A missing measurement is not zero, and failing a benefit criterion does not automatically establish equivalence. The record should state which uncertainty is present.
KLM’s honest-null approach and Autorite’s preservation of indeterminate outcomes approach this concept through different applications.
KLM — Knowledge Layers Model
An open-source record contract and validation toolkit for knowledge provenance, evidence relationships and assessment traces in language-model outputs.
ActiveKLM: why unknown is not zero
What changes when a missing measurement becomes zero? KLM’s honest-null principle and epistemic states.
PublishedFollowing research in Autorite
Follow questions through two publication spaces into research records, and read results with their scope and limits.
PublishedFrom identity to criteria: Autorite’s philosophy
Autorite series · 2/4 · Philosophy. Revisable distinctions, relational questions and preserving the unknown.
PublishedFrom a question to a testable investigation
Autorite series · 3/4 · Method. Scope, comparisons, predeclared decisions and traceable records.
PublishedWhen does history help? The RP002A application
Autorite series · 4/4 · Application. Three synthetic worlds, seven comparisons and the completed study’s limits.
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Missing or indeterminate evidence remains explicit in the record.