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1 -{{warning title="Version 0.9.18 (Draft)"}}
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2 2  This document describes the **Specification** of FactHarbor. It is a working draft.
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6 6  
7 7  This section defines the technical architecture, data models, and functional requirements of FactHarbor.
8 8  
9 -== Mission ==
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11 -**FactHarbor brings clarity and transparency to a world full of unclear, controversial, and misleading information by shedding light on the context, assumptions, and evidence behind claims — empowering people to better understand and judge wisely.**
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13 -== Purpose ==
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15 -Modern society faces a deep informational crisis:
16 -* Misinformation spreads faster than corrections.
17 -* High-quality evidence is buried under noise.
18 -* Meanings shift depending on context — but this is rarely made explicit.
19 -* Users lack tools to understand *why* information conflicts.
20 -* Claims are evaluated without clearly defined assumptions.
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22 -FactHarbor introduces structure, transparency, and comparative reasoning. It provides:
23 -* Multiple valid scenarios for ambiguous claims.
24 -* Transparent assumptions, definitions, and boundaries.
25 -* Full evidence provenance.
26 -* Likelihood-based verdicts (one per scenario).
27 -* Versioning and temporal change tracking.
28 -* Hybrid AI–human collaboration.
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30 30  == Core Concepts ==
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32 -* **Claim**: A statement needing structured interpretation.
33 -* **Scenario**: Definitions, assumptions, boundaries, and context.
34 -* **Evidence**: Information supporting or contradicting a scenario.
35 -* **Verdict**: Likelihood estimate based on weighted evidence **for a specific scenario**.
36 -* **Summary View**: User-facing overview.
37 -* **AKEL**: AI subsystem for drafting and assistance (human supervised).
38 -* **Federation**: Decentralized nodes hosting datasets.
39 -* **Truth Landscape**: The aggregation of multiple scenario-dependent verdicts showing where a claim is plausible.
40 -* **Time Evolution**: Versioning of all entities allowing historical views.
11 +FactHarbor structures reasoning about claims into transparent, inspectable steps:
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13 +* **Claims and Claim Clusters** – people submit real-world statements; similar phrasings are grouped.
14 +* **Scenarios** – each claim is evaluated under clearly defined contexts (assumptions, definitions, boundaries).
15 +* **Evidence** – sources and data are collected and linked to specific scenarios.
16 +* **Verdicts** – **There is no single verdict for a claim.** Instead, there is a distinct verdict for **each scenario** against which the claim is evaluated.
17 +* **Truth Landscape** – the aggregation of these multiple scenario-dependent verdicts shows where (under which assumptions) a claim is plausible and where it is not.
18 +* **Time Evolution** – all important entities (claims, scenarios, evidence links, verdicts) are versioned.
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42 42  == Functional Lifecycle ==
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44 44  The system follows a six-step lifecycle:
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46 46  1. **Claim submission**: Automatic extraction and normalisation; Cluster detection.
47 47  2. **Scenario building**: Clarifying definitions and assumptions; AI proposals with human approval.
48 48  3. **Evidence handling**: AI-assisted retrieval; Human assessment of reliability; Explicit scenario linking.
49 -4. **Verdict creation**: AI-generated draft verdicts; Human refinement; Reasoning explanations.
27 +4. **Verdict creation**: AI-generated draft verdicts **per scenario**; Human refinement; Reasoning explanations.
50 50  5. **Public presentation**: Concise summaries; Truth Landscape comparison; Deep dives.
51 51  6. **Time evolution**: Versioning of all entities; Re-evaluation triggers when evidence changes.
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