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Worked Example — CNS 8.0 Resolves a Conditional Contradiction

Worked Example — CNS 8.0 Resolves a Conditional Contradiction

Input account A

SNO-A:

Claim A1: Treatment X reduces symptom Y.
Evidence: Study 1, Study 2.
Relation: Study 1 supports A1.
Relation: Study 2 supports A1.

Input account B

SNO-B:

Claim B1: Treatment X does not reduce symptom Y.
Evidence: Study 3, Study 4.
Relation: Study 3 supports B1.
Relation: Study 4 supports B1.

Step 1 — Evidential Entanglement

The evidence sets overlap through shared measurements and trial endpoints. Entanglement is moderate/high.

Step 2 — Chirality

The accounts disagree over the same predicate:

reduces(X,Y)

Evidence-polarity chirality is high because the same endpoint is interpreted in opposite directions.

Step 3 — Antagonist report

The Antagonist finds:

  • different dosage ranges;
  • different age subgroups;
  • different measurement windows;
  • no direct citation failure;
  • contradiction persists under original predicate vocabulary.

Step 4 — Zero-temperature closure

Strict closure proves:

Study1 supports reduces(X,Y) under high_dose.
Study2 supports reduces(X,Y) under high_dose.
Study3 supports not_reduces(X,Y) under low_dose.
Study4 supports not_reduces(X,Y) under low_dose.

The original predicate reduces(X,Y) remains contradictory because dose context was missing.

Step 5 — Residual tensor

Residual mass concentrates around:

subject: Treatment X
predicate: reduces
object: Symptom Y
context: dose / subgroup

Step 6 — Predicate invention

Tensor factorization proposes:

latent predicate L1: high_dose_context
latent predicate L2: low_dose_context

Grounding critic finds dosage spans in evidence atoms. The predicates pass initial grounding.

Step 7 — Synthesized SNO

SNO-C:

Claim C1 strict: Treatment X reduces symptom Y in high-dose contexts supported by Study 1 and Study 2.
Claim C2 strict: Treatment X does not show reduction of symptom Y in low-dose contexts supported by Study 3 and Study 4.
Claim C3 likely: Dose context explains the apparent contradiction.
Residual: Subgroup interaction remains unresolved.

Step 8 — Orthesis loop

Render SNO-C to language, re-ground it, and compare logic state.

If:

G(S(T_C)) ≈ T_C

and proof traces remain intact, SNO-C becomes an orthesis candidate.

Audit report

The final report includes:

  • proof traces for C1 and C2;
  • latent predicate status for dose context;
  • unresolved subgroup residual;
  • possible worlds for subgroup interaction;
  • confidence language.
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