{
  "handle": "Reasonfade",
  "gloss": "A judgment kept after its reasons are lost is held as an assumption until the reasons are restored",
  "mechanism": "A retained judgment is checked for its reasons. If the reasons cannot be recovered from the record, the judgment is marked as reason-faded and held as an {{assumption}} rather than a finding, until its reasons are restored or it is decided again.",
  "invariants": [
    "A judgment whose reasons cannot be recovered is held as an assumption, not a finding.",
    "The mark is cleared only by restoring the reasons or by deciding again."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Authority substitution: the judgment's age or source is offered in place of its reasons.",
    "Compaction loss: a summary keeps the decision and drops why it was made."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Memory"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "BeliefTracking#c78d",
      "TraceBelief#7b8a"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:30:54+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Reasonfade#mh:SHA-256:3ac3e8afee958a451985a4e1abb4837e2271d7b05818a92119d4ed5a07c0816d",
  "sema_ref": "Reasonfade#3ac3",
  "sema_stub": "3ac3",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "assumption": "sema:Assumption#mh:SHA-256:d99bf34ffd59aa1c8ca25f5477b1df297b8a2f9cf992c242de73d13aef88a097"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Memory",
  "used_by": {}
}