7. Contradiction Handling

Status: PARTIAL FOUNDATION / FURTHER HARDENING PLANNED

Real-world reporting can conflict. Geomacro's product principle is to preserve uncertainty or disagreement rather than silently convert contradictory evidence into false precision.

Future contradiction-aware evidence envelopes can expose:

• reported range
• source-family disagreement
• official versus unofficial confirmation
• best-supported estimate where defensible
• confidence
• freshness
• unresolved contradiction state

flowchart LR
    A[Claim A] --> D[Contradiction-aware evidence]
    B[Claim B] --> D
    C[Claim C] --> D
    D --> E[Agreement state]
    D --> F[Confidence]
    D --> G[Risk context]

Contradicted evidence is not the same as missing evidence, and neither should be silently interpreted as zero risk.