A specific statement.
A claim records what is being asserted, how mature the statement currently is, whether testing remains open, and which sources or evidence are actually linked to it.
CLAIMS
What is the Lab actually claiming?
A claim is a specific statement the Lab is willing to track separately from the prose around it, along with its current status, supporting evidence, and unresolved tests.
Claims stay with the research program, product, or project that gives them meaning. This page shows one current research cohort and explains how to read it; it is not a single master list of everything the Lab believes.
CURRENT PUBLIC COHORTInformation Mechanics
10 owner-local IM-C* claims
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HOW TO READ A CLAIM
Read the statement together with its status, evidence, and open tests.
Kept with the work that gives it meaning.
Research claims belong with their research program. Product and project claims should appear beside the artifacts, tests, use, and decisions that give them meaning.
One example, not a universal ledger.
This route explains the Lab's claim-tracking approach and reports one cohort that is currently suitable for public inspection.
CURRENT PUBLIC EXAMPLE
Information Mechanics is one research program's claim set—not “everything BFL claims.”
The current source belongs to Information Mechanics. It shows how one research program records claims without implying that every BFL program uses the same IDs, statuses, or evidence structure.
IM-C* namespace
Rows explicitly marked as requiring validation.
Rows with a declared source locator in the current ledger.
WHERE CLAIMS BELONG
Keep claims beside the research, evidence, and tests that can change them.
This route remains the shared explanation of claim tracking. More specific claim views should live beside the research programs, products, and projects they actually describe.