consequence-correction
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Editorial synthesis · provisional
Definition
Consequence-correction is RB3’s requirement that representations remain exposed to the effects of action and that those effects can revise what follows. It supplements rather than replaces accurate representation. The proposal locates this answerability in practical and institutional arrangements, distinguishing it from symbolic agreement, mere transparency or the existence of a feedback channel that lacks power to alter conduct.
Explanation
The archive can improve its internal coherence while weakening contact with the world that makes its outputs consequential. Consequence-correction concerns the transition in which error matters in action rather than remaining another symbolic item. The proposal does not claim that every adverse event automatically produces learning or that all feedback is reliable.
Regime analysis asks what the output is allowed to do and whether contestation survives ordinary use. Correction consequently needs a practical route from resistance to revision, not simply additional information about how a system operates. The source’s institutional cases retain their distinct stakes instead of becoming one universal technical remedy.
AB similarly makes objectivity depend on arrangements where the phenomenon can defeat expectations and consensus. This comparison does not replace evidential accuracy with whatever happens to succeed. The point is to keep representations constrained by what they affect, preserving the possibility of repair, refusal and further judgment when fluent agreement is insufficient.
Scope and attribution
Consequential resistance must be able to change action; it supplements accurate representation rather than replacing it.
AB — The Actual Book
Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.
Occurrence locators: 160, 161, 167, 168, 170; Appendix: 282, 286.
PB — The Possible Book
Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.
Occurrence locators: 64, 105.
RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations
The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.
Occurrence locators: 153, 173, 174, 186, 187, 193, 197.
Background used in the editorial explanation
General technical-ensemble and recursive-archive background is separated from passages requiring consequences to alter conduct or institutional authority.