Normalized Proposition
A standardized claim extracted from natural language text
A normalized proposition is a claim that has been extracted from natural language and rewritten in a standardized form with explicit scope, assumptions, and dependencies. Normalization removes ambiguity so that claims can be compared, linked, and challenged consistently.
The same idea can be expressed in many ways. Normalization maps surface variations to a canonical form so that two papers saying the same thing in different words can be recognized as supporting each other.
In a Dialectical Graph, normalized propositions are the claim nodes that participate in knowledge synthesis. They are distinct from evidence spans, which preserve the original wording, and from prose in the narrative layer, which is generated for human reading.