设计可共存争议的问责记录,确保中立性不依赖任何一方解释。
Neutral Substrates: A Design Constraint for Shared Records Under Persistent Interpretive Disagreement
- 用可追溯的陈述层保留各方主张,不预设因果或规范判断。
- 中立性在设计时即保证,只要基础层仅包含共同认可的指称与归属关系。
- 适合跨框架协作的问责系统,如司法、政策审计等场景。
当多方在因果关系、责任归属或规范解释上存在持久分歧时,共享问责记录仍需保留各方提出主张的来源与出处。中立性不能通过省略争议内容实现,也不能通过确立单一解释作为基础。本文提出‘中立基底’概念:一种共享表示层,在不承诺具体因果或规范命题的前提下提供稳定参照。其核心设计约束是:当因果与规范命题在可接受框架间具有争议,且指称与归属关系为共同基础时,该基底的中立性在设计阶段成立,当且仅当其基础层仅限于那些由该共同基础固定的指称与归属命题。因果与规范内容仍可表达,但仅以可追溯的断言形式出现,标明来源框架、主体、机构或文档。所用表示机制包括重化、归属与溯源。贡献在于提出一个可验证的基础层约束条件,并明确其适用前提与边界。中立基底足以维护问责,但不将任一方解释固化为底层承诺。当指称体系或归属基础本身存在争议时,该约束不适用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Shared accountability records are often used by parties who may never agree about causation, responsibility, or normative interpretation. For such records, neutrality cannot be achieved by omitting contested information, because accountability requires preserving the claims parties made, with their sources and provenance. Nor can neutrality be achieved by asserting one contested interpretation as the shared base. This paper defines a neutral substrate as a shared representational layer that provides stable reference while making no object-level substrate-layer commitments to causal or normative propositions. The central design constraint is that, when causal and normative propositions are contestable across admissible frameworks and the substrate's referential commitments are common ground, the substrate's neutrality is guaranteed at design time if and only if its foundational layer is restricted to those referential commitments and attribution propositions whose attributional basis is fixed by them. Causal and normative content may still be represented, but not as object-level foundational-layer commitments: it may appear there only as the content of attributed assertions with provenance, made by some identified framework, source, agent, institution, record, or document. The representational machinery used here is standard: reification, attribution, and provenance. The contribution is the constraint: a checkable condition on the foundational layer of a shared record, stated together with the assumptions it depends on and the boundary condition under which the constraint does not apply. A neutral substrate says enough to preserve accountability, but it does not turn one party's interpretation into an object-level substrate-layer commitment. The constraint does not apply at that layer when the referential regime or attributional basis is contested among the frameworks in play.
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