CAIN-42 invariant · E21

D12: contradictory evidence remains visible

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: contradictory evidence remains visible. It is one of 155 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 21 -- Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric. An invariant is a rule the system may never break, whatever an agent or attacker does; the test suite tries to break it across many scenarios and records the result.

Recorded detail

[
 [
  "neg"
 ],
 [
  [
   "CONFIRMATION_BIAS_CONTRADICTING_EVIDENCE_OMITTED"
  ]
 ]
]

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Related rules

D21: discovery provenance is immutable
D22: experiment provenance is immutable
D23: model provenance is immutable
D24: benchmark provenance is immutable
D25: knowledge lineage is reconstructable
D29: correlated evidence cannot masquerade as independent evidence
D46: failed research remains evidence
D53: missing provenance does not become trusted

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