Claim
A verifiable proposition stored as a node in a dialectical graph
A claim is a verifiable proposition extracted from text and stored as a first-class Dialectical Graph node in a Dialectical Graph. (See Dialectical Graph Nodes.) Claims are not raw sentences; they are normalized statements with explicit scope, assumptions, and method dependencies.
Claims can be linked to evidence spans that support them, counterexamples that narrow them, attacks that challenge them, and undercuts that question their grounds. This relational structure enables knowledge to update through rebuttal rather than replacement.
Every claim has a status ): it may be tentative, contested, conditionally supported, robust, refuted, or obsolete. The status changes based on the type of rebuttal, not the number, and it can regress if the supporting structure weakens.