Mind · Reasoning
Verification
Confirming alignment with truth or spec
Definition
Mechanism
The cognitive process of confirming that a claim or Artifact adheres to its Spec or to reality, regarding an assertion that already exists. Runs via a Check, which may return Unknown. Distinct from Validate, which is syntactic conformance to a schema; Verification is semantic and may reference reality rather than a document.
Risks
Failure modes
False positive
artifact accepted despite not meeting spec.
False negative
valid artifact rejected due to overly strict or misapplied criteria.
Relationships
Builds on
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References
A conclusion inherits the verification assurance of its weakest load-bearing premise.
Structured causal discovery via variable isolation
Make a sudden advance reliable under varied conditions before building on it
Infrastructure
Test the exact artifact consumers receive, and bind the evidence to its digest
Bind an implementation to an external specification by a pinned version, a two-way map and a ledger of deviations
Check the specification itself against intent and its own consequences before trusting conformance to it
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