate the system, but runtime truth ranking must be produced from evidence, access states, rules, and calibrated parameters.
Record-contingent claim: A claim whose status depends on an expected but unavailable, controlled, sealed, withheld, destroyed, or otherwise unresolved record.
Evidence of absence: An expected record or observation exists and affirmatively negates a claim.
Absence of evidence: No available supporting evidence has been found.
Suppression uncertainty: Uncertainty caused by possible strategic non-production or selective disclosure.