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Warm the evidentiality pamphlet under the manual's rules#474

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The first of three pamphlet warmth passes, bringing the retrofitted pamphlets under the rules the manual sweep established: the waiver ceiling, imagery on design-intent verbs, and the additive standard. The #458 accuracy pass is untouched in substance; this pass changes register only. Six of eleven files, under twenty lines.

The hedge work

The pamphlet carried roughly twelve no-guarantee tails, one after nearly every particle's lesson, the per-entry disclaimer heartbeat at pamphlet scale. The important nuance: source-is-not-truth is this pamphlet's actual subject, so the treatment is conversion and consolidation, not deletion.

  • The title page's three-item litany ("not a guarantee of truth, a grade of confidence, or a certificate of good faith") folds into one positive boundary: "a source marker says how a claim arrived, and nothing else about it."
  • Part 8's validator close ("It cannot inspect the wet path, overhear the message, or know whether the speaker saw the snake. That last comparison remains part of speaking.") stays untouched as the work's one full-strength statement, already its best sentence.
  • Four generic tails convert or fall: parts 1 and 2 end their founding passages on what the particles present rather than what they fail to certify; part 3's "they do not decide whether the choice was good" becomes the offer, "a recorded route is one the listener can walk back along"; part 5 loses "It does not make the interpretation courteous or correct."
  • Kept as content: part 5's anti-ranking sentences (the exact repair Retrofit the evidentiality pamphlet against current canon #458 existed to make), the ho-confidence boundary at ho's own lesson, part 6's memory distinction, and the appendix's reference-register statements.

The additions

  • The well becomes the image it already almost was. The title page now closes its scene with "One well, four worn paths. This pamphlet walks them one at a time."
  • The vista replaces the flattest promise in the work ("the four particles should be easier to hear and place"): the four particles are "a small, complete map of the ways a claim can reach a speaker: through the senses, through reasoning, through another person, or through expectation, and the whole of it is four syllables long."

Judgment calls

  • The route and path family now carries three deliberate uses (the worn paths, walking them, walking a recorded route back). It is the pamphlet's own spine image rather than a stamp, but it is flagged for the same reason the nineteen-sounds bookend was.
  • The four-syllables vista is the same move as the manual's closed-inventory vistas, counted as reinforcement under the earlier ruling.

Audit

Full protocol. All hard-zero rows at zero, no new Phi citations, phonetic-neighbor baseline in sync. Validator: 1275 entries, 0 errors, 0 warnings. Named finding from the draft loop: the first conversion drafted for part 1 ("what moved between the lines is not the weather but the speaker's route") duplicated the shape of part 4's existing close ("The tree has not moved between the sentences; only the source named by the present speaker has") and was cut to a plain trim instead.

The three_slots and spoken_punctuation passes follow as their own PRs after this one is reviewed.

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