Concepts
Artificial Fallibility is the umbrella concept of the programme. The remaining concepts are grouped by the paper that introduces them. Each paper heading links to the corresponding entry on the Papers page.
Core concept
From Architectures of Error →
From Coherent Without Grounding, Grounded Without Success →
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Bidirectional Coherence Paradox
I introduce what I call the Bidirectional Coherence Paradox: competence and grounding not only dissociate but invert across epistemic conditions.
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Epistemic Triangle
I propose the Epistemic Triangle model, which explains how observability determines whether prior-dominated or signal-dominated reasoning prevails, producing qualitatively different failure modes.
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Integrated Justification
I propose integrated justification—a tripartite framework requiring coherence, grounding, and a proper basing relation—as a minimal standard for evaluating artificial epistemic agents.
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Observability Gap
Observability Gap: The discrepancy between the causal information required for valid inference and the information actually available through observable signals.
From Code Structure Evolution →
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Code Structure Evolution
This paper develops the concept of Code Structure Evolution (CSE) to analyze this phenomenon.
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Decision-bearing Branches
A decision-bearing branch is a point in the agent session at which one course of action was selected from a set of plausible alternatives, where the choice has structural, behavioural, or interpretive consequences for a future maintainer.
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Epistemic Drift
What I call epistemic drift: the degradation of justificatory continuity across structural change, whether or not this degradation is immediately reflected in invariant violation, traceability loss, structural incoherence, or functional failure.
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Epistemic Point of No Return (k*)
I call k* the epistemic point of no return.
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Justificatory Reconstruction Cost (R)
Let R(Kt) denote the justificatory reconstruction cost: the cognitive and temporal effort required for a human collective H to reconstruct, from the available code and ancillary artifacts, a justificatory state satisfying J(H, Kt) ≥ τ.