/classify-falsification-verdict

name: classify-falsification-verdict
description: "Classify a tested claim as BROKEN, CORROBORATED, or UNFALSIFIABLE based on whether a legitimate falsifier succeeded, failed under adequate power, or cannot be specified/reached."

classify-falsification-verdict

Purpose

Classify a tested claim as BROKEN, CORROBORATED, or UNFALSIFIABLE.

Input contract

required: [claim, falsifier, test_result, adequacy_assessment]
optional: [scope, power_or_precision]
constraints: [falsifier must be legitimate and within scope]

Procedure

1. Check the falsifier and scope. 2. Assess whether the test was adequate. 3. Return exactly one permitted verdict with rationale.

Output contract

produces: [falsification_verdict, verdict_rationale, adequacy_assessment]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions]

Quality gates

• BROKEN requires a successful legitimate falsifier.
• CORROBORATED requires an adequate test that failed to falsify.
• Otherwise return UNFALSIFIABLE.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not treat an underpowered or unreachable test as corroboration.

Provenance map

• resolved: falsification-first-stress-test