01MAYBE
Uncertainty must have edges.
A valid Maybe identifies the disputed claim, the missing evidence, the plausible alternatives, and what would change the assessment. It prevents confidence from quietly expanding beyond the record.
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PRESERVED DECISION GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR 02 / EVIDENCE → ACT
Maybe / Therefore
The boundary and the move.
CORE STATEMENT
Maybe names the live uncertainty. Therefore names the smallest action justified across the plausible worlds that remain.
KEEP MAYBE HONEST
This chamber explains language and design lineage from before the R1 lock. It is not a current canonical inventory, live specification, test report, product roadmap, or authorization to modify or use Project Shadow. The exact R1 status ledger controls whenever this prose conflicts with a locked artifact.
BEFORE THE ACT
Ask the chamber
- 01
Is Maybe a specific evidence boundary or merely fog?
- 02
Does Therefore actually follow from the stated evidence?
- 03
Could a smaller, more reversible Therefore preserve the same benefit?
02THEREFORE
Action must fit through the evidence boundary.
Therefore is not the most dramatic conclusion compatible with the preferred story. It is the narrowest justified move: gather one missing record, preserve an option, warn, delay, escalate, test, or act within a defined ceiling.
03PUBLIC WRITING
A political form as well as a protocol primitive.
In public writing, Maybe / Therefore can separate what the record proves from what it reasonably suggests, while still refusing the false neutrality that treats every power imbalance as symmetrical.
“Maybe this is what the evidence permits. Therefore this is what we can justify doing now.”