Status Transition Rules
What triggers movement between claim states in a dialectical graph
Status transition rules define what moves a claim from one state to another in the claim status taxonomy. Transitions depend on the type of challenge, not the count: a single decisive counterexample matters more than many unconvincing objections.
Key transitions include: tentative → contested is registered, contested → conditionally supported or clarifying assumptions, conditionally supported → robust, robust → refuted, and any state → obsolete severs the claim's meaning.
These rules are part of the epistemic protocol layer in Coscientist. They make knowledge updating explicit and auditable rather than implicit in prose.