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  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "slug": "argument-map-disagreement-40-claim-test",
  "title": "Can an Argument Map Preserve Real Disagreement? A 40-Claim Test",
  "runDate": "2026-07-28",
  "executed": true,
  "sanitized": true,
  "question": "When forty claims contain objections, rebuttals, scope limits, and unresolved conflicts, what is lost by flattening them into linear summaries?",
  "baseline": "A claim-and-support summary can appear coherent by deleting the relation that shows why a serious objection remains unresolved.",
  "protocol": [
    "Freeze forty claim packets with typed argumentative relations.",
    "Transform each packet into a flat claim summary and a relation-preserving map.",
    "Score whether objection, rebuttal, scope, and unresolved-conflict relations remain explicit."
  ],
  "sample": {
    "claimPackets": 40,
    "representations": 2
  },
  "results": {
    "flatSummariesPreservingDisagreement": 0,
    "relationMapsPreservingDisagreement": 40,
    "packetsWithUnresolvedConflict": 10
  },
  "negativeFindings": [
    "The relation-preserving map did not decide which side was right; it only prevented disagreement from disappearing."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The argument packets are designed examples and the relation labels were not independently adjudicated."
  ],
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