# judgment lives with knowledge

One `Ishikawa → scientific method → Six Sigma` loop. The record below is the
commit message as written at the time, before the outcome was known to anyone
reading this file.

## Record — `e8e25a0`

```
EXPERIMENT: temporal adjudication moves out; the placeholder stays

The previous pass moved the type DATA and left the judgment inline, which I
stated rather than hid. This finishes it.

PREDICTIONS AND RESULTS
  P1 codegen can emit operand-type relations               TRUE
                                                           "main calls temporal:instant_plus_instant"
  P2 the affine rules are a small closed set as data       TRUE  6 rules
  P3 violations still caught at build time                 TRUE  exit=1
  P4 the reporter leaves codegen                           TRUE  4538 -> 4507
  P5 the TIME_TYPE_ERROR placeholder must STAY             TRUE

P5 is the boundary of this whole approach. The emitter has to emit SOMETHING
for an illegal expression -- it cannot emit nothing and it cannot decide what
the program meant. So the placeholder is irreducible in the same way the AST
traversal was: what moved is the judgment and the wording, not the fact that
something must be written.

The rules are affine algebra and the set is closed because there are only two
kinds of thing. An Instant is a POINT, a Duration is a DISPLACEMENT: add a
displacement to a point, subtract two points for a displacement, combine
displacements. Nothing else is meaningful, which is why the enumeration in
temporal.rel cannot grow the way an allowlist does.

A defect in my own checker, found by running it: the .rel file uses aligned
columns and my awk assumed a single space, so the message came out with the
rule key still prefixed. Same class as the multi-line header parse in the arity
pass -- formatting assumptions that only fail when you look at the output.

98/98 native, 6/6 temporal_query.sh, fixpoint ok.
```

## Record — `50425f3`

```
land temporal adjudication as a query: the emitter records, the rules are data
```