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The Claim Being Tested

The last piece in this series argued that a system with no declared exclusions will eventually be asked to do everything, because nothing inside it has grounds to refuse. The example was a single line: --is-modal-open sitting next to --spacing-md, syntactically identical, semantically nothing alike.

That's a claim about systems in general. Here's what it looks like inside a file that actually exists, with a mechanism that actually depends on the boundary holding.

The Artifact