{
  "handle": "Normance",
  "gloss": "Record how far a judgment rests on social default rather than on reasons its holder can state and check",
  "mechanism": "For a {{belief}}, the holder lists the reasons it can state and check without appeal to what others hold. Whatever support remains is recorded as social default: what is usual, what others believe, what a respected source said. The belief is then marked examined, mixed or default.",
  "invariants": [
    "Every listed reason can be stated and checked without appeal to what others hold.",
    "The social defaults the belief leans on are named.",
    "The belief is marked examined, mixed or default."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Default disguised as reason: 'everyone knows' is listed as a reason.",
    "Examination theatre: reasons are produced after the fact to make a default look examined."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Reasoning"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "Belongbend",
      "GenealogicalTrace#8c7f"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:38:21+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Normance#mh:SHA-256:6844deac889c8b9a75173e065de56b6833a2f8a6db372108b467c23e76b0c496",
  "sema_ref": "Normance#6844",
  "sema_stub": "6844",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "belief": "sema:Belief#mh:SHA-256:09e1c919d9829e30422f3fffee11c1af4af54ac7894d157ff371ed50b03f69b1"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Reasoning",
  "used_by": {}
}